Casey Kasem 40 Hits of the Disco Era

No “Love Hangover?”

The group "A Tast of Honey" higher on the countdown than 5 Donna Summer songs??? " A Fifth of Beethoven" at number 5?! this list is like listening to tourists describe the city you grew up in.

there commercial Pop orientated disco and there soul RNB disco two different things
Casey Kasem is clueless
Disco just a mainstream marketing term for uptempo RNB
Bee Gees was pop Disco garbage
if i wanted the real thing id listen to GQ, Coffee ,Gayle Adams ,etc

They knew disco was over by then?

DISCO RULES!!!!!

Best years of my life ! Best memory : 1978 my first visit to THE COPA and MARLIN BEACH TEA DANCE in Fort Lauderdale Florida

For anyone interested, listen to Alec R. Costandinos's "Romeo and Juliet" and see if this lost gem deserves a spot in the all-time top 40.

Disco lives forever, bebe 💖

Donna Summer should be the top 10!

Could you imagine saying “the disco phase of the rock era” to the people at Comiskey Park July 12 1979?

Casey did the voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo.

Thanks for such a good memories and for whoever downloaded. R.I.P Casey kaisem

The disco era was the best time, I have a lot disco songs on my Spotify playlist,glad I was there😊

disco music was so infectious that even hard rock KISS joined the bandwagon with their 1979 hit “I was Made for Loving You” which peaked at #11 on Billboard Hot 100

Best time ever 70s and 80s

How the fk disco duck is on this list 😅

Alternative title: 35 Obscure Disco Songs out of 40 Nobody Knows (Not Even the DJ) 😅

Wow...good times!!!

I wonder what the top 40 Disco songs would have been, if they used the charts from the Dance Disco Club Action surveys from 76-81.

I agree with what the first person with comments made. A lot of this list is actually funk, R&B & just pop dance music. Some of these are disco (dance) songs. Many disco (dance ) songs from back in the day, actually go to an 8 count. The 8 count is your ( basic) steps in disco dancing ( partner dancing). I think most disco songs have that distinct disco sound, little kind of like high energy music. Very fluent in nature. To me, most of this music was more or less, commercialized.

Love all the tracks that made the top 40. Some of them were genre-defining. However, I'm a little disappointed that none of Sylvester's hits made this list though. Of these four: Do You Want to Funk, You Make Me Feel, Can't Stop Dancin and Disco Heat, surely one of them should have made it into the top 40 of the era. Love the Genre. Nothing compares anymore.

"The Hustle" just an extra? Ridiculous!

You dont have to do Kasey's introduction 80 times in these count downs

How deep is your love?? Great song, but Disco??

I disagree with Casey. Disco was not a part of the Rock era. It was and is its own genre.

I remember the horrible anti-Disco era. The Rock segment of the population could not tolerate competing with/being displaced by Disco. I am 66 years old and I do not remember any other time where there was a concerted movement to bring down another form of music style.

Casey cited 20,000 discotheques. No wonder Rock felt threatened.

If someone doesn't like a particular form of music, ignore it and let those that do, enjoy it. Unfortunately, that was too much to ask for when it concerned Disco.

That Giorgio Moroder sound was/is amazing.

I wonder what the countdown was in Europe.

Lovers Holiday by Change is the song with more weeks at number one o Disco chart for always ( 9 weeks at #1)

Dance with me by Peter Brown, car wash by Rose Royce, dance dance dance by Chic, Mac Arthurs Park by Donna and Dont lea eme this way are SO. Disco

A mi nunca me ha emocionado Le freakcon toda esa popularidad que le dan otras quizá por ejemplo good Times y dance dance dance

Disco is everywhere, always!

The commercials back in the day were a lot..over and over

Rock The Boat didn't make the list? How could that happen?

Thats my time

I'm still dancing to 70s disco in 2025!

In the UK, it was the various Philly Sound tracks, Hues Corporation & also George McCrae's Rock Your Baby (KC) that started the Disco Ball rolling in the Summer of 1974.

MacArthur Park - disco ? Really ??

1980 had a few great disco 🕺 tunes too 💃 ✨: Funkytown, Celebration, Upside Down 💙❤.

I'm almost 58. I absolutely loved Disco. And still listen to it. I remember it like it was yesterday when I was a kid to pre-teen ❤

ok pero falto BAD GIRLS con Donna Sumer la Reina del Disco

It's so hard to believe that is shaggy from Scooby-Doo. And honestly it's sad to say but in the US disco's and clubs are virtually extinct

Le freak #1 🥴 not my fave song not even top 40

I used to love listening to the top forty.

this survey or ranking is outdated ... it does not even contain Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor, the first platinum issued or selling single and #1 for 4 weeks nor does it contain Love Hangover by Diana Ross 2 weeks at #1 and both in 1976. Quite sure those sold more than other songs listed here which were barely top 10 or just merely top 10 hits. Or at least those should have been given special mentions and are obvious oversights (among other high charting disco/pop songs from 1975 to 1979) by Casey way back then. May Casey Kasem rest in peace though, he was fun to listen to and his America's top 40 during the early to mid 1980s on the radio on Sundays.

40. Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer
39. Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches & Herb
38. Back In Love Again – LTD
37. Last Dance – Donna Summer
36. Turn The Beat Around – Vicki Sue Robinson
35. Keep It Comin’ Love – KC & The Sunshine Band
34. Shake Your Body Down To The Ground – The Jacksons
33. Dance With Me – Peter Brown
32. That’s The Way (I Like It) – KC & The Sunshine Band
31. I Feel Love – Donna Summer
30. Dazz – Brick
29. Disco Inferno – The Trammps
28. Knock On Wood – Amy Stewart
27. You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees
26. Get Up And Boogie – Silver Convention
25. In The Navy – Village People
24. You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate
23. Got To Give It Up – Marvin Gaye
22. Fly, Robin, Fly – Silver Convention
21. Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
20. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band – Meco
19. More, More, More – Andrea True Connection
18. Miss You – The Rolling Stones
17. Car Wash – Rose Royce
16. If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman
15. Shake Your Booty – KC & The Sunshine Band
14. I’m Your Boogie Man – KC & The Sunshine Band
13. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) – Chic
12. MacArthur Park – Donna Summer
11. Don’t Leave Me This Way – Thelma Houston
10. YMCA – Village People
9. Boogie Oogie Oogie – A Taste of Honey
8. I Love The Night Life (Disco Round) – Alicia Bridges
7. Do You Think I’m Sexy – Rod Stewart
6. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
5. A Fifth Of Beethoven – Walter Murphy Band
4. Best Of My Love – Emotions
3. Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
2. Night Fever – Bee Gees
1. Le Freak – Chic

Where is Shame by ECK?! I went to plenty of discos in the day and it was always played at the height of a fever-pitched night. Giorgio Moroder’s From Here To Eternity was a huge hit in the clubs as well. EW&F & The Emotions Boogie Wonderland should have been there. And Good Times should have replaced Chic’a Dance, Dance, Dance. It wasn’t as big a hit as Good Times and Good Times was also sampled for Rapper’s Delight, a true classic. Songs I could have done without—5th of Bethoven, Meco, LTD, Alicia Bridges, less KC with maybe Get Down Tonight instead of one of the others, and one Silver Connection song and was enough. And Bad Girls!!