In 1975, K-Tel issued their first album with the word disco in the title: Disco Mania. By HERC's count, the label would go on to release five more disco-named albums between 1975-1979, all of which will be featured on this site in the future. Don't let the title of this one throw you - while there are 16 disco tracks (two of them with the word disco in their title) on Disco Mania the other 25% of the album is rock:
HERC has added two more charts in the table below: The Cashbox Weekly Top 100 [CB] and the WLS Weekly Survey [WLS]. (HERC went back and recalculated the scores of all previously featured albums using the new data and while he didn't post new tables for each album (yet), the scores have been updated in the Top 10 rankings on the left.) After all the math, Disco Mania emerged as #3 on The K-Tel Scale Top 10.
Disco Mania [1975]
| K-tel Scale: |
27.80
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| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| The Hustle | Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Walkin' In Rhythm | Blackbyrds | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | ||
| Rockin' Chair | Gwen McCrae | 9 | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Don't Call Us, We'll Call You | Sugarloaf feat. Jerry Corbetta | 9 | 12 | 5 | |||
| Lady | Styx | 6 | 6 | 2 | |||
| I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo (Doo Dat Dance) | Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes | 23 | 33 | 7 | 34 | ||
| Disco Baby | The Stylistics | ||||||
| Disco Queen | Hot Chocolate | 28 | 40 | 21 | |||
| Hey You | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | 21 | 16 | 9 | |||
| Never Can Say Goodbye | Gloria Gaynor | 9 | 34 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 8 |
| Doctor's Orders | Carol Douglas | 11 | 9 | 10 | 7 | ||
| Shame Shame Shame | Shirley & Company | 12 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Kung Fu Fighting | Carl Douglas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Spirit Of The Boogie | Kool & the Gang | 35 | 1 | 27 | |||
| Will It Go Round In Circles | Billy Preston | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Rock Your Baby | George McCrae | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | |
| Swing Your Daddy | Jim Gilstrap | 10 | |||||
| Rockin' Soul | Hues Corporation | 18 | 6 | 9 | 28 | ||
| Rock And Roll All Nite | Kiss | 12 | 17 | 6 | |||
| Express | B.T. Express | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | |
For the Canadian release of the album, the title was altered to Disco Rock. Half of Disco Mania's songs were held over, joined by ten other songs, only one of which seemed to suffer "the Canadian Curse"*. Charity Brown's cover of "Take Me In Your Arms" peaked at #5 on the RPM Top Singles charts yet failed to crossover down in the States. One reason: The Doobie Brothers had their own cover of the Motown song on the charts at the time. They peaked at #11 in the States and in the Top 30 in Canada. Yet despite the big goose egg that song brought to the album's performance on The K-Tel Scale, it still ended up with a score above 30; good enough to land atop the leaderboard.
Disco Rock [1975]
| K-tel Scale: |
30.40
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| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| Jive Talkin' | Bee Gees | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Rockin' Chair | Gwen McCrae | 9 | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Shining Star | Earth, WInd & Fire | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Lovin' You | Minnie Riperton | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Radar Love | Golden Earring | 13 | 10 | 4 | |||
| Lady Marmalade | LaBELLE | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Hey You | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | 21 | 16 | 9 | |||
| Take Me In Your Arms | Charity Brown | ||||||
| Will It Go Round In Circles | Billy Preston | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Get Down Get Down (Get On The Floor) | Joe Simon | 8 | 1 | 9 | |||
| The Hustle | Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Walkin' In Rhythm | Blackbyrds | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | ||
| Express | B.T. Express | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | |
| Up In A Puff Of Smoke | Polly Brown | 16 | 29 | 16 | 9 | ||
| Dynomite | Tony Camillo's Bazuka | 10 | 29 | 12 | 8 | ||
| I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me Too | Barry White | 40 | 4 | 32 | |||
| Brazil | The Ritchie Family | 11 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |
| Bad Luck | Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes | 15 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Disco Queen | Hot Chocolate | 28 | 40 | 21 | |||
| Don't Call Us, We'll Call You | Sugarloaf feat. Jerry Corbetta | 9 | 12 | 5 | |||
* - there is no such thing as a "Canadian Curse"; it is merely HERC's poorly chosen phrase to describe the phenomenon of a hit song in Canada failing to reach American charts.
In 1997, a ten song Disco Mania CD was issued by K-Tel featuring just one track carried over from the vinyl version:
Eight of the remaining songs actually came out after the original Disco Mania album; the oldest songs are from 1975 while the latest one is from 1980. Seven of the disc's ten songs were Pop and Cashbox #1s while five songs also achieved the top spot on the R&B and Disco charts. Loaded with so many Number One tunes pushed this disc's K-Tel Scale score to an unsanctioned all-time high of 39.10.
Disco Mania [1997]
| K-tel Scale: |
39.10
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| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| A Fifth Of Beethoven | Walter Murphy & his Big Apple Band | 1 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 4 | |
| (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | |
| Boogie Oogie Oogie | A Taste Of Honey | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| The Hustle | Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| In The Navy | Village People | 3 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 10 | |
| Last Dance | Donna Summer | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |
| Never Knew Love Like This Before | Stephanie Mills | 6 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 11 |
| Fly, Robin, Fly | Silver Convention | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| Funkytown | Lipps, Inc. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Ring My Bell | Anita Ward | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
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