July 9, 20159 yr All of them are different [The Source original] [Now Voyager edit] [New Voyager edit] I was meaning the song rather than the mix.
July 9, 20159 yr You Got The love one of the few singles to make the top 10 on three separate occasions in the same version. Off hand I can only think of You Sexy Thing to have also have done it too. I think You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' by the Righteous Brothers also did it. Robin S came close with different versions of Show Me Love peaking at 6, 9 and 11. Can't think of any others though.
July 10, 20159 yr Care to guess how many weeks Insanity spends at number 1? :D Just cheated and looked - eek! Not particularly keen on what knocked it off either!
July 10, 20159 yr Quartz introducing Dina Carroll - It’s Too Late http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/cq2klaKUYw_zpsekmr4u3w.jpg Date 23rd March 1991 3 Weeks Official Chart Run 73-57-44-42-40-21-9-8-8-8-16-17-38-55 (14 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Quartz (who took their name from the Technics Quartz turntable) were a production duo consisting of Ronnie Herel and Dave Rawlings. The group had some minor chart success at end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s, but in '91 effectively launched the solo career of Dina Carroll with this downtempo dance cover of Carole King's 1971 hit “It’s Too Late”. I say launched because the artwork credited the track as 'introducing.. Dina Carroll' and Dina, a talented soul singer born in Suffolk but with African-American roots, had been signed up to a number of dance record labels and was certainly no stranger to the scene providing vocals for hip-hop tracks like Masquerade's 1985 hit “One Nation” to downtempo house on 1989 single “Walk On By” which peaked at a lowly #95. After a slow start the track, which uses a memorable bell chime sample that was created by Mark Summers (of “Melt Your Body” fame), leapt to 21 on the singles chart. An appearance by the 23 year-old Dina on Top of the Pops that week then propelled the single into the Top 10 where it remained for a month despite not peaking any higher than 8. Dina's vocals are the real winner here and lift what could have been a pretty standard dance cover to something a lot more memorable. The group invited Dina back on next single “Naked Love (Just Say You Want Me)” however than went no further than #39 in July. Dina Carroll went on to have a successful solo career with 3 Top 10 hits including the inescapable “Don't Be A Stranger”, Quartz disbanded in '92 and Herel was up until a few years ago working as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 Xtra. EbgSFN5MWM0 Edited July 10, 20159 yr by Doctor Blind
July 10, 20159 yr Author Love that cover. When I heard it first I didn't know it was a cover. It made number 1 in my personal chart for 2 weeks. I found Dina to be a bit hit and miss. I liked her voice but her material wasn't that amazing. I did love Don't Be a Stranger but I killed it off from overplaying. A great run of number 1s in 1991 - the best set of 5 so far.
July 12, 20159 yr Author N-Joi - Anthem http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/021%20Anthem.jpg Date 7th Apr 1991 2 Weeks Official Chart Run 19-8-9-12-17-31-43-66 (8 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. N-Joi were from the somewhat fertile dance hotbed of Essex. The were basically Nigel Champion and Mark Franklin who started making music in early 1990. One of their early creations was Anthem which consists of a hypnotic electronic arpeggio, some well matched samples and a huge piano chord presence. To front this creation and to provide live vocals when they performed the song they hired one Samantha Marie Sprackling who some of you will know better as Saffron from Republica. The vocals she provided were thankfully a lot more soulful in Anthem than Republica's more petulant sounding material. Anthem has since become an acknowledged classic house track. But like some classics it had to re-released before it became a hit. First released in 1990 it made number 45 in the UK but after the follow up EP Adrenalin hit number 23 in March 1991 it was time to re-promote Anthem again. Second time around the market was ready for it's charms and the record wasted little time vaulting into the Top 10 where it spent 2 weeks as the best selling dance single. It has to be said that Anthem is N-Joi's most human and accessible track. Much of their other work - including the Adrenalin EP and follow up to Anthem - Live in Manchester Parts 1 and 2 was more aggressively pioneering. This live set would bring them to the Top 20 in 1992 when The Prodigy and Altern-8 had made this sound more chartable. They had some minor hits after this and continued to reach the US Dance chart Top 10 as late as 1996. yxrgn7Ql19o Edited July 12, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe
July 12, 20159 yr I think Saffron was used to lip-synch in the video but the vocals are all sampled as follows: I'm In Love With You, Want You To Love Me Too is taken from Gwen Guthrie's “Peanut Butter” Feel The Melody That's In The Air, Oh Yeah from Soul II Soul's excellent “Back To Life (Acapella)” and True Love Can Be Hard To Find from Darlene Davis “I Found Love”.
