Everybody Dance (song)

"Everybody Dance"
Single by Chic
from the album Chic
B-side	"You Can Get By"
Released	1978
Format	7"
Recorded	1977
Genre	Disco
Length	7" 3:25 - LP 6:40 - 12" 8:25
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Bernard Edwards Nile Rodgers
Producer	Bernard Edwards Nile Rodgers
Chic singles chronology
"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977) "Everybody Dance" (1978) "Le Freak" (1978)

"Everybody Dance" is the second single from the first album Chic by the Chic. It features Norma Jean Wright on lead vocals. Luther Vandross appears on background vocals. It was later heavily sampled by British pop group Steps on their UK number 1 "Stomp" in 2000 and by the Manic Street Preachers on their Single (It's not war) Just the end of love in 2010.

The song is featured in the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion pack The Ballad of Gay Tony on the radio station K109.

Track listings

Atlantic 7" 3469, 1978

• A. "Everybody Dance" (7" Edit) - 3:30
• B. "You Can Get By" (7" Edit) - 3:59

Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 109, 1978

• A. "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25
• B. "You Can Get By" - 5:36

Atlantic 12" DK 4621, 1978 / Atlantic Oldies promo 12" DSKO 179, 1979

• A. "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25
• B. "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21

Chart history

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	38
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles	12
UK Singles Chart	9

Preceded by Village People by Village People (all cuts)

Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single (with "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "You Can Get By") October 22, 1977 - November 10, 1977

Succeeded by Once Upon a Time by Donna Summer (all cuts)