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T-Connection was a
funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...
and
disco Disco is a music genre, genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightclub, nightlife, particularly in African Americans, African-American, Italian-Americans, Italian-American, LGBTQ ...
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from Nassau,
the Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of ...
, who scored two
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on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 between 1977 and 1979. They did better on the US
Hot Dance Music/Club Play The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...
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, where they had five Top 10 hits, including " Do What You Wanna Do", which reached #1, and "Everything Is Cool", which peaked at #10 on the US ''
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'' R&B chart. In the
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, they scored five entries in the UK Singles Chart, with "Do What You Wanna Do" their highest placed success at #11. Their track "Groove to Get Down" has been heavily
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due to its inclusion on the 1986 ''
Ultimate Breaks and Beats ''Ultimate Breaks and Beats'' (also commonly abbreviated as UBB) was a series of 25 compilation albums released from 1986 to 1991 by Street Beat Records and edited by "BreakBeat Lou" Flores and "BreakBeat Lenny" Roberts. Featured on the albums w ...
'' series. Group members included the brothers Theophilus "T" and Kirkwood Coakley, plus guitarists David Mackey and Monty Brown and drummer Anthony Flowers.
Calvin Harris Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), known professionally as Calvin Harris (and sometimes under the stage name Love Regenerator), is a Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter. His debut studio album, ''I Created Disco'' (2007 ...
has stated that "Do What You Wanna Do" was a formative influence on him when he was beginning to produce music at a young age Calvin Harris speaks to Dave Pearce https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p010z439


Discography


Albums

* ''
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TK Records TK Records was an American independent record label founded by record distributor Henry Stone and Steve Alaimo in 1972. and based in Hialeah, Florida. The record label went bankrupt in 1981. "TK" was inspired by the initials of sound engineer ...
, 1977) * '' On Fire'' (TK Records, 1978) * ''T-Connection'' (TK Records, 1978) * ''Totally Connected'' (TK Records, 1980) * ''Everything Is Cool'' (Capitol, 1981) * ''Pure & Natural'' (Capitol, 1982) * ''The Game of Life'' (Capitol, 1983) * ''Take It to the Limit'' (Capitol, 1984)


Singles


See also

*
List of Billboard number-one dance club songs ''Billboard'' magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing dance music songs in the United States since 1974. Originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart ...
* List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart


References


External links

* {{Authority control Disco groups Bahamian musical groups