July 2, 201510 yr Yes, or some kind of DJ-influenced chart. Anyway, no worries :D (You may have noticed I've hi-jacked the idea for indie singles - hope that's ok!)
July 2, 201510 yr Author Black Box - Fantasy http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/014%20Fantasy_2.jpg Date 4th Nov 1990 5 Weeks Official Chart Run 21-9-5-6-6-10-20-33-35-39-56 (11 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. And here they are - the band that has been mentioned three times already in this rundown without actually featuring. Most of us know the story of how this all started. Dance music was far from authentic or ethical but Black Box took the biscuit a bit more than most - expecting the public to believe that those vocals came out of the slight frame of model Katrin Quinol. That pretence on top of uncleared sample wrangles with Loleatta Holloway made them seem like tricksters of Milli Vanilli proportions. But who cared when the could produce magic like Ride On Time? They were cheeky enough to use all the bits of Holloway's Love Sensation that they didn't use in Ride On Time for their follow up single I Don't Know Anybody Else. The formula was wheeled out for a third single Everybody Everybody but chart positions started to disappoint. Neither of those managed to top our countdown but that all changes now with Fantasy. A slight change in direction and drop in tempo, Fantasy catapults them back to the upper reaches of the chart to become the best selling dance single for 5 weeks. This was a direct cover of an Earth, Wind and Fire song which was a hit in 1978 - but Black Box being Black Box it wouldn't be as simple as that. The vocals were again not done by Katrina, though she still fronted the band. An uncredited Martha Wash was drafted in to sing this after she had done so for the previous two singles. Side note - Martha seriously needs some sort of award for all these hits! They were savvy enough to try something different and the song came across less hysterically than their out-put to this point. After their all-time classic debut this is their second best seller. They wouldn't trouble the Top 10 after this final hit. The Top 20 would meet them twice more with The Total Mix - a megamix of their first three italo-house numbers, and Strike It Up which was a return to their uptemo sound. They were one of the few Euro-dance bands to make any headway in the USA - Martha's voice working its magic. d3fYa_UuVSs Edited July 3, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe
July 2, 201510 yr Author That would be telling. There will be a re-cap of each year when each one finishes. Dirty Cash will feature.
July 2, 201510 yr Fantasy is surprisingly very pop - very akin to Lambada or La Isla Bonita. The other Black Box singles from that album were better. Edited July 2, 201510 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
July 3, 201510 yr No, I didn't notice but I was thinking of doing the same :D Oops, sorry...feel free to add commentary to the thread!
July 3, 201510 yr I really loved the Black Box version of 'Fantasy'. It seemed a strange release at the time and I didn't know it was a cover.
July 3, 201510 yr Yeah - that is the big one that was left too late. I suppose you are correct about 1994. Maybe More and More didn't get the exposure or perhaps people just didn't like it. More and More got held back way too long over here, it would have been huge had it came out late 1992/early 1993 (like it did around Europe) but didn't get released in the UK until the following November by which time it already sounded a bit old in terms of what was being released by then. #23 isn't too bad though. Eurodance was definitely a major chart force well into the mid-90s.
July 3, 201510 yr Author Snap! - Mary had a Little Boy http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/015%20Mary%20had%20a%20Little%20Boy.jpg Date 9th Dec 1990 5 Weeks Official Chart Run 24-12-8-8-9-9-17-30-43-71(8 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. And back again. The fourth single from their album World Power and their third number 1 in this rundown, Mary had a Little Boy was somewhat of a Christmas single in title only. Subject matter: romantic pursuit, not miracle birth in a shed. December wasn't exactly a fruitful time for dance music sales and so we have to dip our toe outside the top 10 again to find our best seller, for a week at last. Minimum sampling this time, merely the well used Hotpants drums. Formula of female singer/male rapper still very much to the fore but the formula, or at least the production needed changing if they were to make a longer term prospect of this and do what their peers - Black Box and Technotronic - could not. Much more of that later. And as we finish of 1990 with the three biggest dance bands of the era we look forward to seeing what 1991 would say about that. Quite a lot, actually. cDQ1wZYTg9s
