My Feet Keep Dancing | |
Cover: | Chicmyfeetkeepdancing.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Chic |
Album: | Risqué |
B-Side: | Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song) |
Released: | December 1979 [1] |
Recorded: | 1979 |
Studio: | Power Station, New York City |
Genre: | Disco[2] |
Length: | 6:38 (album version) 3:51 (single version) |
Label: | Atlantic (3683) |
Prev Title: | My Forbidden Lover |
Prev Year: | 1979 |
Next Title: | Rebels Are We |
Next Year: | 1980 |
"My Feet Keep Dancing" is the third single from Chic's third studio album Risqué. It features a co-lead vocal by Luci Martin and Bernard Edwards and a tap dance solo by Fayard Nicholas (of the Nicholas Brothers), Eugene Jackson (of Our Gang), and Sammy Warren.
Cash Box described it as an "ear-catching dance concoction, with its rhythmic use of strings."[3] Record World called it "a fine example of how Chic sets the standards for today's dance music."[4]
It reached #21 on the UK singles chart in January 1980, spending 9 weeks on the chart. It failed to enter US Billboard R&B chart Top 40 peaking at #42. On the disco chart, "My Feet Keep Dancing, along with the cuts, "Good Times" and "My Forbidden Lover" went to #3.[2]
. Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 56.