| Dancer | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Gino Soccio |
| Album: | Outline |
| B-Side: | So Lonely |
| Released: | 1979 |
| Recorded: | 1979 |
| Genre: | Disco |
| Label: | RFC/Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | Mix Machine |
| Prev Title: | The Visitors |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Dance To Dance |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
Dancer is a song by Gino Soccio. It was released as a single in 1979 from his album Outline.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The song topped the Billboard Disco chart and remained on that spot for six weeks.[5] It was also Soccio's only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at No. 48, and his only Top 10 hit on his home country's RPM Top Singles chart, peaking at No. 6.[6]
The song was part of the playlist at New York City disco Paradise Garage, in an extended mix by DJ Larry Levan. “They would play that song three times in a row sometimes, and it was already an eight-minute song," Soccio told Wax Poetics in a 2013 career retrospective interview. "It was twenty-four minutes of ‘Dancer,’ and people just would not get enough of it. It really was something. It blew me away.”[7]
| Chart (1979) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada RPM Top Singles[8] | 6 | |
| US Billboard Hot 100[9] | 48 | |
| US Billboard Hot Soul Singles | 60 | |
| US Billboard Disco Top 80 | 1 | |
| UK Singles[10] | 46 |
During Pride Month 2022, "Dancer" was selected by Jezebel as #22 in their list of "69 of the Best Disco Songs of All Time."[11]
The song was featured as background music in the club scene of the 1979 film "Suhaag".