Gene Chandler's "Get Down" (Special Mix) is widely regarded as one of the era's better disco numbers.

Reviewers from Rate Your Music note that Chandler’s voice remained in excellent form, sounding far more versatile than his early doo-wop years. The track features a "relaxed groove" that perks up into a female-vocal-led climax.

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While there is no single song universally titled "Get Down (Disco Mix)," the phrase most famously refers to which underwent a significant transformation into a 12-inch "Special Mix" that defined disco's transition into the late '70s. Reviews of this era highlight it as a masterful comeback for Chandler, who was previously known as the "Duke of Earl" in the 1960s. Gene Chandler: The "Special Mix" (1978)