Don't Take Away the Music

{{Infobox song

| name = Don't Take Away the Music

| image = Don't Take Away the Music by Tavares US single side-A.png

| alt =

| caption = Side A of the US single

| type = single

| artist = Tavares

| album = Sky High!

| B-side = Guiding Star

| released = October 1976

| recorded = 1976

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop, R&B, dance, disco

| length = {{Duration|m=6|s=18}} (album version)
{{Duration|m=3|s=36}} (single version)

| label = Capitol

| writer = Keni St. Lewis
Freddie Perren
Christine Yarian

| producer = Freddie Perren

| prev_title = Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel

| prev_year = 1976

| next_title = Whodunit

| next_year = 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 chartJoel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 – {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}} 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.{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=254}}