The Trammps - (The Night The Lights Went Out In) New York City • TopPop

The Trammps were an American disco and soul band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. They visited the Toppop studios in the Netherlands many times.
They are best known for their Grammy winning song, "Disco Inferno", originally released in 1976, becoming a UK pop hit and US R&B hit. After inclusion in the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, the song was re-released in 1978 and became an international pop hit worldwide.
The lead vocals are from Jimmy Ellis and the bass vocals are by Earl Young.
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Broadcast date: 1978/3/11
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[@cameraz99]

I was in NYC when the lights went out. And I saw The Trammps live in concert three times in NYC and Long Island. Best disco band ever.

[@j20tower]

Greatest disco group of all time.

[@Linda-mf8vm]

My mom is a lifetime NYer. She was in the Village in NYC when the blackout occurred. Because the streets in the Village tend to criss cross it took her two hours to find her car. She loved the Trammps and always says these were the best days ever. Now, I love disco too (even though I was born in 1991.)

[@GODDESSJCSUPERSTAR]

Love this PHILLY Group. Stay STRONG and Keep Going GREAT MUSIC ! Your Philly Admirer, Josephine C.

[@Derwentcub]

Golden era - great disco sound!

[@traceyscott5957]

An incredible track that's still played in clubs and radios today!

[@richardwillams7086]

One of the best dances songs in the back of the day

[@j20tower]

Best disco group of all time.

[@joannekelly5562]

RIP Jimmy

[@janicehayes1864]

I was in the hospital having my eighth child. What a blessing for our family and yes, the light did go out. However, the hospital had generators but boy was it hot in that hospital

[@donnacolon4248]

i was 14 yrs old when this happened in NYC , we were all outside hanging out , it was to hot to stay indoors .

[@meowlife2662]

Glad I'm old enough to appreciate these fine gentlemen their talent thank you thank you thank you

[@peterbouma1502]

Trammps the best discoband of the seventies.

[@angelbabyprettyface]

It was a day before my Birthday🤩💜

[@manovanbenthem8035]

The best ever

[@guydreamr]

@@angelbabyprettyface What a birthday present, happy birthday. 🎉🎂

[@julioleaty8660]

I couldn't wait for the Trammps 3rd album. When this came out we had moved from WPB to NJ. I can still feel the energy!

[@petervanhout971]

great Tramps

[@vandamme514]

Great great great song

[@stanley2004]

Incredible tune !!! Just exquisite musically.

[@meowlife2662]

I really love this song such a happy song thank you

[@rickys8848]

Fuckin 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 still to this day stay safe people

[@dirkjansen3440]

Disco lives forever

[@scottcorrales2135]

Listening to this after last night's power outage in NYC (July 13, 2019)

[@angelbabyprettyface]

It was a day before my Birthday 🤩💜🍸

[@michelelaraia7358]

Ahahahah 😄

[@michelelaraia7358]

2:29 espressione di Paul Stanley(Stanley Eisen) dei Kiss😃

[@thomaspascualguillen4992]

The frank Lucas kid her

[@SouthBX4ever]

This is a club classic l remember this on Kiss and WBLS would singling this while getting ready to go clubbing 🔥

[@Antertainment531]

I was like 5 years old when that happened!! But these lyrics were real!! LOL

[@betocampos4684]

very good

[@sergiomennini3567]

Grandiosi

[@olivierphilippeghislain-br6705]

Whaaaaa.!!!!.??? L😉L. Merci Alex.. Un Grand Merci Mon Frère J'me Régale😉

[@josefigueroa1066]

Great old disco song!!!

[@DollarBill01984]

Where were you when the lights went out in Wildwood New Jersey on July 7th 2023?

[@rondeneef]

A Voice, he has passed

[@michaeldadzar2199]

I was hanging at the Jersey Shore.... Actually saw them there in 1977...

[@darlenegoodwin]

The Trammps I believe were underrated because they are known for Disco Inferno. They had such great songs like Disco Party, Where the Happy People Go and this.

[@ReneNieuwenhuis]

All these songs were played in every disco worldwide. So, underrated is not correct in my opinion. For example, ‘Shout’ is one off the song I here every weekend in the club anno 2023. 😊

[@henryledford8835]

The first 3 albums on Atlantic Records are classics. My Mother and Father love these guys and I do too💯💯

[@darlenegoodwin]

@@henryledford8835 yes sir

[@jess.1962]

💃💃💃🕺🕺🕺🕺😚👌👌👌👌👌

[@rondeneef]

oeps. . .

