You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a song by the British singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,^[1] making it his first number one single in United States, and #2 on the UK Singles Chart.^[2] Songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in the category Best R&B Song.

In 2006, the song "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by the American band Scissor Sisters was often compared with Sayer's song because of its tempo, arrangement and subject matter.

Sayer performed the song on The Muppet Show, Season 3 (1978-1979), episode 2; he also performed The Show Must Go On and When I Need You.

Sayer re-recorded the song with The Wiggles in 2008 for a Wiggles DVD, also entitled You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.

Music video

• In Australia, a live performance from the TV show "Countdown" is frequently used in place of a music video.

Cover versions

• Sylvia wrote Swedish lyrics for "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and recorded this rendering: "Det Känns Som Jag Vill Dansa", for her 1977 album Leenden I Regn
• A remixed version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" credited to Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1998, peaking at #32.^[3]
• A cover by Carmen Carter & Donnie McClurkin featured in the 2000 Walt Disney Pictures direct-to-video animated film An Extremely Goofy Movie.
• A cover version sung by actress Anne Hathaway was included on the soundtrack for the 2004 film Ella Enchanted, adapted from the fantasy novel of the same name.
• A cover was performed by Hot Buttered Rum String Band on their live release "Live in The Northeast."

Appearances in other media

• In episode 3F21 of The Simpsons ("Homerpalooza"), a teenaged Homer and his friend Barney alternate singing the chorus of this song into hairbrushes in Homer's room.

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