The Trammps: Disco's Favourite Sons
John Abbey, Blues & Soul, August 1979
IF THERE is such a thing as disco-land's favourite group, then that would surely have to be Trammps – five young men from Philadelphia who have been making disco records since before the word was used in everyday language and who today are still going as strong as ever.
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