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Post by Pet Shop Boy on Nov 4, 2005 7:11:12 GMT -5
Oh yes! It doesn't get much better than this!
"You just WALK RIGHT IN
WALK RIGHT IN!"
Was this really not a hit in the USA? That surprises me, when the good but much weaker "Everybody Everybody" was a smash. Lolleata Holloways vocal on this is just an absolute killer. I'm surprised she doesn't pass out when she sings this!
#1 in the UK for 6 weeks.
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Post by BillboardBoy on Nov 4, 2005 9:38:29 GMT -5
I LOVE this song! When I got Black Box's "Dreamland" cassette back in 1991, I knew I'd heard this song before but I didn't know from where. Interestingly, when I got Black Box's "All Mixed Up" on CD about a year later, it was a different woman singing.
It peaked at #39 on the dance chart in 1989.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2005 15:22:32 GMT -5
Lolleata Holloways vocal on this is just an absolute killer. I'm surprised she doesn't pass out when she sings this! This coming from someone who goes on a crusade about oversinging when this is one of the most oversung songs ever. It's an excellent song but Black Box used bits and pieces of "Love Sensation" on a couple of their hits. Many other early 90's dance hits also incoroporated elements. |
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Post by Pet Shop Boy on Nov 4, 2005 15:31:05 GMT -5
This coming from someone who goes on a crusade about oversinging when this is one of the most oversung songs ever. This is a dance song though. The HILARIOUS oversinging totally suits it. Upbeat songs usually aren't so bad from a bit of belting, hence i love Mariah's "Fantasy" and "Heartbreaker". It's those awful, awful ballads she and Whitney in particular churned out in the 90's that bug me. Ballads are supposed to be emotional, dance songs aren't. So when the big lunged ones take the vocal sledgehammer approach to what is supposed to be a tender love song, it makes me want to puke. When It's on a dance song like this, it makes me want to boogy! |
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Post by billcs on Nov 4, 2005 19:38:20 GMT -5
It's a fabulous over-the-top dance track that made Loleatta an even bigger diva. I remember hearing the original version, which really was poor quality and sounded spliced together. Then they re-recorded it and that's the version you hear today. Still sounds great.
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on Nov 4, 2005 20:37:26 GMT -5
It's a fabulous over-the-top dance track that made Loleatta an even bigger diva. Most of Loleatta's disco tracks from the 70's still sound fresh today. "Dreamin' ", "Hit N' Run" and "Runaway' are great examples of that. |
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 19, 2006 1:34:41 GMT -5
FANTASTIC!
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Post by BillboardBoy on Apr 19, 2006 10:38:08 GMT -5
Love it. I'm listening to it right now.
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Post by Pet Shop Boy on Apr 19, 2006 10:41:42 GMT -5
 "WAAAAAAA! HO! WAAAAAAAA! HO! WA-WAAAAAAA! HO! WA WA WA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HO!" I can NEVER get bored of this!
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 19, 2006 20:29:49 GMT -5
Most of the tracks on "Dreamland" and pretty good, but this is my favorite.
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Post by Nick on Apr 20, 2006 19:58:26 GMT -5
Let it be known that the rest of the songs on this album were sung by the amazing Martha Wash.
I loved this one as well!
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Post by tico on Apr 20, 2006 20:20:01 GMT -5
Never heard of it.
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Post by Nick on May 29, 2006 13:45:08 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQRbwjfzpg&search=martha%20washI never saw this video, and I noticed right away that it was a different female vocal on this. The album version had Loleatta Holloway, and this version is sung by someone named Heather Small from M People. BTW, that same drag queen who lip synced to Martha Wash in their other videos, is lip syncing in this video as well. LOL.
