Not trying to sound dramatic but this played in the supermarket today and I'm being honest I had to stop myself walking in a strut rhythm

I couldn't have been too much more than 5 or 6 when my aunts took me to a block party down the street from my grandparent's house. It turned out to be more like a full blown disco right there in the street. There was a DJ set up at the end of the block with strobe lights going off, and the street was absolutely packed with people dancing to this song. They were going OFF! People were screaming and singing along with the chorus. Smiles and long hair flying everywhere. It was one of the most memorable musical experiences of my life.

The first time I heard this son I immediately thought "Perfection!" This is the perfect disco song. Will live forever!

These was the good old days.... when you could go out and have fun and enjoy the moment...😂full of energy....

This isn't a song... It's an ANTHEM. An anthem of the 70's

Here is arguably one of the finest productions and disco songs to emerge from the whole 1970's. A masterpiece that will stand the test of time, from the brilliant and powerful vocalist, Thelma Houston. This is her shining moment showcasing the work of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert, all part of Philadelphia's international library. For 1976, "Don't leave me this way'" speaks of production and vocal excellence. This recording will live on forever.

I just can’t get tired of Disco. Growing up in Ft. Lauderdale, Disco was everywhere. Born in ‘67, I started listening as soon as I could. I loved it and still do !! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Who needs drugs when you've got music like this!!!!

46 YEARS OLD TUNE and still rocking!!!

I'm straight and I love disco, I don't care what people say..full of energy

I'm 61 and still love this song like in the days ;) XX In my head, I'm stuck at 28 years old ;)

Gamble&Huff the heart of Tamla Motown, pure soul an' spirit. And Mrs Thelma oh what a voice!

This song is a spiritual experience, whether sung by Thelma or Teddy. Absolute masterpiece.

If the 70s and 80s ask me to go back, I'm oughtta here!!

Imagine being in a packed Disco with this music cranking out of huge speakers. Feel the bass!

Nothing beats the '70s in music; this hit by Thelma Houston proves it.

One of the best dance and club songs of all time IMHO. If this song doesn't stir something in your soul, then I don't know what to say. One of my top 20 favorite songs.

The way she holds that note @ 7:18 is one of the most majestic pieces ever of vocal artistry

I can't stop dancing this is still everything in 2022 thank you Thelma Houston

That humming she dose in the beginning of the song is what gets me.

My frigen FAVORITE!!!! I'm in my 50's now but will dance to this great music till I can't move anymore!!! Have to dance now! BYE

The lighted dance floor. Lights flashing...synced to the music. The bass throbbing to the beat. Thelma ' s intoxicating voice. My boy's arm wrapped around my waist, and our bodies moving together as one. He tells me not to leave him this way.Trust me, I won't.

Man if could have been in NYC in the disco era, I'd be out every weekend

A real soul delivery from a REAL disco era woman . Thelma, I love you !!

N.Y. was the place to be! So many concerts, the hustle and bustle with friends, block parties and non stop good times! I miss those days!

Timeless anthem and is still rocking in 2022, awesome jewel of Disco music💯💯💥💥💥💥👌👌👌👌👌

You love it because the BASS is the lead! Holy shit! What a melodic miracle of syncopated joy! That electric piano is also like the voice of an angel on your shoulder… so funky and immaculate.

I just received the 45 record today off of eBay , brings back a lot of memories on my vintage stereo set up.

Im sti chilling up. It just takes me back! It was my best life!!!

Honestly, it's hard for me to accept in the mind that the 70''s and 80's are over. When something is the best why does it have to change. I wasn't thinking back then that it would never end, but I surely didn't think what has come along now to replace it, would become the norm. If there was a 70''s and 80's Planet or World you could go to and stay as long as you want....Lol I'd be outta here tomorrow!

OMG, I am about to lose my mind!!!!!

I forced my 15 year old daughter to listen to this. Under much sufference she finally agreed. Once it was finished i said to her "Well ? " Her reply..."Wow"

40 yrs later and this song still brings the kids out into the dance floor. true blue classic, one of my favorites.

