Jimmy Ellis

Lead singer with the Trammps, performers of Disco InfernoThe career of the vocalist Jimmy Ellis, who has died aged 74 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was ultimately defined by one song. The band he fronted, the Trammps, had other US and UK hits in the era when the lushly orchestrated soul music released on the Philadelphia International label was gradually mutating into disco, but they were all overshadowed by Disco Inferno.The song had already been a success on the US R&B chart when...

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