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Post by Wardly on Jun 3, 2006 13:50:07 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQRbwjfzpg&search=martha%20washI never saw this video, and I noticed right away that it was a different female vocal on this. The album version had Loleatta Holloway, and this version is sung by someone named Heather Small from M People. BTW, that same drag queen who lip synced to Martha Wash in their other videos, is lip syncing in this video as well. LOL. "Someone"? Heather Small and M People were huge. She ain't just "someone". Katrin Quinol is NOT a drag queen. She is/was a very popular French model. In the UK, there was a problem with the sample. Originally, Black Box had used the Salsoul Records sample without permission. This is why deConstruction recruited one of their singers (Heather Small was part of the group Hot!House at the time,which was signed to the label) to resing the vocals. |
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on Jun 3, 2006 21:01:27 GMT -5
"Someone"? Heather Small and M People were huge. She ain't just "someone". Yes! M People were pretty successful in clubland (and outside of it with "Moving On Up." |
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 22, 2007 10:26:38 GMT -5
This is a really fun song.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 22, 2007 10:31:09 GMT -5
This coming from someone who goes on a crusade about oversinging when this is one of the most oversung songs ever. This is a dance song though. The HILARIOUS oversinging totally suits it. Upbeat songs usually aren't so bad from a bit of belting, hence i love Mariah's "Fantasy" and "Heartbreaker". It's those awful, awful ballads she and Whitney in particular churned out in the 90's that bug me. Ballads are supposed to be emotional, dance songs aren't. So when the big lunged ones take the vocal sledgehammer approach to what is supposed to be a tender love song, it makes me want to puke. When It's on a dance song like this, it makes me want to boogy! Ditto. |
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Post by grandelf on Aug 20, 2014 9:51:28 GMT -5
Just recently I've discovered Black Box and I'm fascinated that they already had that dance sound in 1989 that was run into the ground by every major act and one hit wonder during the 1990s...
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Post by Ling-Ling on Aug 20, 2014 12:04:03 GMT -5
My least favorite of their big singles. I much prefer the Martha Wash tracks.
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 3, 2014 22:29:12 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQRbwjfzpg&search=martha%20washI never saw this video, and I noticed right away that it was a different female vocal on this. The album version had Loleatta Holloway, and this version is sung by someone named Heather Small from M People. BTW, that same drag queen who lip synced to Martha Wash in their other videos, is lip syncing in this video as well. LOL. I learn something new every day. So the singer on this was also the same gal who sang "Movin' On up." |
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Post by Glove Slap on Nov 4, 2014 17:36:20 GMT -5
Even though this is kind of a pioneering record for what would become expected of early 90s house, it sounds like a parody of that style. It has its good factors, but the vocal is so hilariously jarring and over the top that it's hard to take it seriously.
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Post by Dreams on Nov 4, 2014 18:28:55 GMT -5
Even though this is kind of a pioneering record for what would become expected of early 90s house, it sounds like a parody of that style. It has its good factors, but the vocal is so hilariously jarring and over the top that it's hard to take it seriously.Totally. LMAO @ all the barking throughout the song. |
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on Nov 7, 2014 21:18:24 GMT -5
Even though this is kind of a pioneering record for what would become expected of early 90s house, it sounds like a parody of that style. It has its good factors, but the vocal is so hilariously jarring and over the top that it's hard to take it seriously.Totally. LMAO @ all the barking throughout the song. It's amazing how they took just a few bits and pieces of Loleatta's vocals and constructed this song. |
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Post by Ernesto on Nov 17, 2020 20:57:00 GMT -5
This is the kind of over-the-top European '80s House Dance song I can't help but dance to regardless of where I am. It spent 6 massive weeks at No.1 in the U.K. in 1989 which is why it was surprising to find it in the '90s section. Loleatta Holloway vocals are plain fire!!!
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on Nov 17, 2020 21:29:39 GMT -5
During quarantine, I had the time to go through and actually listen to the different versions that had Loleatta's vocals and some of the re-recordings with Heather Small, and I just felt that Heather's vocals as close as they attempted to copy the inflections of Loleatta's voice were not up to par. She is a great singer, but having her try to emulate the incomparable Loleatta was just not gonna happen.
It made me crazy how some of the different editions of the singles had some versions with Loleatta and other with Heather on the same edition as if they couldn't tell.
My workplace had this on their playlist for a short time this year and it was the Loleatta version and then they swapped it out for one that was sung by someone else. I wonder if they ran into a legal issue?
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Post by disman00911 on Nov 18, 2020 14:46:20 GMT -5
I prefer the original with the uncredited Loleatta Holloway vocals (which come from the 1980 disco track "Love Sensation") over the re-recorded version that came after Holloway and her label threatened to sue over being uncredited. However, this isn't even my favorite from this act as I prefer "Everybody, Everybody", "I Don't Know Anybody Else", and "Strike It Up" over this.
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