The disco club scene began influencing the pop charts with Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love's Theme" and pushed the popularity of disco songs like "Rock The Boat" to the pinnacle of the pop charts. Shortly after the early spate of pop hits, the disco club culture and playlist began to diverge from the pop scene. Looking to distance itself from the AM radio formats, the clubs began to search out songs that drew dancers to the floor that were not on radio playlists. During disco fever which was late 1977 to the summer of 1979, there was a surprising overlap of songs played on pop radio, R&B stations and in discotheques. Among those songs were new disco releases by artists whose careers had cooled that revitalized them in the clubs. Jackie Moore was one of those artists. Born in 1946 Jacksonville, Florida she began recording for Shout Records in 1968 and then Wand records the following year before she got signed to Atlantic Records in 1970. That alliance gave her the biggest hit of her career with "Precious, Precious" a #12 R&B hit that peaked at #30 on the pop chart. She continued on placing the odd single on the R&B charts and in 1976 changed labels to Kayvette and released "Disco Body (Shake It To The East, Shake It To The West)" officially recording disco songs with a distinct southern fried soul sound. In late 1978, she signed with Columbia Records and Bobby Eli (Of MFSB and Sigma Studios fame) was assigned to produce her. He assembled the best studio musicians including brothers David and Wayne Lewis who were founding memebers of Atlantic Starr. Using the string/horn section from Don Renaldo & The Philadelphia Horns and Strings along with the "Sweethearts of Sigma", Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson & Evette Benton who were heard over many if not all of the Gamble & Huff songs. Also included in the background singers was Suzi Lane, who was to go on to her own fame with #1 disco hit "Harmony" produced by Giorgio Moroder in 1979. Eli remembered a song that Leroy Bell and Casey James had written called "This Time Baby" that the O'Jays and Eli had recorded for their 1978 LP, "So Full Of Love". Bell & James had a massive club and pop hit with "Livin' It Up (Friday Night)" in 1978. Eli produced the song as if a male would sing it so "This Time Baby" became a soulful, fiery disco song that featured a massively booming back beat, phat phat bass and a percussion crazy cowbell firestorm that got her a #1 disco hit in the summer of 1979.

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