July 12, 20159 yr Author I think Saffron was used to lip-synch in the video but the vocals are all sampled as follows: I'm In Love With You, Want You To Love Me Too is taken from Gwen Guthrie's Peanut Butter” Feel The Melody That's In The Air, Oh Yeah from Soul II Soul's excellent “Back To Life (Acapella)” and True Love Can Be Hard To Find from Darlene Davis “I Found Love”. Does that cover all the vocals? I listened to those three on Whosampled.com, briefly and figured she must have done some vocals too. Plus she's credited on the Anthem page and her own page on Wikipedia for vocal contributions. Edited July 12, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe
July 12, 20159 yr Yes, she sang it live - but all the vocals on the single are sampled- hence the lack of credit.
July 12, 20159 yr Author Cool B-) I made a slight edit to the entry to reflect this - in case anyone is wondering why the discussion doesn't match the text above. Edited July 12, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe
July 12, 20159 yr I'm not a massive fan of “Anthem” (or piano house in general, except for Bizarre Inc.) - but I think that's just my bias about boastful titles speaking mainly. :P Saffron also appears in the video for Chesney Hawkes' “The One And Only” which spent 5 weeks at No. 1 whilst this was charting.
July 13, 20159 yr Oh well, I'll show my support for Anthem - I still think it's brilliant. Also a huge fan of Adrenalin and Live in Manchester which are indeed very different. Saffron was becoming pretty well known around this time, she was simultaneously appearing as Cheesy Hawkes' love interest in the video for "The One and Only" where she got pulled A-Ha style into the cinema screen while watching Buddy's Song (which is actually a pretty decent flick). It's pretty obvious she didn't sing the sampled vocals on Anthem though. Was never bothered about Quartz, but I'd wouldn't have fast-forwarded it on a Deep Heat or "Hardcore" compilation though.
July 14, 20159 yr Author Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/022%20Human%20Nature.jpg Date 21st Apr 1991 1 Week Official Chart Run 25-14-12-11-10-15-21-38-54 *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Gary Clail had been opening for several of the various dub and reggae bands on the On U Sound record label during the mid-80s in Bristol before he branched out and started making his own music. Having made a lot of contacts while supporting these touring bands he would work with one of them in particular, Tackhead, which consisted of four musicians Doug Wimbish, Keith Leblanc , Skip McDonald and Adrian Sherwood (who owned On U Sound and was a creative linchpin in many of it's signings) eventually forming Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System. Apparently, unwieldy names didn't seem to be a deterrent to these people. :D Together they released a split album Tackhead Tape Time in 1987 to critical if not commercial success. Taking steps away from the industrial hop-hop sound of Tackhead (thought they would be involved in its recording) Gary released his first solo LP End Of The Century Party influenced by the fertile Bristol electronic music scene which surrounded him. Much of all this was far from commercial but that changed somewhat in 1991 with The Emotional Hooligan album, which had a cleaner more accomplished sound and featured slightly more dance oriented material. Human Nature was the lead single and the most dance sounding of all the tracks on the album which managed to bring the sound that The Shamen were emerging with to the Top 10 two months before they did. As with most of his work it was a political song about man's deeds against his fellow man and inequality. A few other singles would be taken off the album but none of them would trouble the Top 40. A few other minor hits emerged in 1992 but nothing as accessible as the judgemental Human Nature which snatched a week as the best selling dance single in late April 1991. V2Qg73_lK1A
July 14, 20159 yr Underrated as hell!! Always loved that bizarre "WHY DO PEOPLE GET OFF ON BIGOTRY, INTOLERANCE AND RACIAL INTOLERANCE" line. The usually reliable Everyhit.com has always made a mistake with this track by listing it as a 1994 release, which I believed for years despite how clearly earlier the track sounded.
July 14, 20159 yr Author Never knew this track but it's amazing. :o This is why we do these countdowns - so that people can find tracks that they haven't heard before that they like. :D
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