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    I remember thinking the same about Mambo No.5. The week it was #40 on imports was the first time I'd ever heard it, and I recall thinking it sounded like a much bigger hit and was amazed that it had done no better than #40 (I had no idea it was charting on import so had of course just assumed that like everything else, it would disappear from its entry point after one week).

     

     

    I think I was listening to that chart too. I was convinced it only had one days sales at that point as I had expected it to be huge.

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    DJ Jean - The Launch

     

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    Date 5th Sept 1999

    1 Week

    Official Chart Run 2-3-6-8-12-19-24-34-45-59-72 (11 weeks)

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

     

    More dance music from the Netherlands. DJ Jean started out in 1988 as a hip-hop DJ. He entered and won the national mixing championships in 1989. By 1991 he had starting playing house tunes in the clubs and in the mid-90s he started releasing mix albums - several per year - total domestic sales of which topped 1 million. He became a superstar DJ at home willing multiple awards and accolades.

     

    His first releases were on the iT Records imprint, Let Yourself Go in 1997 and U Got My Love in 1998 in the Netherlands. These were modest hits in his home country but that would all changed when he smashed with The Launch, which was co-produced by Klubbheads who we saw in 1996 in this very rundown. The track was popular around the continent and as with other hits in 1999 began to chart on imports alone, for multiple weeks. Again, this was an indication of massive demand and The Launch opened with 113,000 sales in week 1.

     

    The main riff in the track was taken from the bassline in The Horn Song, a dance track by The Don.

     

    In the UK The Launch would remain a one hit wonder for Jean, as it did in many other countries. He could only sustain interest in The Netherlands and Belgium with future re;eases. He still releases single tracks and mix albums to this day in his home country.

     

     

    There was an act named Shaft who had a top 10 hit in 1991 with a rave mix of the Roobarb theme. When this came out I assumed they were one and the same as I didn't think it would be allowed for an act to use the same name so soon.

     

    It's not too irritating - and I do prefer it to the Deano version which I'm really not fond of.

     

     

    Wasn't that 1992?

    That was La Lupe’s 1963 track “Fever” - right at the end of the song. I always thought it sounded like Bart Simpson Ay caramba!

     

    I bought this at the time on CD Single (from Our Price!) and played it to my Grandad as he always loved Dean Martin, I vividly remember the simultaneous words 'that's nice' with the look of complete horror dawning on his face as he realised what had been done to such a beloved classic of his..

     

     

    :D

     

     

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    Shaft - (Mucho Mambo) Sway

     

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    Date 29nd August 1999

    1 Week

    Official Chart Run 2-3-6-9-12-17-23-28-37-48-62-69 (12 weeks)

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

     

    Another trend of 1999 was the infiltration of latin flavoured music to the very highest reaches of the charts. Ricky Martin, Jenifer Lopez and Geri Halliwell had all graced the Top 5 with their latino efforts in the Summer of '99. As dance music is usually always there to take advantage of emerging pop music trends (as pop often does in return, it should be noted), in stepped Shaft.

     

    Sway was originally written 46 years earlier by Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltrán Ruizm, two Mexican composers in 1953. At that point it was a mambo instrumental. In 1954 it was given a high profile release when Dean Martin sang a vocal version with English lyrics provided by song-writer Norman Gimbel, who went on to write Killing Me Softly. Much like Mas Que Nada, Sway has become a staple of latin and big band singers over the decades and has been covered hundreds of times. Wikipedia lists over 40 - some instrumental and many not sung in English.

     

    Shaft were Alex Rizzo and Elliot Ireland, two British electronic musicians. Rizzo and Ireland operated under various guises. Before Shaft they were Da Muttz and they were also known as Skeewiff. They started out working at the Power Studios in Acton and undertook remixes for Björk and produced tracks for Alison Limerick and Schooly D.

     

    Having built up their own home recording studio, the duo compiled a database of samples and sound clips. Their first product was a white label called Machine Gun in 1998. For their re-interpretation of Sway they originally sampled the Perez Prado version of the song which featured a vocal sample of Rosemary Clooney but Rizzo and Ireland were unable to clear the sample, so the vocal on the final track was sung by Claire Vaughan from Huddersfield. The song also contains a sample from La Lupe's 1963 cover of Fever.

     

    Perhaps sensing the potential commercial clout that the word "Mambo" would have in '99 they re-christened the track Much Mambo (Sway) and released it on promo 12" on the back of Yomanda's Synth and Strings.

     

    The track drew heavy club play in 1999 and so a full release was given on Wonderboy Records in late Summer and took the number 1 dance single title for one week. It was beaten in the Official chart by Mambo Number 5 by Lou Bega and sitting at number 3 was Geri Halliwell's Mi Chico Latino marking the first time that the Top 3 were all latin music based songs.

     

    They followed this into the Top 20 with the slightly harder Mambo Italiano in 2000 but they never again graced the Top 40.

     

    An album of fun covers of latin music called Pick Up On This arrived in 2001 but failed to chart.

     

    I only wish they had put the UK edit on the CD single (it was on the Cassette but only available on Now 43 on CD) as it would have likely been a number 1. However, at least here justice is served!

     

     

    What was the version that was on the CD single?

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    DJ Jurgen presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone

     

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    Date 25th July 1999

    5 Weeks

    Official Chart Run 4-3-2-2-2-5-8-12-15-17-23-29-37-42-58-72 (16 weeks)

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

     

    DJ Jurgen (Jurgen Rijkers) was born in 1967. He started his DJ career in 1987 as a radio-DJ with Radio Stad den Haag. He continued working at radio stations until the 90s when he started playing night clubs and creating his own dance music. In '94/'95 Jurgen built his own studio and produced his first music, releasing two 12" - Chakra Feeling and the double A-side Chakra's Discovery/Chakra's Eternity on the Dutch house label Colours.

