| You Make Me Feel Like Dancing | |
| Cover: | Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Leo Sayer |
| Album: | Endless Flight |
| B-Side: | Magdalena |
| Released: | October 1976 |
| Length: | 3:41 2:50 (7" version) |
| Label: | Chrysalis (UK) Warner Bros. (US) |
| Producer: | Richard Perry |
| Prev Title: | Moonlighting |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | When I Need You |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a song credited to British-Australian singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight.
Ray Parker Jr. claims that the song was stolen from him, after he played it in a studio for an executive who promised he would get credit. Parker received no royalties and no credit for that song. “It’s not Leo’s fault,” he told Variety. “He tried to cut six of seven more of my songs just because he felt so bad.”[1]
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart,[2] making it his first top single in the United States, and reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song of 1977. Credited songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in Best R&B Song. Parker has stated that he was the original songwriter and that when he gave the tune as a demo his accreditation as such was missed.[4] Like other Sayer songs from that time, it features extensive use of the singer's falsetto voice, a very popular vocal register in disco-era songs. Sayer performed the song in the second episode of season 3 of The Muppet Show.
| Chart (1976–1977) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] [6] | 2 |
| South Africa (Springbok Radio)[7] | 3 |
| Switzerland (Sonntagsblick Hitparade)[8] | 18 |
| Chart (1976) | Rank |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report) | 84 |
| Canada[9] | 99 |
| Chart (1977) | Rank | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] | 49 | |
| Canada[11] | 30 | |
| New Zealand[12] | 27 | |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[13] | 13 |
