This was his 3rd hit as Jakatta (after American Dream and So Lonely), and at least his 8th in total (he had also had 3 as Joey Negro and 2 as Raven Maize).

 

Sorry about the misinformation, I forgot about So Lonely.

 

Easily my favourite of the hits was Make A Move On Me, and at the time of this last hit for Joey Negro, there were a few other veteran dance acts making the charts in early 2006 with very retro sounding disco house tracks, sadly not all of them making this thread. Sadly early 2006 was the last hurrah for disco house, as early 2004 was the last hurrah for trance.

not as good as American Dream but still decent

Dont care much for My Vision. Loved Try, Days Go By and Forever though.

 

And yeah, as much as there are plenty of covers these days, I think there were a tonne more in the early 00s. Not just in the UK, the whole of Europe. Especially 2002-2004

 

Edited September 28, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Who Da Funk (feat. Jessica Eve) - Shiny Disco Balls

 

 

Date 27th Oct 2002

1 Week

Official Chart Run 69-15-23-33-49-66-x (6 weeks)

 

 

Who Da Funk is probably similar to the question most of you are asking about the guys behind this song. Well the group are Jorge Mario Jaramillo and Alexander Alicea featuring vocalist Jessica Eve. As the name of the group suggests it's a funky house track. There are very few lyrics in the song (all based on the two lines below repeated) and they are spoken (at first whispered and then more shouty with heavy distortion) rather than sung or rapped which makes for a change in this rundown.

 

"Drugs and rock 'n' roll, bad ass Vegas hoes,

Late-night booty calls and shiny disco balls"

 

The song would only spend 3 weeks in the top 40 making it one of the less-successful dance #1s in this thread. Who Da Funk would have one more top 40 hit with 'Sting Me Red' (#32, Feb 2003) featuring Terra Deva who sang on Shakedown's UK #6 and former dance #1 hit 'At Night'.

I find Shiny Disco Ball rather annoying.

Always hated this song.

 

Sting Me Red is much better

Yes Shiny Disco Balls is funky house (and house music in general) at its worst imo, and it was songs like these that meant trance was the top force in 2002.

 

Yes I know it was a novelty song but for a novelty song that was good production wise, Hound Dogs - I Like Girls was much better (although the lyrics are as mysogynist as that Dapper Laughs Proper Moist song).

Dont care much for My Vision. Loved Try, Days Go By and Forever though.

 

And yeah, as much as there are plenty of covers these days, I think there were a tonne more in the early 00s. Not just in the UK, the whole of Europe. Especially 2002-2004

 

Of course there were two eurodance covers in the 2000s of the same song, Because the Night by two different German acts, one by Jan Wayne in late 2002 and one by Cascada in 2008.

 

After

Call On Me

in 2004 there was more emphasis on using the original vocals for a remix rather than making a cover even if the song wasn't looped house, examples were the Dancing DJs remix of Fading Like A Flower. The original vocals sound much better imo on a dance remix rather than making a cover, especially of it is an old song, as the original vocal adds the retro value.

Jan Wayne also had a hit here with a cover of Total Eclipse Of The Heart (although really what was the point after Nicki French already smashed with a dance cover in 1995?). I did quite love his version of Because The Night though, much more than Cascada's cover.

Jan Wayne also had a hit here with a cover of Total Eclipse Of The Heart (although really what was the point after Nicki French already smashed with a dance cover in 1995?). I did quite love his version of Because The Night though, much more than Cascada's cover.

 

The Jan Wayne one was more trance influenced than the Cascada one, and the music is better but I prefer the vocal in the Cascada one.

 

I think the Scooter Logical Song and Kelly Llorenna Tell It To My Heart ones are the best dance covers of the 00s of a well known song along with the Freemasons Watchin' in 2006. All three songs have power in the production, provided by techno, trance synths and disco strings respectively.

Edited September 28, 20168 yr by TheSnake

The Jan Wayne one was more trance influenced than the Cascada one, and the music is better but I prefer the vocal in the Cascada one.

