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Hustle - The (ver. 1) by Van McCoy - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"The Hustle" is a hit disco song by songwriter/arranger Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony. The song was a huge crossover hit. It reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Soul Singles chart during the summer of 1975. . It would eventually sell over one million copies and is one of the most popular songs of the disco era. The song also won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. While in New York City to make an album, McCoy was inspired to record the song after his music partner, Charles Kipps, watched patrons do an elegant dance called "the hustle" at the Adam's Apple club. The sessions were done at New York's Media Sound with pianist McCoy, bassist Gordon Edwards, drummers Steve Gadd and Rick Marotta, keyboardist Richard Tee, guitarists Eric Gale and John Tropea, and orchestra leader Gene Orloff. Producer Hugo Peretti brought in piccolo player Philip Bodner to.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an accomplished musician, music producer and arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is best known for his massive 1975 international hit "The Hustle", which is still played on dance floors and radio today, 30 years after his death. He has around 700 song copyrights to his credit and is also notable for producing such recording artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & The Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb, and Stacy Lattisaw. McCoy was born on January 6, 1940, in Washington, D.C. the second child of Norman S. McCoy, Sr. and Lillian Ray, and grew up there. He started to play piano at a young age and sang with the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir as a kid, and was writing his own songs in addition to performing in local amateur shows alongside older brother, Norman Jr., by the time he was 12. The two formed a doo-wop combo called the Starlighters with two friends while in high school, and issued the single "The Birdland", a novelty dance record, in 1956, gaining some interest that led to their touring with drummer Vi Burnsides..
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