1976 was a good year!!

I love this song. Outstanding. I was 11 years old when this song broke on AM radio and It shook the airwaves. It still does. Its part of me now.

Who would not want to relive these moments?

This is what disco is all about. Happy i was there to live it.

Glass of wine, some cheese and this song...Got me out of my chair and dancing like it was 1976...WOOHOO

She was the queen of disco until Donna came and took it over in a massive way ,I liked to hear both of them .Two A1 singers for sure.

Sing it Thelma, sing it!!😎😎

I first heard this song on “General Hospital”. It was with Holly and Luke. Fell in last be with it then.

This song brings back so many awesome memories! The first time I heard this, I was at an amusement park on the beach at Wildwood NJ . I was getting on to a wild & crazy ride and this song started to play. Talk about a head trip! lol Excitement of the ride and this song....awesome! This is the song that got me into becoming a DIsco Queen! lol I went dancing for the first time after hearing this & didn't look back! lol

We Love old Disco YES!

Seriously why would anyone 👎this?!? I give it 100! 👍😍

Close your eyes Tilt your head back & just GO THERE

Common sense & great taste brought me here !! 💃🕺🏿🎸🥁🎷🎤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😍🥰

The production on this song...the orchestration...outstanding. You will never see this again. Anywhere. Ever.

to be perfectly honest, out of all the disco songs that we've lost track of, because there's so many of them...this is truly one of disco's anthems.

This song is the best of the best of Disco. It never gets old.

I'm back!! I need a dose of this every once in a while!! Takes me right back to a much happier time! One of the best!!😉

thank you contra

Not a disco lover, but this song is AWESOME!!! Been lovin' since the 70's!!!

Still gives chills in 2018

I love to listen to this and the version from Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the song is so brilliant that there could never be too many versions. Thelma sings it like she means every word

Hard to believe but the producer did not think this song would be a hit, muchless that it would end up being Thelma's signature hit. Just shows that the Public knows what it likes.

I am thankful I got to experience the 70s! The GREATEST music of that Era. Can't compare to the trash "music" of today

Love how it's 9 minutes long, but the record says "Short Version"

This isn't a song, it's more like a religious experience! LOL! Great song! One of my faves!

It was a grand time. I fondly recall the sounds, lights, people, and energy.

It was so much fun dancing at the discos back then. The pounding bass, the hot shirtless guys on a crowded dance floor, passing poppers around...

Thelma was seriously underrated. She had one of the most gorgeous vocal instruments. Perfection...and this song is EVERYTHING.

Love this song 👍🌹💯

Great hustle dance classic for couples, a forgotten golden era of class and fashion for the in crowd 73-77.

I am 65 years old and for some reason this song makes me want to get out of my chair and move. oh hell yes !!

The strings are just gorgeous...

iI WAS JUST 9 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS SONG WAS RELEASED AND I STILL LOVE IT NOW IN 2024!!!!! 😄😃😀😁😆

Bring it back good old days I miss it 🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹👍👍👍👍

Guillaume Lods, thanks for sharing. A Disco Blast from the past!

those were good times!!

Would have to be one of the best songs from its era. Never tired of listening to it. Timeless

The definition of a classic.

This is DISCO!!!! i Llove it!

👍 Great 💃 Disco remix version! The 💃 Disco-Era Of The 1970’s Lives On Forever!

You go, Miss Thelma, get them toes atappin' under the Disco ball !

So relaxing to listen to real talent and soulful music opposed to what they call music today...

Gonna go ahead and update this. We were on the way home tonight after being out for the 1st time in a year (yes, we are vaccinated). I was just talking about how amazing it is that the world we live in allows us to actually be friends with all these disco divas like Thelma and Jeanie Tracey, Evelyn Champagne King, Martha Wash etc., etc., I get to either chat with them or see them yearly. It's amazing. Once upon a time it was only a dream. This music and these ladies are only here once and ain't we lucky to get to know them? Thank you Thank you Thank you. Much love!

This Badass tune will kick your ass out on the dance floor!, if you want to lose weight, just dance to this over & over!, non stop action, love this song!

UPDATE MAY 16,2021..."Geeze, I never could have imagined so many comments and still coming three years later. Ive since been diagnosed with Lupus and Cancer and do not have much time left, but I wrote a book, a sit-com based on a period in the book and also the screenplay to the book and all were just purchased with my working title at this time being "Trapped in Paradise" , While I was negotiating those, I wrote and sold a 22 episode dark hour long drama called "Jon Doe: Barely Legal" and the pilot and 10 episodes will be produced at once, akin to many Streaming Services, however, one of the more, first Pay-Tv services purchased the rights and I wrote a 38K word stage play called "Blinded" which is very sad, but inspirational. Even though my credits range from Writer, Creator, Co-EP, (My lawyers fought, screamed and swore over shit like a parking spot near all production sites! WTF? I left the buildings and walked midtown Manhattan and went to an estate sale and let them duke it out. BTW, I had to sue a company with the letters "GAE" in there name, with a second name that looks like LOVE and they shouldn't be able to negotiate terms, but am I bitter? Absolutely, but I won every appeal THANK YOU 4TH DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALI JUDGES, I got almost 40% in Compensatory and a bit over Double in Punitive Damages, so even though much of my time has run out, many of my closest friends and charities will be well taken care of (ASPCA, Humane Society of Kanawha Valley, WV, Flagler County/Palm Coast, Fla, Volusia County, Fla, The Keys Humane Society, plus two new charities for teenage suicide prevention and homes for children that have been kicked out of their homes by their parents with 2 years of college and rent paid, as well as a new charity that promotes the adoption of older, maimed or just plain...not that cute cats and dogs, please adopt the ugly but loveable pets, they never get adopted, everyone wants pretty pets. "Linda's Cottage" in my moms memory, will be a real home, that can be rented out with real furniture and with whole property is screen enclosed and animals will live the rest of their lives in these homes with TVs and a kitchen for people to use, as if it was a real home, for the ones that no one finds pretty anymore or perhaps only has three legs, lol. ) sorry got off track,...continuing....and have pretty much Carte Blanche with Creative Control, I probably wont last to see them air (Perhaps the stage play), "Trapped" is based on my life, focusing on my life as a DJ in Central Florida (Daytona Beach/Yum Yum Tree, Landmark Complex, ORLANDO/P-House, Full Moon Saloon, Firestone Club, Cellblock M, Disney's Mannequins, Jacksonville/College Station Ft Lauderdale/S.Fla, The Copa, Backstreets, Tackys, Shangra la, Club 21, The Warsaw Ballroom, Fire and Ice, I-Beam, Eagle, Ramrod, Cubby Hole, Cathode Ray, Club BC, Montreal, Que/TRAXX, La Marielle, I Bar Ste Catherine, NYC/Tunnel, USA, Limelight, The Saint, Windows on the World NEWHOPE/BUCKS COUNTY, PA/PHILLY, The Cartwheel, Key West, The Bike Stop, and other clubs in Allentown, Pa , Hyannis, Mass, P-Town, Rehoboth Beach, De, Savanah, Ga, Backstreets, Atlanta, Atlanta Eagle, and too many I cant think of but much of it focuses from age 16 to 33. It all stops in 2000, I'm trying to finish the most crazy part of my life that included my spouse poisoning me for life insurance, going to jail for someone I cared for (Until I went to bond out and realized they did shit in 7 counties and I was like, NOPE, I'm not THAT kind! God Bless Everyone... and remember, tell your momma you love her every day. Stop having so much hate, I know its hard, especially with half the country losing their effing mind in the past 4 to 5 years. (WTF was/is that shit about? People literally elected an airhead that went on camera and said the wildfires in Cali were started by lasers in space made by Jews! When I hear all of this, I kind of feel bad for you all when I go. I will tell you, If some of these haters are correct (Yeah, that was me coughing a lung up) and I end up in hell, then one of two things will happen. I know who I am, what I have done, havent done, what breaks my heart and whos back Ive always had and Im not saying any of us deserve God or Heaven, perhaps something else, but if I go to hell, then that wasnt the God I thought he was and I can assure you, all of you with the hateful, usually closeted mouths, you now who you are, the ones with the families but are at your local BK Gl** Hole on your way home to the kids, while myself, I simply was getting a burger and fry, so Im sure I will see you all as well. And please, dont give me no lip, Im dying, I dont give two sh"ts what you think, you are most likely a closet case, miserable in life, hurt animals and children or worse. See ya on the Flip Flop and dont forget to ..."Let the Music Play, Turn the beat around and a white witch enchantress once said, "There are Poets, and they are Priests of Nothing, but they are Legends" ORIGINAL These kids don't know what fun is... This was when clubs were fun, no ID, no law, no attitude, no REALLY dangerous drugs, $3.35 per hour and we were rich. 25¢ drink nights, $2 beer bust, 99 cent Dennys Grand Slam Breakfast after the night. Strippers and drag queens doing shows down the aisle at Dennys or Waffle House.... NO HATE... GOOD TIMES... ALL GONE