     

    In 1998 he started a new project which consisted of a huge collective of various alternating producers and musicians - the production teams Pronti (aka Sebastiaan Molijn) & Kalmani (Eelke Kalberg), M. van der Kuy & DJ Isaac, Hazerdous, Svenson & J. Gielen and Danski & DJ Delmundo (of the Vengaboys) and the frontwoman, Judy Pronk were all involved.

    Their first fruits was Better Off Alone which was released on the continent in 1998 and became a huge hit in several territories. As was often the case in 1999 Positiva gained the rights for a UK release which hit big in the summer of trance.

     

    What was most un-1999 about its chart performance was its persistence.

     

    In week 1 it entered at number 4 on sales of 50,800 which was, in 1999 terms, undistinguished. But a rise of 1 place in its second week on the official chart doesn't really show what remarkable uptake in sales the song experienced. In week 2 it increased its sales by a whopping 64% to 86,300. In week three it managed a further increase when sales topped 93,000. In the end it outsold the three songs that held it at number 2 - Ronan Keating's When You Say Nothing At All, Westlife's If I Let You Go and Geri Halliwell's Mi Chico Latino

    In fact it went on to be the second best selling single of 1999 that didn't make it to official number 1 and the best ever selling single from the Positiva label.

     

    There would be several hits after that - most notably Back in My Life and Will I Ever? which both hit the top 10. DJ Jurgen's last release was the 2011 single Ovetime.

     

    In our world of "Justice for Dance Singles" the track takes its place at the top for 5 weeks.

     

    The strap line should read '63 ACTUAL dance anthems from the 90s' but I'll let you off because that must have taken a lot of effort to compile. Thanks Colm!

     

     

    It did take quite a while to get the essence of the list into 240 mins and because I'm obsessional about sequencing I re-arranged things many many times. I originally had Better Off Alone with the trance songs on disc 2 but it works so much better with the Vengaboys and Urban Cookie Collective.

     

    I love how Things that Make You Go Hmmmm....is enhanced by being set up by Groove is in the Heart.

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    At this juncture myself and Doctor Blond would like to announce more information on the official sound track to this thread - one of THE most successful and long running threads that the chart forum has ever seen.

     

    As we have already seen the cover art for Now That's What Buzzjack Calls 90s Dance has been revealed.

     

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    63 massive dance hits from the 1990s, over 3 standard length cds. Representing all major dance genres - eurodance, rave, trance, vocal house, french looped house, left-field dance, big beat, novelty dance, chill out. Immaculate sequencing.

     

    There will be ones and zeros will be available in your inbox if you should so desire. The full track list will be published at the end of the run down.

    That ATB record was a bit of a milestone for me as it was the first time in years that a song went in at number one that I was completely unaware of. I first heard it on the bus back from T in the Park to Glasgow on the Monday morning after it went to no.1 and it felt weird, like I'd lost a few weeks of time and had never heard the number one.

     

     

    I also heard it for the first time on a bus but it was far from the first time that I was unaware of a song before it entered at number 1.

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    ATB - 9 PM (Til I Come)

     

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    Date 27th June 1999

    4 Weeks

    Official Chart Run 1-1-2-3-5-6-12-14-21-31-38-42-51-59-75 (15 weeks)

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

     

    Andre Tanneberge was born in 1973 in Germany. His first musical project was Sequential One which he formed with some friends and in February 1993 they released their debut single Let Me Hear You and later the double A-side Dance/Raving. With the meager profits made from these singles Tanneberg set up a make-shift studio. In 1994 the project expanded with the addition of Ulrich Poppelbaum, Woody van Eyden and vocalist Morpha and released the album Dance in 1995.

     

    Despite their success in Germany and a few other European countries the group started to disintegrate after a second album was released. By the time 1999 came the name stopped being used altogether under which new music would be released and they finished with a compilation Decades.

     

    By this time Andre had started to mess around on his own and hit upon a striking sound while demonstrating some equipment where he processed a guitar sample through a pitch modulator which produced the now characteristic early ATB bent guitar notes. He persisted with what he thought was a novel sound and underpinned it with standard 4/4 commercial trance percussion, added off-beat synths and sympathetic bass. The vocal samples of “Till I Come” and “Change It and See” both come from the same dance track The Way You Make Me Feel from Rickie Rich and Julio Posadas feat. Yolanda Rivera. Incidentally, Andre also took from that track for the follow up Don’t Stop.

     

    It came backed with 7 mixes over various formats and by the end of 1999 had featured on more than 40 compilations released in the UK as commercial trance and mix albums had become big money spinners.

     

    Perhaps surprisingly it only hit number 1 in two countries – the UK and Ireland. Even before release the track had been in the UK Top 75 for a combined total of 7 weeks due to sufficient sales of Australian and German imports. Demand for the product was so high that on full release the track achieved the biggest ever opening week sales for a dance track - over 270,000 copies were put through the tills. Considering that it only contains 2 spoken word samples comprising just 9 words in total that is quite an achievement.

     

    While being far from the most complex or sophisticated trance song available, 9 PM (Till I Come) became the biggest seller from the genre which up until this point had been Robert Miles' similarly motifed Children. The track was released on Ministry of Sound’s label and became their first UK number 1 single. In true dance tradition ATB followed this up with the similar sounding Don’t Stop which hit the Top 3 later in 1999 and then a pretty faithful cover of Adamski's Killer made number 4 in 2000.

     

    Andre was last seen in the singles charts in 2001 when Let You Go made number 34. He still releases music until this day.