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"Rock Your Baby" was one of the
landmark recordings of early disco music. It was also one of the
first records to use a drum machine, an Roland rhythm machine.
The track was not originally intended for George McCrae but he
happened to be in the studio and added a vocal; the resulting
combination of infectious rhythm and falsetto vocals made it a
massive global hit. Abba's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
have cited the song as an inspiration for the backing track of
their 1976 smash hit "Dancing Queen". In a 1975 interview, John
Lennon said of "Rock Your Baby" that "I'd give my eyetooth to
have written that". Released in May 1974, the song topped the
hitlists in almost all countries around the world and with a total of
10,287,000 points it landed finally at the runner-up spot on the
Year-End Chart 1974. |
