George McCrae is an American singer who recorded one of the records that helped invent disco. "Rock Your Baby", released in 1974 and built by the team behind the Miami soul label TK, paired his smooth falsetto with a light, hypnotic drum-machine groove, and it became a worldwide number-one smash, widely cited as one of the first true disco hits.
McCrae kept recording and remained popular in disco circles, but nothing he made approached the cultural impact of "Rock Your Baby".
On streaming, "Rock Your Baby" sits near 128 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at around nine million. That sends the ratio above 14, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure George McCrae is a certified one-hit wonder, with the caveat that his lone hit was genuinely a landmark, a record that helped point the way to an entire era of dance music. His catalogue, on the numbers, rests almost entirely on that one silky, groundbreaking groove, which stands far ahead of everything else he recorded. As one of the records that helped launch the disco era, it has never lost its shimmer, and on streams it still draws the crowd that the rest of his work never reached.