My Feet Keep Dancing Explained

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]

Track listings

Atlantic 7" 3638, 1979
Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 220

Chart

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]

References

  1. Web site: Chic singles.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 56.

  3. News: CashBox Singles Reviews. November 24, 1979. 24. Cash Box. 2022-01-01.
  4. Record World. November 24, 1979. 2023-02-11. Hits of the Week. 1.