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Rock Your Baby

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Rock Your Baby is a Disco act. They run in the same orbit as We Are Family, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Hot Stuff, I'm Every Woman and Night Fever, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Gwen McCrae, The House of Love, John Lennon, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Rock Your Baby and forward to Gwen McCrae. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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"Rock Your Baby" is the debut single by American singer George McCrae. Written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band, "Rock Your Baby" became an early landmark recording of disco. It was the only international hit for McCrae. The song spent two weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in July 1974, and three weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart that same month. The song also topped the Billboard R&B chart. The single has sold over 11 million copies, making it one of fewer than forty singles to have sold 10 million physical copies worldwide.

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Rock Your BabyGwen McCraeThe House of LoveJohn LennonBenny AnderssonBjörn UlvaeusABBAWe Are FamilyYou Make Me Feel (Mi…Hot StuffI'm Every WomanNight Fever

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Rock Your Baby connections

Rock Your Baby shares an orbit with We Are Family, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Hot Stuff and I'm Every Woman, went on to shape Gwen McCrae, The House of Love, John Lennon and Benny Andersson. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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