April 30, 1977 –
Marvin Gaye’s single Got to Give It Up went to No. 1 on the R&B charts, on this date.
By the mid-’70s, Gaye and his labelmates at Motown were feeling the pressure to record dance-floor friendly hits as disco was on the rise. Gaye resisted until he had an idea to parody the genre. Got to Give It Up was originally titled Dancing Lady as a response to Johnnie Taylor’s Disco Lady.
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