Disco Music Won't Change it for anything Great Memories from WBLS in New York and The Saturday night Mixes

Great memories way back into the eighties,,,,,,as fresh as ever

Ipanema! I miss those disco/hustle till you drop days!

I love Disco Music-I don't know why that era just faded out. It was so fun with great music. I keep it alive by listening to these great singers like Thelma Houston, Candi Staton, Yvonne Elliman, the Bee Gees etc.

I loved this song, I was in the Navy and remember dancing to this in Naples, Italy along with these, my favorites also. Diana Ross - Love Hangover Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme

I remember hearing this song when it first hit the airwaves way back when. I fell in love with it instantly. I also remember looking on the album cover and seeing Thelma Houston for the first time and falling instantly in love with her too. I still love this song just as much as I did as when I first heard it and am still love struck for Thelma Houston even after all these years. Marry me Thelma.

The first time I heard this song, it was in the summer of 76, I think, I was on my way fishing and it caught my attention, I fell in love that instant. Been in my heart ever since! This song was before it's time! Magnificent hit!!!!!!!

This music is from one of the greatest musical eras of all time, an era when your car did not have to have an 8 track, just a radio, am or am fm.

During this pandemic I had the chance of reminiscing and to hear this amazing all time favorite, put me in a happier time and place in my life. Love this and it’s my anthem from my youth. ❤️. Thelma you rock baby 💖

Man oh man, this sure brings back the memories. The nightclubs, the girls, the dancin'. When the dj started this song, if it took you even one second to get to the dance floor, you were way late, lol. Everyone just piled on to the floor, not dancing with anyone in particular. Just everyone having a great time.

Not just one of her best, one of the best of the disco era! Club Classic extraordinary. Originally part of the lyrics output of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Thelma Houston made this a global smash in March 1976

Along with 7,000 other new year's eve party-goers, I saw Thelma Houston sing this song live on Dec. 31, 1984 in San Francisco.

This song is so powerful and strong you could walk on it even in 2018 thank you for posting.

Thanks for the memories. Danced to this treasure many times. Still sounds great.

When I hear this song I think of the warm summer nights hanging with my friends on a street corner. It brings me back to the cool air of a disco when you first get inside... by the time the music begins to pump up and get going the air is hot, full of fog and pretty girls dancing in their sexy dresses or bell bottom jeans. Great memories!!!! Leave politics out of this and just remember the times you had when this song was spinning on a platter of a dee jays turntable.

this song...oh...talk about dancing, one of the best

The opening sounds of this tune was the Pied Piper calling us all out to the dance floor- pure magic under the mirror balls -

Boy I miss all the good music and times back then ,today's music is so disappointing ☹️

This is the best version of this particular song. I remember dancing in discos to this back in the 70's! Great fun and memories!

Bass line in ICONIC. Her vocals are out of this world, love the first 53 seconds of this song, the most.

This is awesome! Also 96 tears!

One of my favorite disco songs. My late husband and I saw her perform as a surprise guest at the Trocadero Transfer in San Francisco several decades ago.