July 3, 201510 yr Author 1990 at a glance...... 06-01-1990 Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K - Got To Get (1 Week) 13-01-1990 49ers - Touch Me (3 Weeks) 03-02-1990 Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K - Get Up (Before the Night is Over) (3 Weeks) 24-02-1990 Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me (5 Weeks) 31-03-1990 Snap! - The Power (5 weeks) 05-05-1990 Adamski - Killer (6 Weeks) 16-06-1990 Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked) (1 Week) 23-06-1990 Snap! - Ooops Up (3 Weeks) 14-07-1990 FAB ft. MC Parker - Thunderbirds Are Go (3 Weeks) 04-08-1990 DNA ft. Suzanne Vega - Tom’s Diner (5 Weeks) 02-09-1990 Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart/What is Love? (4 Weeks) 30-09-1990 Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood Project - I Can't Stand It (1 Week) 07-10-1990 Technotronic - Megamix (4 Weeks) 04-11-1990 Black Box - Fantasy (5 Weeks) 09-12-1990 Snap! - Mary had a Little Boy (5 Weeks) Top 10 Sellers 01 Adamski - Killer (1) 02 Beats International - Dub Be Good to Me (1) 03 Snap! - The Power (1) 04 Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K - Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over) (1) 05 The Adventures of Stevie - Dirty Cash (Money Talks) (2 - held back by Adamski) 06 Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart/What Is Love? (1) 07 Blue Pearl - Naked in the Rain (2 - held back by DNA featuring Suzanne Vega) 08 DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (1) 09 Snap! - Ooops Up (1) 10 Chad Jackson - Hear the Drummer (Get Wicked) (1)
July 4, 201510 yr Author Starting 1991 soon. The year that rave hit the charts. Dance gets a little harder.
July 5, 201510 yr Dub Be Good To Me, Tom's Diner & Groove Is In The Heart <3 real pity the latter two never got to #1 however. Strange seeing acts like Technotronic and Black Box score so many follow-up hits (for lack of better wording, as in post-Ride On Time or Pump Up The Jam) :P
July 5, 201510 yr Author Dub Be Good To Me, Tom's Diner & Groove Is In The Heart <3 real pity the latter two never got to #1 however. Strange seeing acts like Technotronic and Black Box score so many follow-up hits (for lack of better wording, as in post-Ride On Time or Pump Up The Jam) :P How do you mean strange?
July 5, 201510 yr C+C Music Factory ft. Freedom Williams - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/L0izjfRmCo_zpsec83oz9f.jpg Date 19th January 1991 1 Week Official Chart Run 40-31-29-25-10-3-5-10-14-19-29-49 (12 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Image became increasingly important in the preceding decade with the advent of music television in 1981, and so it was a surprise that the first major controversy took until late 1990 to unravel. That was of course the Milli Vanilli debacle in late 1990 which blew-up after an MTV performance, where whilst miming to “Girl You Know It's True” the backing track preceded to skip several times - cue outrage and Milli Vanilli being stripped of their Grammy. The flurry of lawsuits that followed included that of Martha Wash who sings on “Gonna Make You Sweat” but was not credited and was even replaced in the video by the more photogenic 19-year-old singer/model Zelma Davis (a then member of the band), who lip-synched her iconic lead vocals. Martha Wash was already an established singer with a eclectic and successful past which included vocal contributions for Sylvester (1978’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, the 1980’s disco-duo Two Tons O' Fun and 1983 1-hit-wonder’s The Weather Girls. David Cole and Robert Clivillés were the American production duo known popularly in the early 1990s as the C+C Music Factory, and managed two very big hits in 1991. Following quickly from the European house trend, the American movement was also exploding at the time and “Gonna Make You Sweat…” was the first commercial push from the scene in the US. “Sweat…” incorporated dance, house, and hip-hop beats and utilised the rapping talent of 24-year-old Freedom Williams from Brookyln, New York to punctuate Wash’s insanely catchy vocal hook. It was a massive hit, went to #1 in America and jumped to 3 in the UK following the post-Christmas lull. After suing the duo for $500,000 in 1990, Wash made her peace with C+C Music Factory and went on to record with them for 1994’s “Do You Wanna Get Funky” and eventually went on to have a huge club hit in 1996’s “Keep On Jumpin’” with Jocelyn Brown and Todd Terry which reached #8 on the UK singles chart. We’ll be hearing more from C+C Music Factory later… LaTGrV58wec
July 5, 201510 yr Author I didn't really like it at the time but I grew to like it years later. I always thought it would really work mashed up with Sexyback. The riffs are similar.
July 5, 201510 yr I used to love Clivilles and Cole, both with and without their music factory. 'A Deeper Love', 'Just a Touch Of Love' (as used in Sister Act :wub: ), 'Because Of Love' and 'Gonna Make You Sweat' were probably their highlights.
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