Don't Take Away the Music

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"Don't Take Away the Music"
Don't Take Away the Music by Tavares US single side-A.png
Side A of the US single
Single by Tavares
from the album Sky High!
B-side "Guiding Star"
ReleasedOctober 1976
Recorded1976
Genre Pop, R&B, dance, disco
Length6:18 (album version)
3:36 (single version)
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Keni St. Lewis
Freddie Perren
Christine Yarian
Producer(s) Freddie Perren
Tavares singles chronology
"Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"
(1976)
"Don't Take Away the Music"
(1976)
"Whodunit"
(1977)

"Don't Take Away the Music" is a hit song by R&B/disco group Tavares, released in the fall of 1976. It peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart [1] and at number four in the UK. Along with the track "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", the song spent two weeks at number 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. [2]

Contents

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1976–77)Peak
position
Canadian RPM48
Ireland [3] 7
Netherlands5
UK 4
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 34
US Dance/Disco [5] 1
US R&B [6] 14
US Cash Box Top 100 40

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References

  1. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 ISBN   0-89820-089-X
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 254.
  3. The Irish Charts, November 19, 1976
  4. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 ISBN   0-89820-089-X
  5. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 254.
  6. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 567.