"Going to a Disco" is an electro-funk-dance song[1] written by Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran,[2][3][4] and released as the duo's second penned single for Martyn Ford[5][6] on Mountain Records (catalog number TOP30), released on the 12 August 1977 in the UK and Europe.[7] This was the first Mountain label single to be distributed by Phonogram[8] and had the characteristic moulded plastic label.[9] The recording was produced by Ford and John Punter,[10] and was the follow-up release to Ford's UK hit single, "Let Your Body Go Downtown". It was also released as a 12 inch single with the catalog number "MOUNT 1".[11] The record received generally good reviews in the music as well as the mainstream press, with the Kent Evening News music correspondent writing "follow-up to the funk single Let Your Body Go Downtown and should provide another hit for the orchestra".[12] It recently received plays at Seven by Seven, an open decks vinyl playing club based in Leeds, U.K.[13]

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  1. ^ "Disco Savvy: 1977 Disco". Discosavvy.com. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  2. ^ "Martyn Ford - Going To A Disco (Vinyl)". Discogs.com. 12 August 1977. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  3. ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". Offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  4. ^ "Mike Moran - Musician - Music database - Radio Swiss Jazz". Radioswissjazz.ch. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  5. ^ "Martyn Ford - Biography". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  6. ^ "Discography". Martynford.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  7. ^ "Martyn Ford - Going To A Disco / Don't Wanna Fight - Mountain - UK - TOP 30". 45cat.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  8. ^ Billboard, August 6, 1977, p. 4
  9. ^ "Mountain Records UK". 45-sleeves.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  10. ^ "Martyn Ford - Going To A Disco". Ultratop.be. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  11. ^ "Martyn Ford – Going To A Disco (1977, Vinyl) - Discogs". Discogs. 1977.
  12. ^ Kent Evening News, 19 August 1977, p. 21
  13. ^ "Sessions #8-14 (2019-21)". 7by7.club. Retrieved 2024-05-09.