Everybody's Dancin' is a studio album by the American band Kool &amp; the Gang, released in 1978. It peaked at No. 71 on "Billboard"'s Top Black Albums chart.
Reception.
In 1978, despite their music's recent feature in "Saturday Night Fever", Kool &amp; the Gang were "at a low point" of commercial decline.
The "Rolling Stone" wrote that the band struggled to maintain its relevance in the disco world, despite a prominent horn section. Speaking of the circa-1978 era, drummer George "Funky" Brown stated, "We tried our version of disco. It didn't work." 
The "Detroit Free Press" opined that "Kool and the Gang have gone bland," noting that "they've joined the disco lemmings...The edge has gone".
Predecessor to commercial success.
The year of its release, the band played at a record store to promote "Everybody's Dancin"'. When nobody showed up for the performance, the band was "humiliated". Ronald Bell recalled that a teenager visiting the store told the band "something they all vaguely sensed": that despite the success of "Jungle Boogie" (1973), "Hollywood Swinging" (1974), and "Funky Stuff" (1973), Kool &amp; the Gang was "now...washed up". Bell claimed he took it as a wake-up call to "make something pop" the next time the band was in the studio. 
The following year, producer Eumir Deodato arranged for traditional choruses, a front man vocalist (J. T. Taylor) and the band released "Ladies' Night." It was their first major success and their first album to go platinum.
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