Trammps keyboard player Ron Kersey wrote this song with Leroy Green. They were inspired by a scene in the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno where a disco on top of a building is on fire.
"Disco Inferno" was first released in 1976 on the album of the same name. It was popular in dance clubs, but made it to just #53 on the US charts. In 1977, the song was used in the movie Saturday Night Fever, and in 1978 it was re-released as a single, going to #11. The scene where the song was used in the movie was shot at the 2001 Club in New York, where The Trammps would often perform.
The raging fire in this song is a metaphor for the musical heat on the dance floor, but the refrain "burn, baby, burn" was also a phrase chanted at the Watts Riots in 1965 as fires raged throughout the Los Angeles neighborhood.
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