| The Best Disco in Town | |
| Cover: | The_Best_Disco_in_Town_-_The_Ritchie_Family.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Ritchie Family |
| Album: | Arabian Nights |
| B-Side: | The Best Disco in Town (Pt. 2) |
| Released: | 1976 |
| Genre: | Disco |
| Length: | (7" version) (Album version) |
| Label: | Marlin |
| Producer: | Jacques Morali, Richie Rome |
| Prev Title: | I Want to Dance with You (Dance with Me) |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | Life Is Music |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
"The Best Disco in Town" is a 1976 crossover disco single by Philadelphia-based group, The Ritchie Family. In the United States, the single was a top 20 hit on both the soul and pop charts.[1] "The Best Disco in Town" went to number one for one week on the disco/dance chart.[2]
The song is a medley of pop and R&B hits, preceding other medleys like Shalamar's "Uptown Festival" by 1 year and Stars On 45's "Medley" by 5 years.
Songs included on the single are "Reach Out I'll Be There", "I Love Music", "Bad Luck", "TSOP", "Fly, Robin, Fly", the group's own "Brazil". The extended single adds the songs "Love To Love You Baby", "That's the Way (I Like It)", "Lady Bump", "Express", "Lady Marmalade", and the group's own song from the Arabian Nights album, "Romantic Love."
| Chart (1976-77) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] | 3 | |
| Canada RPM | 15 | |
| Germany | 22 | |
| Netherlands | 2 | |
| Norway | 10 | |
| South Africa[4] | 18 | |
| Sweden | 13 | |
| UK Singles Chart[5] | 10 | |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 17 | |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles | 12 | |
| U.S. Record World Disco | 1 |
. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 494.
. Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 218.
. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W . 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
