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 credited to British-Australian singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight.

"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

Ray Parker Jr. claims that the song was stolen from him, after he played it in a studio for an executive who promised he would get credit. Parker received no royalties and no credit for that song. "It's not Leo's fault," he told Variety. "He tried to cut six or seven more of my songs just because he felt so bad."^[3]

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart,^[4] making it his first top single in the United States, and reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.^[5] Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song of 1977. Credited songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in Best R&B Song. Parker has stated that he was the original songwriter and that when he gave the tune as a demo his accreditation as such was missed.^[6] 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)[7][8] 2 Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[9] 18 Canada Top Singles (RPM)[10] 1 Ireland (IRMA)[11] 5 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[12] 11 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[13] 1 South Africa (Springbok Radio)[14] 3 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[15] 19 Switzerland (Sonntagsblick Hitparade)[16] 18 UK Singles (OCC)[17] 2 US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[18] 19 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[19] 43 US Billboard Hot 100[20] 1 West Germany (GfK)[21] 9

Year-end charts Chart (1976) Rank Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] 84 Canada[22] 99 Chart (1977) Rank Australia (Kent Music Report)[23] 49 Canada[24] 30 New Zealand[25] 27 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[26] 13 All-time charts Chart (1958–2018) Position US Billboard Hot 100[27] 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.^[5]
• 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]}