Boogie Oogie Oogie was the first single from the self-titled debut album, A Taste of Honey. It was their biggest hit single spending three weeks at Billboard’s Single Chart at Number 1.

The group formed in Los Angeles, California, and originally consisted of Janice Marie Johnson (vocals, bass), Hazel Payne (vocals, guitar), Perry Kibble (keyboards) and Donald Johnson (drums).

Fans were shocked when they first saw the group perform on stage. Here was two beautiful girls standing on stage with guitars playing soulful disco type licks.

The idea of the song came one night when playing to a unenthused crowd Janice Johnson yelled out, “If you think that you’re too cool to boogie, we’ve got news for you! Everyone here tonight is going to boogie, and you’re no exception to the rule.” From this beginning Johnson and Perry L. Kibble wrote the song.

They won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Patti Smith was the leader of the group that shares her name the Patti Smith Group. They signed in 1975 to Arista Records. Because the Night was from their second album Easter, their most commercially successful album partly due to this top 20 single.

At the same time the group was recording Easter, Bruce Springsteen was working on his album Darkness at the Edge of Town. Springsteen wrote a couple of songs in the style of the Patti Smith Group. Smith reworked his composition of this song so that it came from the female point of view and not the working man view that Springsteen was working on.

Springsteen never released the song on a studio album, but he did work it into his tour and a live version appeared on Live/1975–85.

Gerry Rafferty had been part of the Duo Stealer’s Wheel along with Joe Egan. When the duo separated it was not without problems. Rafferty had been banned from the recording studio for three years after the break up.

Baker Street was the first released single from the Album City to City. The single reached Number 3 in the UK and Number 2 in the US. The Album hit Number 1 in the US.

Two version were released of the song. The Album version was 6:01 while the single release was 4:08.

Baker Street is a real street in the city of London and is famous as being the street where Sherlock Holmes, the detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, resides.

Chic may have began as a black rock band, but they became an act that helped define the Disco Era. In 1978 they recorded what would become the most popular disco song of the era.

The signature line, ‘Aaaaahh, freak out!’ came because the writers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards couldn’t use their original idea in a 1970′s era song. Their original was, ‘Aaaaahh, fuck off! as a protest at the way they were treated at a 1977 New Year’s Eve event.

“Le Freak” was the first song to be knocked out of (and return to) the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 three times. It first hit number one on the week ending December 9, 1978. After one week, it fell to number two, knocked out by the Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond duet “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. Ironically it was the song “Le Freak” had knocked out of the number one spot.

It returned to the top position on December 23, 1978 and was there for two weeks and was knocked to number two by “Too Much Heaven” by the Bee Gees. On January 20, 1979 it returned to Number 1 staying there for three weeks. In 2008, Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis became the second track to hit number one three times.

1978 was the height of the Disco Era, but there were many other genres being played during this time. One unusual hit came from Jazzman Chuck Mangione. This version is of the 4 minute edit, on the album it was over 8 minutes long, from an appearance on Midnight Special.