Van McCoy - The Hustle (Official Music Video)

WOW! I have been coming up with some tunes today that I haven't heard in ages!!! Here is one I think you might remember by Van McCoy, titled "THe Hustle"!

" "The Hustle" is a disco song by songwriter/arranger Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony. It went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts during the summer of 1975. It also peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and No. 3 in the UK. It would eventually sell over one million copies. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance early in 1976 for songs recorded in 1975.

While in New York City to make an album, McCoy composed the song after his music partner, Charles Kipps, watched patrons do a dance known as "the Hustle" in the nightclub Adam's Apple. The sessions were done at New York's Media Sound studio with pianist McCoy, bassist Gordon Edwards, drummer Steve Gadd, keyboardist Richard Tee, guitarists Eric Gale and John Tropea, and orchestra leader Gene Orloff. Producer Hugo Peretti contracted piccolo player Phil Bodner to play the lead melody." Read more at Wikipedia.com

Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) professionally known as Van McCoy. was an accomplished musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle", which is still played in dance halls and on radio to this day more than thirty years since his death. He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & The Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb, and Stacy Lattisaw.

LYRICS:

"THe Hustle" by VanMcCoy

Oh, do it
Oh, do it
Do it
Do the hustle, do the hustle

Do the hustle, do the hustle
Do the hustle
Oh, do it
Oh, do it

Do the hustle, do the hustle

Do the hustle, do the hustle
Do the hustle

Written by: Van Mccoy

THis was definitely a song written for the DIsco Crowd!
I hope you enjoy it!
Kerry
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