Beyond rock music, the ’70s were full of iconic disco songs that dominated the club dance floors, and the Trammps released a hit that would gain traction on the charts and in a John Travolta classic.
“Disco Inferno” was released by the Trammps in 1976 as a single before it was also released as part of their studio album of the same name. Trammps keyboard player Ron Kersey wrote this song with Leroy Green, and they were originally inspired by a film. The track was based on the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. Led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, the film focused on a fire breaking out underneath a ballroom dance floor.
The track itself wasn’t a success when it was originally released. According to Tom Moulton, they had committed an error during the mixing of the track, with the Dolby noise reduction being set incorrectly. Engineer Jay Mark noticed the mistake and remixed the track, but it led to more people’s intersted in listening.
The Trammps song ended up topping the U.S. Disco chart at No. 1 for six weeks in 1977, and landed at No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite its chart-topping status, it still wasn’t entirely seen as a hit until 1978. Travolta’s iconic 1977 Saturday Night Fever film led “Disco Inferno” to become a dance floor staple.
“When we put out ‘Disco Inferno,’ it didn’t do well, at first! Our attorney, David Steinberg, made a deal when they were putting ‘Saturday Night Fever’ together to use the song, because they needed another song, and luckily they remembered ‘Disco Inferno,'” said drummer Earl Young, according to The Philadelphia Tribune.
“They put it in the movie, and wherever that movie went, it made us go around the world too! It made us popular too — that one song!”
Saturday Night Fever would become a cult classic dance film featuring some of the era’s iconic groups as part of its soundtrack. Thanks to the film, “Disco Fever” resurged in popularity upon its re-release and landed at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The soundtrack even included the almost 11-minute studio version that did better than its 3:35-minute radio edit.
The Trammps found themselves a generational hit, which was covered decades later in 1993 by Tina Turner. She recorded her cover for her album What’s Love Got to Do with It, and the track did well on the charts overseas. A few years later, Cyndi Lauper also released her version in 1999 after having performed it live in New York a year earlier. Her version landed at No. 8 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
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