Kool & The Gang have been together for ... over 45 years. They’ve been known as Kool & The Gang for the past 40 years ... They scored this early TOP 5 funky Disco smash that had the whole nation movin’ to the "Jungle Boogie".

4 OUT OF 5 - Eleventyseven's 5TH smash since 2006 is their 4TH # 1 smash in a row !

... Disco singer-songwriter Alicia Bridges was the star of one of the hottest hits on the radio and in the roller discos. She co-wrote this long-running gold-certified TOP 5 Disco smash that spent more than 7 months on the Billboard Hot 100 ...

WORD PLAY - I don't know "Where To Start", but I'm "Trying" to "Forget And Not Slow Down".

... High atop the Billboard Hot 100 ... was this gem from British singer-songwriter Leo Sayer. It’s the biggest smash of his still-going 36-year music career, and it’s a Grammy Award winner. Here’s his gold-certified # 1 Disco smash ...

SWITCH HITS - Eleventyseven and Philmont (both from the Carolinas) switch it up this week.

... The Commodores made their U.S. pop chart debut with ... an all instrumental jam that totally kicked-it on the funky disco ’round. Check out a young 25-year-old Lionel Richie ... Also ... the clavinet work. It sounds like a ... "Machine Gun" !

I AM EMPIRE - Austin, Andrew, Joshua, Dan, and Eric are the hard-rocking band from San Jose CA.

... It was a blatant rip-off of ... "Saturday Night Fever" starring song-and-dance man David Naughton in John Travolta’s role as a disco dancer by night - and an ice cream parlor man by day ... It’s the ... theme song and credits for "Makin’ It" !

PHILMONT - Their previous radio hit "The Difference" is the 4TH biggest smash of all of 2009 !

Flashback to the Spring of 1977 ... ABBA (from Sweden) weren’t really a Disco act, but they got with the times when they had to. The result was their only # 1 smash stateside and perhaps their most memorable anthem of the era ...

RUTH - Return Us To Him. It's a tough world out there. Keep on "Rolling With The Punches".

... It’s the Summer of 1974 ... and I’m just an innocent 7-year-old kid hangin’ out with my lovable miniature sheep dog ... I’m listening to WWDC AM-1260 on my transistor radio, and this smash is playing as afternoon deejay Lou Katz rollz the hitz ...

VEHEMENT - Showbread are back with the follow-up to their # 1 screamer "The Sky".

During the Spring of 1979 I was in the 6TH grade ... Some songs remind me of the bad times, but whenever I hear this song play it reminds me of some of those good times that I lived back then during my active preteen years ...

NEW AT THE TOP ! - Relient K's 8TH hit since 2005 is their 2ND # 1 smash. ("Forgiven" was their 1ST.)

One of the earliest movies that I can ever remember watching at the movie theatre when I was a little kid was ... "Saturday Night Fever" ... It featured the music of The Bee Gees, and together they totally defined the Disco era of the late-1970s ...

STILL THE SAME ! - Can Relient K crack the top spot next week ?

... That ... turned out to be one of the last remaining Top 10 Disco hits during its dying days. For a Disco song from Elton John this one was surprisingly a bit on the mellow side. Here’s one of my favourite Elton John songs of all-time ...

SAME ! - No change from last week. Philmont's 2ND # 1 smash this year !

... Let us now flashback ... to the hot Summer of 1975 ... when 35-year-old Van McCoy took "The Hustle" straight to # 1 ... Many from the time would argue that it’s one of the first great Disco songs of the era. I agree.

NEW ! - It's a topsy-turvy week as new music takes over the top.

A soundtrack of the 100 greatest Disco songs ever made would simply not be complete or even accurate if it did not include this rousing smash from the late Dan Hartman. He was a successful singer, songwriter, and producer ...

INSTANT REPLAY - Last week's Top 5 is this week's Top 5.

... I give you the Detroit Spinners - still going strong after nearly 50 years in the biz. Here’s their 1976-1977 # 2 gold Disco smash that’s all about the infamous "Rubberband Man". Here’s how they stretched it out on ... "Midnight Special" ...

DEJA VU - House Of Heroes reclaims the top spot.

... He’s ... Leif Garrett, and over 30 years ago he was one of the hottest television, movie, and music stars on the face of this Earth. He was a Rock, Pop, and Disco superstar with no less than 10 Billboard HOT 100 hits from 1977 to 1982 ...

SAME - No change from last week.

Here’s a classic track ... It’s 23-year-old (at the time) Walter Murphy with his modern (at the time) disco remake of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s "Symphony No. 5" from 170 years earlier ! It’s "A Fifth Of Beethoven" ... on the ... "Midnight Special" ...

NEW # 1 SMASH ! - I am alive !

... The Village People ... released a half a dozen albums during a short period of time from 1977 to 1980, and they were one of the hottest Disco groups around ... their biggest albums ... "Go West" - included this 1979 Disco smash.

STAGNATION - It's no movement this week as last week's chart is this week's chart.

Guys - It’s time to grab that girl and hop aboard the "Love Train". The next stop that we make - will be love. Don’t you know that it’s time to get on board ? ... Here’s how America danced to ... the "Love Train" on the "Soul Train".

NEW # 1 SMASH - After 11 weeks in a row at # 1 Air 5 drops this week.

... 31 years ago this weekend in July of 1978 this song was making its rapid ascent up Casey Kasem’s "American Top 40" countdown. It would eventually reach # 8 and become Barry Manilow’s 5TH gold pop smash in less than 4 years ...

... Disco music was still growing up during the Summer of 1976, and 26-year-old Memphis Tennessee Radio Deejay Rick Dees (one of my personal all-time ‘American Idols’) decided that the time was right to gather his ‘Cast Of Idiots’ ...

... The first time this single was released here in the U.S. it was surprisingly a retail and radio flop. It didn’t even reach the TOP 40. And then came along the release of the box office smash "Saturday Night Fever" at the end of 1977. It was included ...