Macho Man (song)
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| Single by Village People | ||||||||
| from the album Macho Man | ||||||||
| B-side | "Just a Gigolo" | |||||||
| Released | February 1978 | |||||||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||||||
| Recorded | Sigma Sound Studios, New York City 1977 |
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| Genre | Disco | |||||||
| Length | 3:30 (7" 45 rpm) 5:21 (12"/LP) |
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| Label | Casablanca Records | |||||||
| Writer(s) | Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, Victor Willis and Peter Whitehead | |||||||
| Producer(s) | Jacques Morali | |||||||
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"Macho Man" is the second single recorded by the American disco group Village People. It is the title song of the eponymous album (1978).
The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 24, 1978 (when the album had already been charting since March) before picking up more airplay that August. It became the Village People's first charting hit in the United States, peaking on the Hot 100 at number 25 on the week of September 2. and even "something of a phenomenon".
A medley with "I Am What I Am" and "Key West" reached number 4 on Billboard's Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart. On the survey of Chicago radio superstation WLS-AM, "Macho Man" spent two weeks at number 3.
Village People cowboy Randy Jones recalled, "The Monday after Thanksgiving (1977), we signed contracts and the Tuesday after, we were in studio recording "Macho Man," with Victor Willis' handwritten lyrics that were written in the morning with egg stains and coffee rings on it. Everything was happening that quickly."
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