The British popgroup with Jimmy Somerville. Marianne Rosenberg - Ich bin wie du (1976)ġ9. The original of the song 'Tainted Love' was sung in 1964 by Gloria Jones.ġ8. Singer Marc Almond can also be found on number 93. RuPaul - Supermodel (You better work) (1993) Sort of 'Pet Shop Boys meet Donna Summer in a Village People song'.ġ4. Kylie Minogue - Your disco needs you (2001)Īlbumtrack, which is as far as I know only released in Germany as a single. Shirley Bassey - This is my life (1979)ġ2. In 1993 he had a sex change operation in London and returned as Sharon Cohen.ġ1. Dana International was born as Yaron Cohen in 1972. The 1998 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, where transsexual Dana represented Israel. In 1990 Jimmy Somerville released his version of this song. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (1978) On the internet you can also find a great live version by k.d. In 2001 Geri Halliwell released a new version of this song. The Weather Girls were first known as The Two Tons as backing vocalists to gay disco The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men (1983) In 1989 a remix of this song was released.Ĩ. Miquel Brown is the mother of singer Sinitta. Miquel Brown - So Many Men, So Little Time (1983) The original version of 'Go West' was sung by the Village People, which was a Rose was discovered by Jacques Morali when he worked as a dancer in gay bars in New York. (Jacques Morali / Victor Willis / Henri Belolo)Įven though they had quite a gay appearance and the group was obviously meant for the gay music market, as far as I know only two members of the Village People were gay: The indian Felipe Rose and cowboy Randy Jones. This song was a hit for Franki Valli in 1967 (USA: 2) and for Andy Williams in 1968 (UK: 5). Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (1982) Ross would often open concerts singing the song whenever she was "coming out" to perform.Ĥ. Nile Rodgers said that he got the inspiration behind the song after going to a California discotheque and noticing several drag queens dressing up as none other than Ross. Need I say more, with a song title like that? It was a song from the popular album 'Diana' from 1980 which also featured 'Upside down' and 'My old Piano'.
The first disco album I ever bought was by Gloria Gaynor: Never can say goodbye.Ĭharts: Netherlands: 4 (1979) and 14 (remix, 1988) In 2006 The Puppini Sisters did an Andrew Sisters version of this song on their album 'Betcha Bottom Dollar'. Gloria Gaynor herself also released a Spanish version of this song. Diana Ross (with a VERY gay video clip) and Dutch student band: The Hermes House Band (nr 1 in the Netherlands in 1994). 'I will survive' was originally a B-side to 'Substitute' (which was also a hit by South African girl band Clout), but Radio-DJ's played the B-side due to audience response and it was changed to A-side. Australian singer Kylie Minogue performed the song at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.Ĭharts: Netherlands: 1 (1976) and 15 (1993), Belgium: 1, USA: 1, UK: 1, Germany: 1, Australia: 1 Nice covers of 'Dancing Queen' are by the San Francisco Gay Mens Choir, Luka Bloom and the Sydney gay & lesbian Choir. Nowadays Björn Again is a great Abba-cover-group. The video for the song was directed by Lasse Halström. Abba recorded the song also in Spanish: La Reina del Baile. In the Netherlands 'Dancing Queen' was released twice: in 19. The song is also featured in the musical 'Mamma Mia'. Dancing Queen - which came from the album 'Arrival' became Abba's only number one in the USA and worldwide became their biggest hit single. From then on they conquered the world with songs like 'Money, money, money', 'The winner takes it all' and 'Chiquitita'. The Swedish popgroup ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with 'Waterloo'. (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) Some records are sung by gay artists, some have lyrics that are gay orientated and some are just popular in the gay community (or at least with me). These are - in random order - my personal 100 favorite gay classics.