[@lollypop7749]

One of my Questions at my 164 reunion Wut year did we have our 1st black out in NYC ..

[@RobertvanMolken]

Where were you went facebook went out in ..... :P

[@rosiemccallister2268]

Ralph Treasvant brought me here in his recent interview with Comic Pierre.

[@angelocaponeasjerrylewis1580]

Did a lot of great dance numbers nothing like early club songs sadly the songs in the later years were to Pop .

[@johnpastore7685]

I was 11

[@mercylago4744]

They were playing this in McDonald's lol

[@carlofilippi2465]

PeZzonee...

[@debraharris7076]

I'M A NEW YORKER AND I WAS THERE WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN NEW YORK CITY. WE PARTY IN FRONT OF OUR STOOPS WITH A BOOM BOX. YASSSSSSS.

[@theodorejohnson7395]

Jimmy Ellis took u to church with his vocals everytime

[@j20tower]

The Kings of the discos. Saw them live many times as my brother was a DJ in the clubs they appeared. Lead singer Jimmy Ellis has an amazing voice. RIP Jimmy

[@jessejohnson6799]

Jimmy Ellis had a magnificent voice May the lord rest his great talented soul

[@julioleaty8660]

There will never be another Jimmy Ellis!

[@Chris-pe1kd]

Jimmy Williams was also good

[@richardwillams7086]

This is great soul music

[@samroetertsteenbruggen5080]

Topband with a topsong, why can't there be a revival of this kind of discomusic. One of the best songs in the seventies.

[@michelelaraia7358]

=

[@cariannette1]

Jimmy Ellis..... One of the GREATEST vocalists EVER! Could have easily sang gospel like Mighty Clouds of Joy or others! What a voice! Miss u Mr. Jimmy!

[@udiggit13]

No doubt

[@michelelaraia7358]

In May 2022 10 years from his death due to Alzheimer in Rock Hill,SC.Disco Inferno on The Voice of Italy Senior,sung by fellow black New Yorker singer/showman/dancer Russell Russell(real surname Spellman).

[@buhans2160]

so do I

[@ronniet71]

LOVE and LIGHT!!!

[@richardjackson9767]

Great set of pipes.

[@mauroambrosio1122]

JimmyEllis, the Voice fantastic

[@williamhester2976]

Great voice

[@hemirt4096]

Why can't people sing in harmony and play a instrument, are you embarrassed because it's not rapping (being cool), we need real music again!

[@dj4monie]

Oh stop people do that. Just because you don't hear it on the radio doesn't mean SH*T. Go to a record store and prove me wrong...

[@dimeadozen134]

Anthony Thomas Music isn’t made like this anymore. Everybody uses computers and auto tune to produce music. This is all talent with no help of an app. The “Artists” of today all are given lyrics by their managers whereas these songs were written by the people that sang them. People who sing these classics today do not count as artists. I’d like YOU to prove me wrong at a record store.

[@Lisa_Evers]

Between this infectious song, the outfits (gold capes!) and the joyous energy of the gold-toothed lead singer, how can you NOT love this video?

[@michelelaraia7358]

😄😃🤓😊☝️🖐️✌️🤞🙏✍️🤳💪🙌✊👌👐🤩😍🇮🇹🌧️

[@nycgurl2u]

That's the late Jimmy Ellis. Put some respect on his name and may his soul RIP.

[@bAkra60]

Saw them live at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ bask in 1983.

[@julioleaty8660]

I wish I would have seen them. I stopped going to Zanzibar around 1980. Used to go to Abe's disco on Salsa night Thursdays. Started going to Fire and Ice later Elegante.

[@traceyscott5957]

Me too! They took off that night and were talked about for years. I was in the back of the crowd and can not remember the color of their outfits?

[@bAkra60]

@@traceyscott5957 it was either white or light blue.

[@traceyscott5957]

@@bAkra60 You got Dat just for remembering what they wore. With respect to you.

[@yachtrockradioshowplaylist3451]

Jimmy Ellis.. RIP I Saw The Trammps Back in the late 70s In North Bergen Nj at St.Rocco's Hall.. they were incredible! I'll never forget!

[@jodesloo2280]

Jimmy Ellis, great, no, best soul singer!

[@philomenaromagnoli1635]

Excellent. Voice. Beautiful. Energy. Where. Were. You when the. Lights. Went. Out. New. York. City. Great. Love. It. The. Trammps. Were. Excellent. And. Will. Live. On. For. Ever. No one. Can. Duplicate this. Group. Ever

[@dc9345]

I listen to this song today July 15,2019

[@bgirl928]

Thats crazy!!! There was a big power outage in NYC today and its July 13th!!!