 

I think the Scooter Logical Song and Kelly Llorenna Tell It To My Heart ones are the best dance covers of the 00s of a well known song along with the Freemasons Watchin' in 2006. All three songs have power in the production, provided by techno, trance synths and disco strings respectively.

 

My favourite dance cover of the 00s will be up very soon! (I was already championing it around my school in summer 2002 though and assuring everyone it was a future smash :lol:)

My favourite dance cover of the 00s will be up very soon! (I was already championing it around my school in summer 2002 though and assuring everyone it was a future smash :lol:)

 

And what are you going to Do when it comes up? (am I on the right track)

DJ Sammy and Yanou (feat. Do) - Heaven

 

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LfoAAOSwQItUIWUe/s-l300.jpg

 

Date 3rd Nov 2002

7 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-2-3-7-11-12-20-26-20-24-31-38-36-47-46-54-59-54-56-x(244)-69-x(29)-65-71-63-67-x (24 weeks)

 

 

Spending 7 weeks at #1 in the dance chart, it is the longest runner we have visited in this thread to date. As we go towards the middle and end of the decade though there will be even longer runners, I won't reveal what they are now but you may be able to guess some of them.

 

'Heaven' was released as the lead single for DJ Sammy off his album 'Heaven' which spawned three top 10 hits, and is a cover of the Bryan Adams song of the same name (US #1 and UK #38, 1985). The original was a rock ballad but for the cover DJ Sammy gave it a eurodance mix with vocals re-recorded by Dutch singer Do (who went on to have a successful career in her own country but had no further hits elsewhere). Unlike many other dance hits at the time this was also a success in America with it reaching #8 in the Billboard Chart.

 

The song sold approximately 119,000 copies to debut at #1 (though an import did chart in the lower end of the top 100 for several weeks beforehand) and has since sold in excess of 600,000 copies. It became the 19th biggest selling song of the year and 77th biggest of the decade.

 

Sammy is Spanish DJ Samuel Bouriah who started DJing at pubs and radio stations from 1984 and released his first single in 1995 ("Life Is Just a Game" from his album of the same name, released in 1998). 'Heaven' however was his first major hit single and the album of the same name would be his second of three studio albums. His third album would be released in 2005 titled "The Rise" but by then he was declining in popularity.

 

Yanou would share the lead credit with Sammy on the song although it for all intents and purposes was a DJ Sammy single. Real name Yann Peifer, Yanou is a German trance music producer who started in 1997 in the group Beam & Yanou before he worked on 'Heaven'. It would be his only hit as a credited artist on the chart but he would come back multiple times as part of the group Cascada who he formed with DJ Manian and vocalist Natalie Horler in 2004.

 

Following the success of the song a 'candlelight mix' was created, turning the song into a beautiful piano ballad. An unofficial "9/11 mix" was also made and popularised by KISS FM in California which had a young girl speaking of her father who died in the terrorist attacks over the top of the candlelight mix (although it was based on real events, the vocals were actually from the daughter of a former KISS FM program director and she did not know anything about the attacks at the time).

 

On the week 'Heaven' entered at #1 it seemed a very popular week for covering 80s hits. Two others (as well as a 70s cover) made the chart this week.

 

Jan Wayne - Because The Night [#14]

 

German DJ with trance cover of Patti Smith. Cascada (which then-current #1 artist Yanou was a part of) would also cover this later on

 

Soda Club (feat. Hannah Alethea) - Take My Breath Away [#16]

 

Eurorance cover of 80s #1 from Berlin

 

Mad'house - Holiday [#24]

 

Follow-up to their #3 'Like A Prayer', also a Madonna cover AND uses the same Black Legend/House Of God sample that 'LAP' did. No wonder it missed the top 20 really.

Dance covers = awful

Other near-misses during DJ Sammy's time at #1:

 

Lasgo - Pray [#17]

 

Final top 20 hit for Lasgo. One more top 40 ('Surrender', #24) would follow.

 

Kelly Llorenna - Heart Of Gold [#19]

 

Second hit for Llorenna as a lead artist. One more would follow.

