You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

For the album by the Wiggles, see You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (album).

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a song by British singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart,^[3] making it his first top single in the United States, and reached number two on the UK Singles Chart.^[4] Billboard ranked it the number 13 song of 1977.

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
Single by Leo Sayer
from the album Endless Flight
B-side	"Magdalena"
Released	October 1976
Genre	Disco pop R&B
Length	3:41 2:50 (7″ version)
Label	Chrysalis (UK) Warner Bros. (US)
Songwriters	Leo Sayer Vini Poncia [1][2]
Producer	Richard Perry
Leo Sayer singles chronology
"Moonlighting" (1975) "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (1976) "When I Need You" (1977)
Music Video
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" on YouTube

Credited songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 for Best R&B Song. Ray Parker Jr, who was a session musician at the time, has stated that he was the original songwriter and that when he gave the tune as a demo, his accreditation as such was missed.^[5] "It's not Leo's fault," Parker told Variety. "He tried to cut six or seven more of my songs just because he felt so bad."^[5]

Like other Sayer songs from that time, it features extensive use of the singer's falsetto voice, a very popular vocal register in disco-era songs. Sayer performed the song in the thirteenth episode of the second season of "Saturday Night Live" and the second episode of season 3 of The Muppet Show.

Personnel

• Leo Sayer – vocals
• John Barnes – electric piano, clavinet
• Larry Carlton, Ray Parker Jr. – guitar
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Jeff Porcaro – drums (verse 3 onwards)
• Clydie King, Becky Louis, Sherlie Matthews – background vocals
• Chuck Rainey – bass
• Gene Page – string arrangements

Chart performance

Weekly charts Chart (1976–1977) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report)[6][7] 2 Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[8] 18 Canada Top Singles (RPM)[9] 1 Ireland (IRMA)[10] 5 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11] 11 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[12] 1 South Africa (Springbok Radio)[13] 3 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 19 Switzerland (Sonntagsblick Hitparade)[15] 18 UK Singles (OCC)[16] 2 US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[17] 19 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[18] 43 US Billboard Hot 100[19] 1 West Germany (GfK)[20] 9

Year-end charts Chart (1976) Rank Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 84 Canada[21] 99 Chart (1977) Rank Australia (Kent Music Report)[22] 49 Canada[23] 30 New Zealand[24] 27 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[25] 13 All-time charts Chart (1958–2018) Position US Billboard Hot 100[26] 594

Cover versions

• Lee Ritenour brought back drummer Steve Gadd among other session stars to add this cover to his 1979 album, Feel the Night.
• DTV, in 1984, set the song to The Grasshopper and the Ants.
• A remixed version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" credited to Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1998, peaking at No.32.^[4]
• In 2008, the Wiggles sang the song as the title work of their DVD You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, with Leo Sayer guest starring.^{[citation needed]}