Funny how history remembers 1979 as the moment disco “died.”

Because on the ground… it didn’t feel like that at all.

Records kept coming. Shops kept stocking them. And I kept buying them.

Even imports, like Debbie Jacobs’ High On Your Love in 1980. I remember paying extra just to get my hands on it… and playing it endlessly.

Turns out I wasn’t alone.

On this day in 1980, the title track, along with Hot Hot (Give It All You Got), hit No.1 on the US dance chart.

Disco didn’t disappear.

It just kept moving… where people were still dancing.

By the way: I came across a rather peculiar video of the song on American Bandstand. You hear the track, but the artist isn’t there—it’s basically people dancing, a bit like Soul Train, but with a mostly white crowd. I didn’t realise American Bandstand also did that kind of dance-floor footage?