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The Trammps (Jimmy Ellis, bottom right) Jimmy Ellis, charge singer from the Trammps, the background music group that made popular the seventies anthem "Disco Inferno," has died. He was 74. Ellis died inside a Rock Hill, S.C. elderly care of complications from Alzheimer's, his daughter told The NY Occasions. See other stars we lost this season Born in Sc, Ellis created The Trammps in early seventies. The band's first recording, a remake of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," arrived at No. 17 around the R&B charts. Their greatest hit arrived 1977 when their single "Disco Inferno" was utilized within the film Saturday Evening Fever. The song arrived at No. 11 around the Billboard pop chart and also the movie's soundtrack rose to No. 1. The album later won the Grammy for album of the season in 1979. Take a look at much more of present day news Ellis is made it by his wife, two children, three siblings, one sister, eight grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.