Disco Inferno is the fourth studio album by American soul-disco group the Trammps. It premiered in discothèques on December 29, 1976, for New Year's Eve celebrations, and then was widely released through Atlantic Records in January 1977.
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Commercial performance
The album peaked at No. 16 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 46 on the Billboard 200. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 9 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and "I Feel Like I've Been Livin' (On the Dark Side of the Moon)", which charted at No. 52 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
Personnel
The Trammps
Jimmy Ellis – lead vocal
Robert Upchurch – lead and baritone vocal
Earl Young – bass vocal, drums
Harold Wade – first tenor
Stanley Wade – second tenor
Additional personnel
Ronald Baker – bass
Norman Harris, Bobby Eli, T.J. Tindall – guitars
Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, T.G. Conway, Bruce Gray, Carlton Kent – keyboards
Larry Washington, Robert Cupit – congas
Allen Felder, Ronald Tyson – tambourines
Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Evette Benton – background vocals
Don Renaldo and His Strings and Horns
Flash Wilson – The Trammps' M.C.
Charts
Album
Singles