[@angelmarandola9030]

What made me look up this song is the lights 😂 went out in South Philly last night and this song came to my my mind

[@susangiammarino6610]

Baby Boom - 9months later. Lightning bolts hit transformers or The Trammps? 41 yrs ago. Love 💕 & Peace ✌️ Gold Rocs!

[@joeciminera3204]

The best. This is talent!

[@aldam-rio6964]

I was in Rio de janeiro and was only 19 yo. Great disco times to remember !

[@manuelxavier5659]

THE BEST DISCO BAND

[@ezioviola1]

yes

[@hemirt4096]

Badass 70's!!

[@RandyR]

Very weird. First the song brings back happy memories. Second, today is the anniversary of when it happened back in 77. It just happened again today. Right now. They are saying a major transformer burned out. People are trapped in the elavators an elsewhere

[@HvdBrink]

THIS is Music !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Floridafisherman5000]

The best for sure!!

[@erica0265]

Dat was de goede ouwe tijd ik zou 'm zo over doen mooie muziek 👍

[@johnvanhal2450]

Best decade ever.

[@rcmcopiadorarcmcopiadora6218]

gold tooth and tenor very good

[@michelelaraia7358]

0:28 necklace:"Earl"🤞🇮🇹from what i notice also,Jimmy(the lead singer)had 2 golden upper teeth as well.4 show or 4 real?

[@RandyR]

Back to fun times and far out memories. Get out there, on the dance floor, and it all disappears. Danced to this gem many times.

[@wilsondassumpcao2089]

Well I was in New York on august 14 2003 when the second blackout took place, and I was not making love.

[@morrisman64]

Classic

[@enerrivers4392]

I was 18 yrs old, but, my dad TOOK my car keys in front of any 1. We lived in Clason point, so,we knew better to do dirt in our hood. We went to Westchester ave to loot. No sooner we stepped out my pals car, an national guard told us to return to the car. We ignored him since he was alone. We had boxes of sneakers & on our way out to the car, they swang them batons with style. NO LOOTING FOR US,THANK YOU, NYPD

[@renatosergio8868]

Super Disco Dance

[@bobbyfamig]

Filmed at someplace else club in cherry hill nj

[@dimeadozen134]

First view of the new decade!

[@sandrakennedy9390]

I was in the shower thought I was going blind one of my favorite groups of all times still have my vinyls

[@peterbouma7178]

One of the bestg bands of the seventies very underrated with a great leadvocal in Jimmy Ellis.

[@willhengst4799]

👍👍👍

[@carlosm.devasconcelllos3939]

I can recall this specific moment, the other songs on the radio like Doobie Brothers, Paul Simon with Slip Slidin Away an other stuff, and Star Wars BARELY had been released !

[@MsPolly33]

No idea why they sing "She" was making love in the background...

[@manestage5403]

It sounds like they say “she” then “he”. “She was making love. He was making love.” Could just be my mind trying to make sense of it.😂

[@richardwillams7086]

Great dance song wow

[@drstevie]

so brilliant.

[@jackiebarker4082]

👎🏾👎🏾

[@GunCollector007]

I was a kid in Staten Island. It was awesome

[@unclesalty7778]

Where were you when the city that never sleeps...... was put to sleep!!!! 03/ 04 / 05 / 2020

[@martimdesouzajunior7585]

R.I.P. Ronnie Baker, bassist extraordinare.

[@AALONSO1962]

Thanks...!!! ;)

[@torreslarry6837]

13th of July,, fornication city,,

[@mauriziocorvi157]

the trammps molto disco ....

[@GaryBall-vb2jk]

I felt sorry for the people got caught in elevators. Going up

[@paulmalfliet466]

.vgezi

[@pennypablo1268]

When the lights go out in NYC it is very dark.

[@lesterwilliams3301]

Unsung come on do a show about the tramps

[@monicamonica8507]

❤❤❤

[@wilmadesouzaramos7188]

Pra mim eternos!!!!!!!

[@BrendaCutlip-h5d]

I was in New York

[@KijanaBoyd-ex8rf]

Classic 70s

[@vernonjohnson1291]

Great memories

[@GaryBall-vb2jk]

The lights went out in New York City the pigeons could not find the right direction to go I love this song❤

[@viniciusmoreira780]

Inesquecível !!! Eu me arrepio é me emociono todas ás vezes que assisto esse clipe!!!🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