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| The Best Disco... Ever! | ||||
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| Compilation album by Various Artists | ||||
| Released | June 22, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Disco | |||
| Length | more than 240 min | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
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The Best Disco... Ever! is a compilation album released by EMI in 2007. It contains songs by international artists.
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LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.
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Pure Disco is the name of a series of compilation CDs of disco, dance and funk music released by the Universal Music Group under the UTV Records label.
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Soul Train: The Dance Years is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1999 and 2000, and spun off from the long-running syndicated television series Soul Train.
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