The song and the dance it celebrated set the beat of the disco era. The record is known for its irresistible rhythm and its primary lyrical command: “Do the hustle,” which is said 11 times.

The namesake dance was already known to Latino clubgoers, but McCoy’s No. 1 hit turned it into a bona fide craze. “Disco Inferno,” The Trammps (1976) Drummer Earl Young is widely credited ...

(laughs) (people kissing) (tape clicks) (gentle music) - [Reporter] Long before any disco craze, Ernie Nasser was a Terre Haute grocer by trade, and a dance instructor on the side. - I taught at ...

This was merged with a catchy dance beat, Barry’s falsetto vocals ... the song became synonymous with the disco craze, and an unofficial disco anthem. When the American disco band, Chic ...

“I practiced the dance moves in the mirror ... But “Saturday Night Fever” supercharged the disco craze, taking it to a wider audience. Suddenly, hotels, banquet halls and bowling alleys ...

The disco remix has been used in thousands of ... who wrote an undergraduate thesis on the dance craze. Some scholars have also linked budots dance moves to art forms of the indigenous Badjao ...