We were at least as surprised as you to find out that Y.M.C.A is missing from our collection.
So, the good news is that starting from today, you will find Y.M.C.A by Village People on our website.
Village People is an American band, formed back in 1977 as a disco group, originally formed by Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, and Victor Willis.
The interesting fact about Village People is that they targeted a gay audience, as the name of the band also says – referring to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, a gay neighborhood.
The amazing Y.M.C.A is a song recorded by Village People in 1978 and released in October same year, as the only single from their third studio album named Cruisin’ – 1978.
The free Y.M.C.A piano sheet music has a length of 4:47 minutes in its original version and it was released by Casablanca records label.
The song was written by Jacques Morali, Victor Willis, and Henri Belolo – co-credited on the original release, and produced by Morali himself.
The single was released as a disco song and embraced unexpected success, remaining popular until today, being played at many sports events in Europe and the US, everybody dancing the specific moves seen in the music video.
Y.M.C.A set a Guinness World Record when over 44,000 people danced to Village People's live performance of the song at the 2008 Sun Bowl game in El Paso, Texas, and has set a lot of other records, as for example being number 7 on The 100 Greatest Dance Songs of the 20th Century.
Another specific event about the free Y.M.C.A. piano sheets worth mentioning is that in 2020, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The music video accompanying the song was filmed in New York City and features the band singing and dancing the song, with the specific and famous moves which describe the letters of the title.
The title of the song and lyrics come from the Young Men’s Christian Association, providing SRO spaces with 66,959 beds available.
