Dreamer is a fantastic dance track, I still really love it to this day. *.*

'Dreamer' is a banging tune, only discovered its existence a few years ago but it's amazing :music:

I prefer Don't Stop Moving.

Don't Stop Movin' is really good too, not familiar with their other songs though but I imagine they're not as good considering the diminishing returns they had with chart positions.

Dreamer is still heavenly, as is Don't Stop Moving. Totally glad it was a smash!

Good time to post this happy hardcore gem from Germany, a huge hit over Europe during early 1995 and one of the few happy hardcore top 40 hits to reach the UK, peaking at #24 here.

 

 

Long time guilty pleasure with me - mainly as I love the Johnny Mathis song they sampled.

and I absolutely hated Dreamer back then and still do. I might have been sore that it knocked Some Might Say off the top as I was a big Oasis fan at the time, but even without that I couldn't listen to it.

 

I always thought the spate of straight to number ones was a mix of having two CD singles out at £1.99 in the first week compared to £3.99 for all other existing chart CDs. But it's probably a mixture of things.

and I absolutely hated Dreamer back then and still do. I might have been sore that it knocked Some Might Say off the top as I was a big Oasis fan at the time, but even without that I couldn't listen to it.

 

I always thought the spate of straight to number ones was a mix of having two CD singles out at £1.99 in the first week compared to £3.99 for all other existing chart CDs. But it's probably a mixture of things.

 

 

That was certainly a factor, and may have been implemented the same week as Dreamer was released as part of the campaign to get the highest week 1 chart placing possible but I don't know for sure

Yeah, not sure who first started the two CD single deal. A few indie bands before then had done gatefold CDs with one CD available one week and the second the next - Thousand Yard Stare, Inspiral Carpets and The Wonder Stuff spring to mind. But I can't remember anyone putting two out in the same week until Blur with Country House (or indeed three in one week in 1996 from Rocket From The Crypt's On a Rope)

 

Anyway, that's way off topic for dance. Let's hope the next entry in the countdown is a goodie :)

Edited November 27, 20159 yr by richie

Baby D - (Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving

 

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Date 28th May 1995

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 5-4-4-3-6-12-21-32-39-45-60-70

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

 

 

Baby D were formed by Production House Records, a record label set up in 1987 by former recording artist Phil Fearon.

 

Involved with the rave scene, Production House's in-house record producer, Floyd Dyce, wrote and performed under several different names, including The House Crew, DMS and Xstatic. They had the slow burning hit with Let Me Be Your Fantasy which Doctor Blind described earlier in this thread.

 

To follow up that eventual smash hit they took to covering a 1980 hit single by The Korgis. They amended the title slightly, as it was originally Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime, which became bracketed.

 

As befits a song produced three years after Let Me Be Your Fantasy, the change in production values is remarkable. The drum and bass textures are wonderful. The bass sound slick and the vocal samples thoroughly modern. Any expecting a rave re-tread was going to be disappointed. And while cover versions are hardly ever a fertile ground for dance music this cover at least held its own against the original.

 

Out-peaking the original this spends 4 weeks as the best selling dance song in the UK in the Summer of 1995.

 

This isn't the last we'll hear from Baby D.

 

Edited December 2, 20159 yr by Cauldron

There are still definite ties to the rave era on “I Need Your Loving”, not least because the structure of Baby D's cover is very similar to a D&B version that was produced by N.R.G. in 1992 and was popular in clubs through the following years. Indeed the N.R.G. version was planned to (eventually) be released in 1995 but Baby D got there first. It is reported they had enough sales to match a Top 5 debut.

 

There weren't many D&B hits in the top end of the chart sadly, indeed Goldie's excellent “Inner City Life” (sung by the late Diane Charlemagne) :( stalled at 39 on second time out in November 1995.

It is reported they had enough sales to match a Top 5 debut.

 

 

Trickle sales?

We'll hear from Baby D again? :o

 

Massively surprised by that, they were clearly more successful than I remember!

the k-klass rmx of 'two can play that game' and 'dreamer' are immense jams :dance: :wub: :dance:

 

liking the atmospheric vibez on 'i need your loving'~ :music:

Trickle sales?

 

Sorry, I meant pre-release sales. I think a few copies were sold, but the release was pulled after Baby D went Top 5.

Wasn't massively bothered by Baby D but there was a certain level of quality in their work which was a nice break from the mid-90s cheese.

Agreed. They were a welcome diversion.

The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom

 

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Date 25th June 1995

7 Weeks

Official Chart Run 15-5-2-1-1-1-1-2-2-10-18-23-38-55-73

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

 

While most people remember 1995 for Brit-pop battles, Set You Free, Robbie leaving Take That or Robson and bleedin' Jerome it was a different matter in dance music back then when the genre was going through a peculiar phase.

 

It mostly resembled an oddball, patchwork of non-scene hits, remixes and semi-novelty singles with no particular direction, however, in 1995 dance belonged to no one more than The Outhere Brothers even though it wasn't even their original genre. They'll forever be remembered for their two monster number 1s which resulted in them spending 13 weeks in the Top 2 in 1995, a feat only matched by Robson and Jerome.

 

Here we have their second smash Boom Boom Boom. Like Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) it wasn't the most family friendly of songs - pertaining mostly to advances made in the direction of a specific lady and what the boys would like to do to said lady. The lyrical variety was a lot more fulsome than Don't Stop Too giving a less repetitive mood, with more moments and sections to the song.

 

Drawing its influence mainly from Reel 2 Real's signature sound, Boom Boom Boom slowed the pace slightly from their previous hit. Available in numerous mixes and edits, the Don't Break My Balls mix being the most one that will be most recognisable to UK listeners as it was the one that radio played at the time and the one that ended up on most compilations.

 

Despite having such a successful start to their career they only managed three further top 40 hits - two of their own and one contribution to If You Wanna Party by Molella, although pointing out which part Molella was responsible for is quite tricky as it sounds almost completely like a track from the Brothers.

 

We last saw them in January 1997 hitting number 18 with Let Me Hear You Say 'Ole 'Ole.

 

Incidentally, this title is part of a set of titles that are completely constructed by the same word repeated various times.

 

x 1 Boom (Snoop Dogg Featuring T-Pain)

x 2 Boom Boom (Black Slate, John Lee Hooker, Definition Of Sound, N-Tyce)

x 3 Boom Boom Boom (The Outhere Brothers)

x 4 Boom Boom Boom Boom (The Vengaboys)

 

 

Edited December 3, 20159 yr by Cauldron

Fun fact: The next single to debut outside the Top 10 and climb to #1 was ten years later in 2005 when James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” charted: 12-6-2-3-3-3-1

Fun fact: The next single to debut outside the Top 10 and climb to #1 was ten years later in 2005 when James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” charted: 12-6-2-3-3-3-1

 

 

Wow. That is interesting.