| "Boogie Fever" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 One of side-A labels of the US single | ||||
| Single by the Sylvers | ||||
| from the album Showcase | ||||
| B-side | "Free Style" | |||
| Released | November 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:31 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Freddie Perren, Kenneth St. Lewis | |||
| Producer(s) | Freddie Perren | |||
| The Sylvers singles chronology | ||||
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"Boogie Fever" is a song recorded by Los Angeles, California-based R&B group the Sylvers, from their 1975 album Showcase. Their most lucrative single, it reached No. 1 in the US on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts as well as reaching No. 1 in Canada on the RPM national singles chart in 1976.[2] It was their third of nine Top 20 R&B hits and first top 40 pop single.[3] Billboard ranked it as the No. 20 song for 1976. "Boogie Fever" is one of two gold records by the Sylvers, the other being "Hot Line".
- ^ a b Breihan, Tom (September 3, 2019). "The Number Ones: The Sylvers' "Boogie Fever"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
Perren co-wrote "Boogie Fever," an absolutely incandescent piece of euphoric Jacksons-esque pop-soul...And "Boogie Fever" really is top-shelf bubblegum disco.
- ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 563.