Philadelphia legends The Trammps are hot again, thanks to a certain presidential hopeful using one of their biggest songs. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been heating up the campaign trail using the ...

Jimmy Ellis, the lead singer of the hit "Disco Inferno" from '70s R&B/funk group The Trammps, died Thursday in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He was 74. Ellis's daughter, Erika Stinson, told the New York ...

Disco never died, it was merely driven into the closet by bad acts. So insists Earl Young, founder of the Trammps and the deep, mellow voice of “Disco Inferno,” “Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart,” ...

DECATUR — In the 1970s, drummer Earl Young and his band, The Trammps, were synonymous with the disco sound in America. Young had been one of the major creators of the genre that came to be defined as ...

Get ready to burn, baby, burn in Syracuse. The Trammps featuring Earl Young will headline the rescheduled Discofest 2016 concert this Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Center of Progress Building at the New ...

Led by Ellis' booming baritone, the Trammps had their first chart success with 1972's cover version of Judy Garland's "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," but it wasn't until the release of the 1973 ...

The Trammps’ concert at Flashbacks in Allentown on June 4 was surreal. As the 1970s disco group played its hit, “Disco Inferno,” John Travolta in the movie, “Saturday Night Fever,” cavorted on the ...

Jimmy Ellis, the lead singer of the hit "Disco Inferno" from '70s R&B/funk group The Trammps, died Thursday in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He was 74. Ellis's daughter, Erika Stinson, told the New York ...

The soulful, gravelly voiced tenor Jimmy Ellis was the frontman of the Trammps, the Philadelphia-based group best remembered for the 1970s hits "Hold Back the Night" and "Disco Inferno". His emphatic ...

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — James T. "Jimmy" Ellis, who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby burn!" in a 1970s-era disco dance hit that's still replayed in modern sports arenas, has died. He was 74. David ...