"Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)" is a song written by Emanuel LeBlanc, Herb Lane, Keith Crier and Paul Service and performed by American band GQ, from their 1979 debut

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Disco Nights ''Disco Nights'' is the debut album by American soul/disco group GQ, released in 1979 on the Arista label. The lead single " Disco Nights (Rock Freak)" was a major crossover hit, topping the R&B chart and peaking at #12 on the pop chart. The ...

''. The song was produced by Larkin Arnold, Beau Ray and Fleming Jimmy Simpson. The original title is "(Rock-Freaks) Disco / Boogie". The single ranked No. 76 on the ''Billboard'' Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1979.

Charts

The single spent two weeks at number one on the

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chart during the spring of 1979, and was the first number-one soul hit for

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, and peaked at No. 12 on the pop chart in April of that year. The single also peaked at No. 3 on the

disco Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pia ...

chart.

Weekly Charts

Year-end Charts

Sampling

Kon Kan Kon Kan is a Canadian synthpop project conceived and formed in 1988 by Barry Harris in Toronto, Ontario. Kon Kan were awarded a 1990 Juno for the song "I Beg Your Pardon" and nominated for a 1991 Juno Award for the single " Puss N' Boots/Thes ...

sampled the song in their 1988 song "

I Beg Your Pardon "I Beg Your Pardon" is the debut single by Canadian synth-pop duo Kon Kan, from their 1989 debut album '' Move to Move''. It was written by Kon Kan member Barry Harris, and American musician Joe South, who is credited due to the song's sampling o ...

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