My Feet Keep Dancing

{{Infobox song

| name = My Feet Keep Dancing

| cover = Chicmyfeetkeepdancing.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Chic

| album = Risqué

| B-side = Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)

| released = December 1979 {{Cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Chic&titel=My+Feet+Keep+Dancing&cat=s|title=Chic singles}}

| recorded = 1979

| studio = Power Station, New York City

| venue =

| genre = Disco{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=56}}

| length = 6:38 (album version)
3:51 (single version)

| label = Atlantic (3683)

| writer = {{flatlist|

}}

| producer = {{flatlist|

  • Bernard Edwards
  • Nile Rodgers

}}

| prev_title = My Forbidden Lover

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Rebels Are We

| next_year = 1980

}}

"My Feet Keep Dancing" is the third single from Chic's third studio album Risqué. It features a co-lead vocal by Luci Martin and Bernard Edwards and a tap dance solo by Fayard Nicholas (of the Nicholas Brothers), Eugene Jackson (of Our Gang), and Sammy Warren.

Cash Box described it as an "ear-catching dance concoction, with its rhythmic use of strings."{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=November 24, 1979|page=24|newspaper=Cash Box|accessdate=2022-01-01|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1979/CB-1979-11-24.pdf}} Record World called it "a fine example of how Chic sets the standards for today's dance music."{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=November 24, 1979|accessdate=2023-02-11|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/79/RW-1979-11-24.pdf}}

Track listings

;Atlantic 7" 3638, 1979

  • A. "My Feet Keep Dancing" (7" Edit) - 3:51
  • B. "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" - 4:05

;Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 220

  • A. "My Feet Keep Dancing" - 6:38
  • B. "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" - 4:05

Chart

It reached #21 on the UK singles chart in January 1980, spending 9 weeks on the chart. It failed to enter US Billboard R&B chart Top 40 peaking at #42. On the disco chart, "My Feet Keep Dancing, along with the cuts, "Good Times" and "My Forbidden Lover" went to #3.

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