Peter Brown ft Betty Wright ~ Dance With Me 1978 Disco Purrfection Version

For the week ending May 20 1978, "Dance With Me" reached the #31 position in its twelfth week forty one years ago today.
For the record there were two Peter Browns involved in the disco/dance scene who were each influential and popular throughout the disco era. The first Peter Brown is a New York based producer and songwriter most famous for Musique's "In The Bush", you know the disco porn tune "push push in the bush..." from 1978. The second Peter Brown is a multi-talented musician born July 11, 1953 who found fame on the dancefloor with "Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me" and the stellar "Dance With Me" a #4 Disco and #8 Hot100 hit in 1978. Peter's dad was an electronic engineer who exposed his son to new audio equipment including tape recorders that had more than one track meaning that there could be music on one track and the machine could record more instruments/vocals on the second one. As a teenager he chose the drums as his instrument of choice and included percussion once he heard and fell in love with the music of Santana, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire. He began collaborating with Cory Wade who began to teach Brown how to be a producer. Taking demo tracks to the famed TK Records office in Hialeah, Florida they met with Henry Stone who was totally enamored of the demos and wanted to release them as is. Brown felt that the demos needed more work to completely involve his vision of how it should be and held out until Stone agreed to re-record the music. The song was "Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me" and it became the very first Gold 12" single ever making a big wave in the clubs peaking at #9. The follow up was "Dance With Me" radio ready disco pop tune that ruled the summer of 1978. It featured fellow TK recording artist Betty Wright who was part of the innovative promotional music clip. There was a 60 Minutes segment on how the song came to be that you can view here
The accolades followed fast and furiously with Billboard handing Brown the #1 New Male Artist and Top New Male Single Vocalist in 1978. Record World declared Brown the Outstanding New Performer, Top New Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for best R&B Vocal Performance for the song "Dance With Me", but lost to George Benson's "On Broadway (Live)" single version. In demand, he recorded songs for movie soundtracks and prepared to release his second LP "Stargazer" but did not hit the top 10 disco until "Can't Be Love - Do It To Me Anyway" in 1980 peaking at #6 as a non album single. "Baby Gets High" reached the same peak. In 1983 his "Overnight Sensation" single tanked at #55 disco, but the next song he released "They Only Come Out At Night" became his most popular disco single ever in 1983 peaking at #1 and was followed up by the #2 charting of (Love Is Just) The Game. Did you know he wrote "Material Girl"? That song became inextricably connected to Madonna who made the song her own and has been unable to shake her image of being the "Material Girl". Sadly Peter left the music business after developing a serious case of tinnitus in the late 80's. After a long hiatus, he returned to the studio in 2018 to record his fifth LP "Boom" in which he did it all on an iMac computer. The man is virtually a music machine!

[samuelmorado]

I think of 1977 as an awesome time in my life. Star Wars, KISS, Saturday night live, The Midnight Special, Black Light posters, Pop Rocks, cool muscle cars, KISS bubble gum cards as well as star wars cards. WONDER WOMAN, HULK, Bionic man and woman, CHiPS. What a great time to be alive. I was only 11.

[leandrofilierle]

Perfect since 1978 when I was thirteen

[prof.emanuelpaiva]

In 1978 I was 14 years old. In that age I already enjoyed songs like that. I'm Brazilian and in Brazil we celebrate all the disco. It was golden years.

[TheExodus]

After all of these years jammin to this song I NEVER knew Betty Wright was on vocal lead. How awesome is that?! I was just listening to it yesterday. Im done. Rest Betty.

[jessereyes]

One of the hands down music of the 70's of all times! Rythm and dance moves is unreacheable tunes ever!

[ep]

OH Man, this is real Funk Music. When I hear this song, I enter the tunnel of time. When this music came out, i was 15 years old. Great times

[Southerncharm]

I remember when I was six years old and was at great adventure with my parents. I was clutching a stuffed woody woodpecker on this ride when this was playing. I loved this song and that was the best day ever!

[hectoribarra]

This is how we got down back in the late 70's with Peter Brown ( Dance With Me)

[kennethwright]

Still one of the HOTTEST tunes of our generation. 🎼🎶🎵🔥🔥🔥🔥

[bluemeridien]

So glad I was born when I was born, and grew up when I did. Disco Days was the right time to grow up. Loove this sound! Heavy hit in Nigeria those good days.

[johnnycaballero]

Yesterday’s music are today’s treasures!!!

[tammyrenaud]

A Rare Superhit Song 🎵 Track From 1977 - 1978 I Remember This One At The Disco Club's And The 🎉😅Studio 54 Manhattan Disco Parties It Was Peter Brown's Top Choice Music That Last A Life Time In.Our Hearts 💕 And Minds 👌 50 Years Later.!!!!Anthony D.Rose Iam A Disco King 🤴 Forever...Youtubers

[ep]

with the luxurious assistance of Betty Wright on backing vocals

[cjstransp]

I wonder why music artist these days cannot make music this great? Great pick.

[AmyLSacks]

Missing the divine Ms. Wright. (1953-2020) :(

[hepburnscott]

A thousand years from now this will still be cranking for me! Such clear and sexy pure lyrics. Hey, let's give those background singers some love 2, they're phenomenal.

[herberthunter]

TK Records: Peter Brown, Betty Wright, KC & The Sunshine Band and many more TK artists were the mid 70s to the early 80s soundtrack to most of our lives.

[celsoavila]

Betty Wright Brilliant in the Back Vocals

[racineurr.]

Can there be more disco than this? This sums it all.

[javiervelasquez]

Fenomenal, thanks, Peter Brown and Betty Wright...Dance with me...that is I Aug2021.