Dancing in the City

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"Dancing in the City"
Single by Marshall Hain
from the album Free Ride
B-side "Take My Number"
ReleasedMay 1978 [1]
Genre Pop [1]
Length3:47
Label Harvest [1]
Songwriter(s) Julian Marshall
Kit Hain [1]
Producer(s) Christopher Neil [1]
Marshall Hain singles chronology
"Dancing in the City"
(1978)
"Coming Home"
(1978)
Music video
"Dancing in the City" (TopPop, 1978) on YouTube

"Dancing in the City" is a song by British pop-rock duo Marshall Hain, which was a number-three hit in the UK in 1978. On its first release it spent fifteen weeks in the UK charts. [2] It was a massive hit in South Africa, reaching the No. 1 position on 3 November 1978, and holding that position for three weeks on the Springbok Charts. A re-mixed version released in 1987 reached number 81 on the UK charts.

Contents

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1978–1979)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 3
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [4] 6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [5] 7
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [6] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [7] 14
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [8] 15
South Africa (EMA) [9] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [10] 7
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 4
UK Singles (OCC) [12] 3
US Billboard Hot 100 [13] 43
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [14] 33
West Germany (Official German Charts) [15] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)Position
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 60
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [17] 61
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] 29
West Germany (Official German Charts) [19] 29

"Dancin' in the City '87"

Chart (1987)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [20] 81

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