Best 1970s Funk and Disco Songs

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   Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

   James Brown · from Sex Machine (1970)

   The Godfather locks into an eternal groove.

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   Jungle Boogie

   Kool & the Gang · from Wild and Peaceful (1973)

   The brass fanfare that never sounds like it should work and always does.

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   Pick Up the Pieces

   Average White Band · from AWB (1974)

   An instrumental funk classic with a killer horn line.

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   Fire

   Ohio Players · from Fire (1974)

   A chart-topping blast of hot, tight funk.

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   Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band)

   Bootsy's Rubber Band · from Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band (1976)

   Bootsy's rubbery bass at its most playful.

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   Disco Inferno

   The Trammps · from Disco Inferno (1976)

   Twelve minutes of escalation that ends in genuine fire.

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   I Feel Love

   Donna Summer · from I Remember Yesterday (1977)

   Giorgio Moroder's synthesizer blueprint for the next forty years.

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   Strawberry Letter 23

   The Brothers Johnson · from Right on Time (1977)

   A dreamy, Quincy Jones-produced groove.

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   I Will Survive

   Gloria Gaynor · from Love Tracks (1978)

   The most impeccable survivor anthem in pop history.

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    You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    Sylvester · from Step II (1978)

    The purest hi-NRG moment in the whole canon.

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    Hot Stuff

    Donna Summer · from Bad Girls (1979)

    Rock-tinged disco at full throttle.

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    We Are Family

    Sister Sledge · from We Are Family (1979)

    Nile Rodgers' other great production: warmth as disco weapon.

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