T-Connection was a funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 group

Musical ensemble

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 from Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

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, the Bahamas

The Bahamas

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, who scored two hits

Hit record

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 on the Billboard Hot 100

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 between 1977 and 1979. They did better on the US

United States

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 Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart

Record chart

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, where they had five Top 10 hits, including "Do What You Wanna Do", which reached #1

Record chart

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, and "Everything Is Cool", which peaked at #15 on the US Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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R&B

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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 chart. In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, they posted five entries in the UK Singles Chart

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, with "Do What You Wanna Do" their highest placed success at #11.

Group members included the brothers

Sibling

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, Theophilus "T" and Kirkwood Coakley, plus David Mackey and Anthony Flowers.

Singles

• 1976: "Disco Magic" - US Hot Dance Music/Club Play #16
• 1977: "Do What Ya Wanna Do" - US Billboard Hot 100
  Billboard Hot 100
  The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
  
   #46; US R&B
  Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
  Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
  
   #15; UK
  UK Singles Chart
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   #11
• 1977: "On Fire" - US Hot Dance Music/Club Play #5; UK #16
• 1978: "Let Yourself Go" - US Hot Dance Music/Club Play #7; UK #52
• 1978: "On Fire" - US R&B #27
• 1979: "At Midnight" - US Billboard Hot 100 #56; US R&B #32; US Hot Dance Music/Club Play #3; UK #53
• 1979: "Saturday Night" - US R&B #28; UK #41
• 1982: "A Little More Love" - US R&B #37

Albums

• Magic (Dash/TK
  TK Records
  TK Records was an American record label started by record distributor, Henry Stone in Miami, Florida, one of several labels that he founded in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  ) 1977
  • "Do What Ya Wanna Do"
  • "Disco Magic"
  • "Go Back Home"
  • "Got to See My Lady"
  • "Crazy Mixed up World"
  • "Mothers Love"
  • "Monday Morning"
  • "Peace Line"
• On Fire (Dash/TK) 1978
  • "On Fire"
  • "Prisoner of My Mind"
  • "Lady of the Night"
  • "Watching You"
  • "Let Yourself Go"
  • "Groove to Get Down"
  • "Cush"
  • "Playin' Games"
• T-Connection (Dash/TK) 1979
  • "Funkannection"
  • "Coming Back for More"
  • "Funky Lady"
  • "Don't Stop the Music"
  • "Saturday Night"
  • "At Midnight"
  • "Midnight Train"
  • "Love Supreme"
• Totally Connected (Dash/TK) 1980
  • "Totally Connected"
  • "Ecstasy"
  • "Let's Do It Today"
  • "I Like Funkin' with You"
  • "Choosing"
  • "That's Love"
  • "Danger Zone"
  • "Born to Boogie"
• Everything Is Cool (Capitol) 1981
  • "Groove City"
  • "Spend the Night with Me"
  • "Spinnin'"
  • "Paradise"
  • "Everything Is Cool"
  • "Give Me Your Love"
  • "Heaven in Your Eyes"
  • "We've Got a Good Thing"
• Pure & Natural (Capitol) 1982
  • "Girl Watching"
  • "Party Night"
  • "A Little More Love"
  • "Slippin' Away"
  • "Might as Well Dance"
  • "Rushing Through the Crowd"
  • "The Best of My Love"
  • "Goombay Time"
• The Game Of Life (Capitol) 1983
  • "The Game of Life"
  • "Love Odyssey (Love Shines Forever)"
  • "Superstar"
  • "Is It Real"
  • "Closer to Home"
  • "Tonight's the Night"
  • "I've Got News for You"
  • "Time Is Short"
  • "Say That You Love Me"
• Take It To The Limit (Capitol) 1984
  • "Take It to the Limit"
  • "Right Place, Wrong Time"
  • "You Can Feel the Groove"
  • "In Another Life"
  • "Anything Goes"
  • "Travellin' Man"
  • "Burnin' with Desire"
  • "You Found Someone New"

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart