if I remember well, I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love was not on any EBTG album, just in this Home Movies Best Of they did in the early 90s

Next entry wont be with us until tomorrow evening

 

Any speculation on what tracks will feature for the rest of 1998.

 

There's around 10 more. There are a few obvious ones but a few less obvious ones.

There's a few that I'd adore to see here but I don't think they charted high enough.

 

Initials CDM, ICHM, KOD and EN. I have high hopes for MSBWY though!

There's a few that I'd adore to see here but I don't think they charted high enough.

 

Initials CDM, ICHM, KOD and EN. I have high hopes for MSBWY though!

 

 

ICHM :wub: :wub:

Echobeatz - Mas Que Nada

 

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Date 19th July 1998

1 Week

Official Chart Run 10-19-31-39-59 (5 weeks)

*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

Originally a song written and performed by Jorge Ben in 1963 which became the signature song of Sérgio Mendes when he covered it in 1966. The song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 5th greatest Brazilian song of all time and has been inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame for songs in Spanish or Portuguese that have qualitative or historical significance. The song is recognisably iconic in the canon of popular samba music and has been covered numerous times.

Wikipedia list 28 official covers.

Despite all these covers the Mendes is still recognised as the definitive version.

 

Nike took a cover by Tamba Trio for their 1998 World Cup ad. This had a full release and that version of the song hit number 34 a week before the Echobeatz release.

 

Echobeatz were David de Braie & Paul Moody. They mainly operated in latin/house remixes and also in dance mixes of world music. They upped the tempo of the song and capitalised on the recent popularity of the song on television. De Braie and Moody had no previous chart action, not did they have any since.

 

Mas Que Nada registers one week as the number 1 dance song in the UK in July 1998. Eight Years later Sérgio Mendes would team up with Black Eyed Peas for a new version which became the biggest hit version of the song in the UK making number 6.

 

This recreates some of the piano riff from classic house record The Believers’ “Who Dares To Believe In Me”.

 

That particular piano riff was sampled much more gratuitously on The Happy Clappers track “I Believe” which on re-release went Top 10 (#7) in 1995.

meh, i'll stick to the Sergio ft Black Eyed Peas version. Seems like it only charted because of the ad, loving how they're even telling you that in the cover art :lol:

Was this cover of Mas Que Nada (of circa 2003) released in the UK?

 

First song that I really can't recall at ALL.

 

Worth mentioning that just missing out (because it charted at 12 this week in 1998) was Energy 52’s “Cafe Del Mar”

 

Where as Energy 52 is a genuine classic. This was the peak period of clubbing for me, listening to Café Del Mar in the early hours of the morning whilst more than a little out of my face was the genuine state of Euphoria that all those compilations referred to.

Cafe Del Mar & Paul Van Dyk's For An Angel are some of the most well known club tracks to never make the top 10! Classics!

The week after Echobeatz charted, a similar-sounding (but different) song called Mas Que Mancada reached #37 for Ronaldo's Revenge (an alias of Full Intention).

First song that I really can't recall at ALL.

 

 

first for me also but I think that may be because the music has been around for decades and has been used in so many things that if you weren't following the charts you may not have even realised it was even being released as a single as it spent such a short amount about in the charts.

Apollo Four Forty - Lost in Space

 

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Date 2nd August 1998

1 Week

Official Chart Run 4-6-11-16-23-31-46-60-73 (9 weeks)

*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

 

Back as Apollo Four Forty - as opposed to Apollo 440 - with the pumped up, high octane, guitar soaked theme to the 1998 movie remake of Lost in Space. The original theme was composed by John Williams who most will know as the creator of scores for classic films Star Wars, Superman, ET, Indiana Jones plus many, many more.

 

Having gained mainstream exposure with their Van Halen-sampling Ain't Talkin' Bout Dub [see page 53 of this thread] and perhaps because of their space related name, the boys - Trevor and Howard Gray, Noko and James Gardner - were hired to provide a contemporary overhaul of the 1960s television show theme. The original theme is super-charged, sped up and injected with cartoonish heroicism to match the adrenaline rush of some of the movies set-piece shoot-em-up scenes.

 

This is in stark contrast to the other song in the Top 40 at the time with the title Lost in Space, by the Lighthouse Family, which is, as expected, a pastoral piece.

 

After this, they continued to work on film music as well as releasing non-film related material. Over 50 different Apollo tracks have featured in movies, trailers, television, games and ads. They have also written two entire soundtracks for Sony PlayStation.

 

That's the last we see of Apollo 440 here. They had one further Top 10 hit in 1999 with Don't Stop the Rock, which was used in several movies and had a few more hits up to 2003. Their last album - The Future's Is What it Used to Be came out in 2012.

Two weeks before The Lighthouse Family's Lost In Space charted, Electrasy charted (at #60) with another song called Lost In Space.

 

Apollo Four Forty had had a top 15 hit only 4 weeks earlier, with a re-working of Jean Michel Jarre's Rendez-Vous (titled Rendez-Vous 98).

Indeed. There have only been 3 hit singles called Lost in Space in the UK Top 75 and they all happened within an 9 week period in the Summer of 1998.

Sash! feat. Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times

 

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Date 9th August 1998

1 Week

Official Chart Run 2-5-6-11-16-20-22-32-43-55-67-59 (12 weeks)

*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

 

And back at number 1 in our rundown for the 4th time out of 5 releases is Sash!. La Primavera was kept at number 2 in our chart by Run DMC v Jason Nevins back in April but nothing stood in the way of Mysterious Times becoming the best selling dance song for a week in August 1998.

 

Taking on vocals for Sash! this time was British singer, Tina Cousins. Cousins had released a few singles in 1997. Killin' Time, which managed to make number 80 and Angel which did not chart in the Top 100 . Her big break came when she joined forces with Sash! for Mysterious Times - a reserved and reflective track more in line with the sound of their third single Stay than any of their other previous hits.

 

Along with La Primavera, it was taken from the group's second album Life Goes On which was release a few weeks later. Once again, the Brits took to Sash! more than any other country where Mysterious Times charted higher than anywhere else.

 

It launched a successful career for Tina, after which she would amass 7 hits but only hit the Top 10 twice more - and neither time on her own. She joined Steps, Cleopatra, B*Witched And Billie for their ABBA tribute Thank You for The Music in 1999 and last featured in the UK Top 10 with Sash! on Just Around the Hill in 2000.

 

She's had slightly more enduring success in Finland and Sweden where her cover of Kings of Leon's Sex on Fire was minor hit in 2010.

 

Sash! followed this with the more energetic Move Mania but alas this is also the last we'll see of them in our rundown as the number 2 hits eluded them until Adelante in 2000. They continued to release singles until 2014 but haven't had a hit anywhere since they revamped Encore Une Fois as Raindrops (Encore Une Fois) in 2008.

 

Sash! actually had a minor hit this year in France with their (not very good) remake of 'Ecuador' which peaked at #30

 

Mysteriou Times is incredible! Their best single :wub: