Philadelphia legends The Trammps are hot again, thanks to a certain presidential hopeful using one of their biggest songs. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been heating up the campaign trail using the ...

Jimmy Ellis, the lead singer of the hit "Disco Inferno" from '70s R&B/funk group The Trammps, died Thursday in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He was 74. Ellis's daughter, Erika Stinson, told the New York ...

Led by Ellis' booming baritone, the Trammps had their first chart success with 1972's cover version of Judy Garland's "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," but it wasn't until the release of the 1973 ...

The dance smash was inspired by "The Towering Inferno" and later caught fire thanks to another film: "Saturday Night Fever." By Keith Caulfield THE TRAMMPS’ CLASSIC “DISCO INFERNO” — about a red-hot ...

Jimmy Ellis of The Trammps, performs onstage during a concert. Ellis died Thursday at the age of 74. AP ROCK HILL, SC — James T. “Jimmy” Ellis, who belted out the refrain “Burn, baby burn!” in a 1970s ...

In this 2007 photo, singer Jimmy Ellis, of The Trammps, performs onstage during a concert at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, S.C. Ellis, the "Disco Inferno" singer who battled Alzheimers ...

Jerry Collins, a former singer in the disco group the Trammps, was convicted of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault for attacking his wife twice last year. Collins, 44, was found… By ...

The Trammps, best remembered for the once-ubiquitous "Disco Inferno", enjoyed their biggest British success with the Philly groove of "Hold Back the Night" in 1975. Convened three years earlier by the ...

The soulful, gravelly voiced tenor Jimmy Ellis was the frontman of the Trammps, the Philadelphia-based group best remembered for the 1970s hits "Hold Back the Night" and "Disco Inferno". His emphatic ...