The Trammps

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The Trammps
The Trammps, 1984
The Trammps, 1984
General information
origin Pennsylvania , Philadelphia
Genre (s) Soul , disco
founding 1972

The Trammps were an American soul band.

Career

The Trammps came from Philadelphia and were one of the first bands in the disco genre. They had their first major success in the USA in 1972 with Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart . The first real disco song they released was Love Epidemic (1973). Best known is probably her Disco Inferno (1976), which appeared on the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever in 1977 and climbed to number 11 on the Billboard charts in May 1978 .

Other hits were u. a. Hold Back the Night (1975) and That's Where the Happy People Go (1975). In 1977 the Trammps released the song The Night the Lights Went Out , as a reminder of the power failure in New York City on July 13, 1977. On September 19, 2005 Disco Inferno was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame . The band's lead singer James T. Ellis died on March 8, 2012 at the age of 74 in Rock Hill , South Carolina .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Trammps
  US 159 07/19/1975 (4 weeks)
Where the Happy People Go
  US 50 06/26/1976 (24 weeks)
Disco Inferno
  US 46 
gold
gold
04/23/1977 (49 weeks)
Trammps III
  US 85 01/21/1978 (13 weeks)
Best of Trammps
  US 139 09/23/1978 (6 weeks)
The Whole World's Dancing
  US 184 06/02/1979 (2 weeks)
Singles
Zing Went the Strings of My Heart
  US 64 09/02/1974 (11 weeks)
  UK 29 11/23/1974 (10 weeks)
Sixty Minute Man
  UK 40 02/01/1975 (4 weeks)
Hold back the night
  US 35 03/06/1976 (10 weeks)
  UK 5 10/11/1975 (8 weeks)
That's Where the Happy People Go
  US 27 06/26/1976 (15 weeks)
  UK 35 03/13/1976 (8 weeks)
Soul Searchin 'Time
  UK 42 07/24/1976 (3 weeks)
Disco Inferno
  US 11 May 27, 1978 (29 weeks)
  UK 16 05/14/1977 (7 weeks)
Hold Back the Night ( KWS feat. Guest vocal from the Trammps)
  UK 30th 12/12/1992 (3 weeks)

Albums

  • 1975: The Legendary Zing Album (Buddah)
  • 1975: Trammps (Golden Fleece / Philadelphia)
  • 1976: Where the Happy People Go (Atlantic)
  • 1976: Disco Inferno (Atlantic)
  • 1977: The Trammps III (Atlantic)
  • 1979: The Whole World's Dancing (Atlantic)
  • 1980: Mixin 'It Up (Atlantic)
  • 1980: Slipping Out (Atlantic)
  • 1984: This One Is for the Party (Injection)

literature

  • Stambler, Irwin: The Encyclopedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul . 3rd revised edition. St. Martin's Press, New York City 1989, ISBN 0-312-02573-4 , pp. 695f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Singer of The Trammps died
  2. ↑ Charts UK Charts US
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US