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Everybody's Dancin'
Everybody's Dancin' is a studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1978. It peaked at No. 71 on Billboard's Top Black Albums chart.[1] Reception
In 1978, despite their music's recent feature in Saturday Night Fever, Kool & the Gang were "at a low point"[3] of commercial decline.[4] The Rolling Stone wrote that the band struggled to maintain its relevance in the disco world, despite a prominent horn section.[3] Speaking of the circa-1978 era, drummer George "Funky" Brown stated, "We tried our version of disco. It didn't work."[3] The Detroit Free Press opined that "Kool and the Gang have gone bland," noting that "they've joined the disco lemmings...The edge has gone".[5] Predecessor to commercial successThe year of its release, the band played at a record store to promote Everybody's Dancin'.[where?] When nobody showed up for the performance, the band was "humiliated".[citation needed] Ronald Bell recalled that a teenager visiting the store told the band "something they all vaguely sensed": that despite the success of "Jungle Boogie" (1973), "Hollywood Swinging" (1974), and "Funky Stuff" (1973), Kool & the Gang was "now...washed up". Bell claimed he took it as a wake-up call to "make something pop" the next time the band was in the studio. The following year, producer Eumir Deodato arranged for traditional choruses, a front man vocalist (J. T. Taylor) and the band released Ladies' Night. It was their first major success and their first album to go platinum.[3] Track listing
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