 

Scooter - Posse (I Need You On The Floor) [#15]

 

The hits just kept coming for Scooter. Three more top 20 hits would follow this.

 

Rainbow - It's A Rainbow [#15]

 

A bit of a WTF hit here. Would be their only one.

 

-x-

 

Also here's a shoutout to a dancey song that wasn't considered dance enough for the rundown, which entered towards the end of DJ Sammy's 7 weeks:

 

The Cheeky Girls - The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) [#2]

 

This was my jam back in the day.

Heaven is incredible, my favourite cover version ever by some stretch. I was instantly blown away first time I heard it and bought it on import in about June (?) for about £8. I was raving to everyone that would listen about both the radio version and Candlelight Mix for ages (it was #1 in my personal chart for 12 weeks in a row!)

 

One of my friends in school even sang her version of the Candlelight Mix in an end of year concert in July 2002 - three months before the song was released in the UK, hence my spamming of the track around the school *.*

 

The week it was released it was up against heavily hyped singles by Madonna (Die Another Day) and Craig David (What's Your Flava). Nevertheless I had an inkling it could beat these and go into #1 on quality alone and I was so happy that it happened, and the fact that the track opens up Now 52 was too brilliant for words because it never really felt THAT big despite its position in the top 100 of the decade (and with Las Ketchup and Enrique following it was a rather iconic Spanish opening trio to that album *.*)

Edited September 29, 20168 yr by gooddelta

Mad'House's Holiday sounds less a Black Legend rip-off and more Stardust's Music Sounds Better With You to me.

 

Pray was just as good as Something for me and better than Alone, I love it.

 

Heart of Gold was also brill and great to see Kelly scoring another hit, it was a cover of a happy hardcore song by Force & Styles released in 1998.

 

I mentioned the Rainbow track earlier...just hilarious, hearing it on the chart show was a real *.* moment, as I used to love Rainbow growing up and the theme tune as a tacky trance-lite track was too much. I even bought a compilation at the time with this track as the lead song called Rainbow Rave Up :lol: I still have it somewhere, it also features Rainbow dance covers of It's Raining Men and Dancing Queen - so we were spared a second single by the sounds of it!

 

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Rainbow-Rav...release/1927635

Edited September 29, 20168 yr by gooddelta

really a cover version overdose I really believe that's what killed dance music, we had so much amazing dance music in the late 90s and then all those covers ruined dance music :/

the cover of Heaven is an abomination, especially when the original only made it to #38 I believe :/

...so I'm the *only* one who thinks Shiny Disco Balls is absolutely ace?! Absolutely hooked me when I first heard it, yeah it's got a novelty vocal hook but that backing track is brilliant, properly hypnotic, starting quite minimal and building into a huge distorted frenzy throughout the song. One of my faves of the late '02 era and one of the few really big hits of the time that wasn't (increasingly underwhelming) trancepop. Worth noting that the video posted is what sounds like the 12" mix (6:45!!), the much shorter 3:12 radio edit can be found on Now 53.

 

Heaven I loved at the time, then went off it for a bit as it got overplayed, but today it's sounding great - I can see how serious dance fans would despise this, but at a friend's 21st birthday about two years ago this got a HUGE reaction on the dancefloor, it's a massive trancepop anthem that might be as commercial as ITV but has far more power than a lot of the others mentioned on this page. Agreed that the covers got a bit too much around this time, it's reminding me of when commercial 'rave' degenerated into comedy Tetris/Super Mario songs for kids around the end of 1992.

 

Huge shout out to the happy hardcore brilliance that is Nakatomi's Children of the Night - first charting at a lowly #149 back in 1996, finally reaching the top 40 a whopping six years later in October 2002 when it charted at #31!! One of the oddest re-entries I can think of, particularly in the pre-download era, but I remember someone mentioning here that it was a huge club favourite for years so a proper re-release was perhaps inevitable.

 

 

Speaking of songs that took years to 'hit', I think there's one more to come before 2002 is out - was worried The Cheeky Song would be included (as much as it conjures up good memories of being 14) but its omission paves the way for an anthem of the era!

Edited September 29, 20168 yr by BillyH