Song #375: "Never Can Say Goodbye"--Gloria Gaynor (1975)

This song didn't necessarily scream "Disco Is Coming!!!" when WRVA or WLEE played it, but it certainly belongs with "Rock The Boat" from Hues Corporation in the category of songs that ushered in the era (see below). A staple of radio in the same year that brought us "Philadelphia Freedom", "Why Can't We Be Friends" and "Love Will Keep Us Together", and a song that you had to record on your cassette for later listening.

Interestingly, the song was first intended for the Supremes, ended up with the Jackson Five, and then, nearly four years later, Gaynor scored with it. The song was the debut number one song on a burgeoning "Billboard Disco" chart.

The version posted here is definitely NOT the radio edit. At over six minutes, music directors, and certainly program directors, would have had collective cows.  :)