November 1, 20159 yr Annerley Gordon aka Ann Lee, although I guess that may be a story for another year...
November 1, 20159 yr Classic! I think the Rapino Brothers Radio Version (which is the one you posted) was the one I heard most at the time. Subsequently ruined by Bastille in 2013, after which Rob Swire (of Pendulum) tweeted: Bastille, you are not good enough to cover "Rhythm of the Night". Please stick to 90's songs within your talent range, like Mambo No. 5 MEIOW! :D
November 1, 20159 yr Author Classic! I think the Rapino Brothers Radio Version (which is the one you posted) was the one I heard most at the time. Subsequently ruined by Bastille in 2013, after which Rob Swire (of Pendulum) tweeted: MEIOW! :D Love that quote! The Rapino version is the one I knew and ended up on Now 29. It took a while to find it on youtube as I didn't know the exact name of the mix. I dont relish doing the next write up at all.
November 1, 20159 yr Author Annerley Gordon aka Ann Lee, although I guess that may be a story for another year... I would have mentioned it if I'd known. :D
November 1, 20159 yr a hit by German band Say When! called Save Me, which was a hit Germany in 1987. Say When were actually Dutch, one of the members being mother to Eva Simons. Giovanna "Jenny" Bersola has quite an history for providing vocals for acts fronted and lipsynched by other women: she also sang Playahitty's The Summer Is Magic fronted by Marion Playahitty and J.K.'s "You & I" fronted by Marta Simlat. And just like in Corona's Try Me Out and Baby Baby, some of other songs by Playahitty and J.K. were sung by Sandra Chambers. While the most famous edit of Rhythm Of The Night is the one that samples "Playing With Knives", I also had a compilation album that had the Lee Marrow remix and therefore both versions are equally iconic for me. ZJya94Hif4c Edited November 1, 20159 yr by N-S
November 1, 20159 yr The week it entered at #9 Rhythm Of The Night was apparently accidentally played at #40 on the Chart Show (as I believe the DJ couldn't find the actual #40 (Midnight At The Oasis by Brand New Heavies).
November 2, 20159 yr The version that was a hit in Australia was this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ltZmI5LQw Baby, Baby and Try Me Out are better for me personally. Having said that, this still kicks ass too :music:
November 2, 20159 yr I loved the Lee Marrow Space Remix which featured Rap vocals by Ice MC: idu54wS4Hcs
November 2, 20159 yr the video edit of 'Doop' is much better than the version linked here (had no idea there was a different mix for the UK release, this is the version I'm used to): tvLDm8821jQ This is the version I first heard and thought was pretty fun (I liked the two dancing blokes in the video especially) - I really didn't like the second part in the "Urge 2 Merge" mix which we got in the UK. Anyway, very ashamed now to have this on 7"..... But it's better than most of 1994 :P
November 2, 20159 yr Author It's been a pretty weak set for 1994 - The Prodigy, The Grid and Corona are the pick of them. Never liked Things Can Only Get Better and detested Doop.
November 2, 20159 yr The week it entered at #9 Rhythm Of The Night was apparently accidentally played at #40 on the Chart Show (as I believe the DJ couldn't find the actual #40 (Midnight At The Oasis by Brand New Heavies). I don't know what Bruno was on that day. He didn't even correct himself - he just faded the song out.
November 2, 20159 yr I don't know what Bruno was on that day. He didn't even correct himself - he just faded the song out. Did he not even play the proper #40? How bizarre. Quite an iconic chart too with Kylie Minogue making her indie comeback at #2 and Wet Wet Wet scoring a 15th (and as it turned out final) week at #1.
November 2, 20159 yr Did he not even play the proper #40? How bizarre. Quite an iconic chart too with Kylie Minogue making her indie comeback at #2 and Wet Wet Wet scoring a 15th (and as it turned out final) week at #1. He played the real #40 as well but made no reference to the fact he'd made a mistake.
November 2, 20159 yr I wish it were clearer sometimes to work out which mixes were the actual hit singles, it can massively vary even with huge million-sellers - particularly in the UK, which would often get a track a year after the European mainland often in a remixed form. The oddest is Ian Van Dahl's Castles in the Sky, which I assumed charted in the same mix everywhere but if you listen on youtube you'll really struggle to find the familiar one that charted here and features on Now 49. I think I finally found it on the tenth page or something.
November 3, 20159 yr That was the norm in the 90s though - somehow the labels often thought the UK was more sophisticated or wouldn't like certain mixes. We've had examples of that already in this thread with the Bruce Forrest mix of 24-7's 'I Can't Stand It', the non-rap version of 'Get Ready for This' and that flaccid mix of 'Doop'. One record coming later in 1994 (if it's considered dance, which I think it is) probably would have been released as a slightly harder mix had so many Brits not heard it in its original Europop form during the summer of that year and perfected the, er, dance.
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