Top R&B Songs of 1977 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

[Warner 8332]
written by Albert Hammond & Carole Bayer Sager

[ABC 12284]
written by Marvin Willis, Arnold Ingram & James Mitchell

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #189] charted as Stayin' Alive / Night Fever / More Than a Woman in US dance charts
[RSO 885]
written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb

[Columbia 10544]
written by Maurice White & Al McKay

[Epic 50370]
written by Rod Temperton

[Tamla 54280]
written by Marvin Gaye

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #411] charted as I Feel Love / Theme from the Deep (Down Deep Inside) in US dance charts
[Casablanca 884]
written by Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte & Donna Summer

instrumental
[Millennium 604]
written by John Williams [composer]

charted as Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) / Everybody Dance / You Can Get By in US dance charts
[Atlantic 3435]
written by Bernard Edwards, Kenny Lehman & Nile Rodgers

[RSO 872]
written by Barry Gibb

[Motown 1418]
written by Lionel Richie

[Epic 50313]
written by Buddy Killen & Bennie McGinty

[RSO 879]
written by John Crowley & Peter Beckett

as The Jacksons
[Epic 50350]
written by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff

[Private Stock 45178]
written by Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb

[T.K. 1022]
written by Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch

[Big Tree 16096]
written by Russ Ballard

[RCA 11129]
written by Sandy Linzer & Denny Randell

[20th Century 2350]
written by Barry White

[Capitol 4398]
written by Freddie Perren & Keni St. Lewis

[Arista 0283]
written by Ray Parker Jr

[A&M 1949]
written by Shuggie Otis

[A&M 1974]
written by Len Ron Hanks & Zane Grey

charted as Sweet Love / Brick House in UK charts
[Motown 1425]
written by Lionel Richie, Thomas McClary, Milan Williams, Ronald LaPread, William King & Walter Orange

[MCA 40662]
written by Norman Whitfield

[novelty]
[GRT 127]
written by Meri Wilson

[Buddah 569]
written by Van McCoy

[Capitol 4360]
written by Chuck Jackson & Marvin Yancy

[Columbia 10627]
written by Bill Withers & Skip Scarborough

charted as Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) / Everybody Dance / You Can Get By in US dance charts
[Atlantic 3469]
written by Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers

[Big Tree 16085]
written by Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford & Herbert Thomas Brasfield Jr.

as Evelyn "Champagne" King
[RCA 11122]
written by John H. Fitch Jr & Reuben Cross

[MCA 40825]
written by Norman Whitfield

R [new version]
[Millennium 612]
written by Dick Glasser

charted as Supernature / Give Me Love / Love Is Here in US dance charts
[Cotillion 44230]
written by Alain Wisniak & Jean-Marc Cerrone

[RSO 871]
written by Barbara Lewis

produced by Rupert Holmes
[London 20092]
written by John Miles & Bob Marshall

[Dash 5032]
written by Theophilus "T" Coakley

[Warner 8387]
written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb

[A&M 1920]
written by David Jenkins & Cory Lerios

[Polydor 14373]
written by Buddy Buie, Dean Daughtry & Robert Nix

[Capitol 4509]
written by Marvin Jerome Yancy & Charles Henry Jackson Jr.

[MCA 40820]
written by Charles Miller, Harold Brown, Howard Scott, Lee Oskar, Lonnie Jordan, Morris Dickerson & Thomas Allen

[Columbia 3-10625]
written by Sonny Burke, Maurice White & Verdine White

[Gordy 7155]
written by Marilyn McLeod & Pam Sawyer

charted as Disco Inferno / Starvin' / Body Contact Contract in US dance charts
[Atlantic 3389]
written by Leroy Green & Ron Kersey

[Arista 0251]
written by Linda Creed & Michael Masser

[Malaco 1042]
written by Dick Addrisi & Don Addrisi

[Casablanca 907]
written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte

[going to a go-go, i can't help myself, sugar pie honey bunch, uptight, stop in the name of love, it's the same old song]
[Soul Train 2289]
written by Brian Holland, Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby, Norman Whitfield & William "Mickey" Stevenson

[Motown 1427]
written by Franne Golde & Tom Snow

[Columbia 10556]
written by Clarence McDonald, Deniece Williams, Fritz Baskett & Lani Groves

charted as Too Hot to Trot / Zoom in UK charts
[Motown 1432]
written by Lionel Richie, Milan Williams, Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange & William King

backing vocals by Wildflower
[Drive 6258]
written by Peter Brown & Robert Rans

[re-recording: disco version]
[Westbound 55401]
written by Abrim Tilmon

[Epic 50490]
written by Rod Temperton

[Dash 5041]
written by Theophilus "T" Coakley

[ABC 12262]
written by H. B. Barnum & Walter Johnson

[Bang 734]
written by Raymond Lincoln Ransom Jr., Reginald J. Hargis & James B. Brown

instrumental charted as Love in C Minor / Midnight Lady in US dance charts
[Cotillion 44215]
written by Alec R. Costandinos & Jean-Marc Cerrone

[RSO 867]
written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb

charted as Devil's Gun / We Got Our Own Thing / Sure Can't Go to the Moon in US dance charts
[Westbound 55400]
written by Barry Ian Green, Gerry Shury & Ron Roker

charted as Do Your Dance / It Makes You Feel Like Dancin' in US dance charts
[Whitfield 8440]
written by Norman Whitfield & Dwight Turner

[Capitol 4405]
written by Edmund Sylvers, James Sylvers, Leon Sylvers III & Ricky Sylvers

as Bob Marley & the Wailers
[Island 089]
written by Bob Marley

[Mercury 73959]
written by Michael Cooper

written by Bo Kirkland, R. L. Kirkland, Ruth Davis & Hense Powell

charted as Cocomotion / I'm Mad as Hell / Love to the World / Got That Feeling in US dance charts instrumental
[AVI 147]
written by W. Michael Lewis, Laurin Rinder & Merria Ross

[Philadelphia International 3634]
written by Von Gray & Sherman Marshall

as The Jacksons
[Epic 50454]
written by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff

featuring Chaka Khan
[ABC 12239]
written by Tony Maiden & Lalomie Washburn

[Cotillion 44218]
written by Mark Adams, Carter Bradley, Tim Dozier, Mark Hicks, Tom Lockett, Floyd Miller, Steve Washington, Dan Webster & Orion Wilhoite

[Omni 5501]
written by Alfie Davison

[= Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, Archie Bell, Teddy Pendergrass, O'Jays, Dee Dee Sharpe]
[Philadelphia International 3627]
written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff & Cary Gilbert

[DJM 1024]
written by Johnny Guitar Watson

charted as Could Heaven Ever Be Like This / Tasty Cakes in US dance charts
[Kudu 939]
written by David Matthews & Tony Sarafino

instrumental
[Salsoul 2014]
written by Bedu Silvetti

featuring Chaka Khan
[ABC 12269]
written by André Fischer & David Wolinski

[Tamla 54291]
written by Stevie Wonder

[T-Neck 2262]
written by Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley & Chris Jasper

[Blue Note 1009]
written by Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott & Jerry Goldstein

as Celi Bee & the Buzzy Bunch
charted as Superman / One Love in US dance charts
[APA 17001]
written by Pepe Luis Soto

instrumental
[Columbia 10468]
written by Bill Conti

[ABC 12240]
written by Derek Floyd

instrumental
[AVI 153]
written by W. Michael Lewis, Laurin Rinder, Gil Karson & David Williams

[T-Neck 2264]
written by Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley & Chris Jasper

charted as Choosing You / Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh! in US dance charts
[ABC 12300]
written by Bernard Thompson & Lenny Williams

[ABC 12298]
written by John Footman, Theresa McFaddin & Frank Wilson

[Gold Mind 4004]
written by Allan Felder, Norman Harris & Ron Tyson

[Epic 50463]
written by George Duke

instrumental
[20th Century 2325]
written by John Barry

as Carrie
[Soul Train 10891]
written by Marc Anthony

[Roadshow 991]
written by Emanuel Johnson & Michael Stokes

[Philadelphia International 3622]
written by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff

instrumental
[Casablanca 876]
written by Cerrone

as Bob Marley & the Wailers
[Island 092]
written by Bob Marley

[Philadelphia International 3621]
written by Paul McCartney

[Spring 175]
written by Glenn Martin & Sonny Throckmorton