Boogie Fever

Album: Showcase (1976)
Charted: 1
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  • The Sylvers album Showcase. Consider the cover art, a shot of the group - afros that could eclipse Jupiter, combined with space costumes from the planet Flower Child. Are you sure it's from 1976? Well, let's consider the font they used to write the band's name...

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  • Mooshead from Sci was 6 years old when this was the jam! bicentennial year. fireworks on the fourth of july, red white and blue
  • Jp from Roanoke, VaIn the made for TV mini-series based on Stephen King's "The Stand", this song is playing on a radio which is seen/heard at the very beginning of the first episode.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 8th 1976, "Boogie Fever" by the Sylvers entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at #84; and on May 9th it peaked at #1 (for 1 week) and spent 21 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 7 of those 21 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    It reached #1 (for 1 week) on April 30th, 1976 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    And on May 15th it also peaked at #1 (for 1 week) on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart...
    The week it peaked at #1 on the Top 100 another 'Boogie' record was in the Top 10, "Get Up and Boogie" by Silver Convention, was at position #7.
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