S.O.D. "Disco Inferno" bt The Trammps
3/24/2016 At first not gaining much popularity by radio, this 1976 combination of funk and disco fought its way to the top of the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart where it remained for six weeks in 1977. On the Billboard Hot 100, it first ranked at #53 but after being featured in the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" the hit took the #11 spot. Inspiring the song was the 1974 film, The Towering Inferno where a discotheque can be seen engulfed by flames. In 2005 the song was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame.
Tina Turner and Cindy Lauper did the most notable versions of all the covers attempted. The Trammps were active from 1972–1992 and released 34 singles of which 20 were in the Top 40 and 12 in the Top 10. In the 60s before they were The Trammps, they were first the Volcanos and then the Moods.