"To Be Able To Love," Jessica Folker

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Scandinavian pop singer Jessica Folker had an excellent pop song in 2001 with "To Be Able to Love." Her sensual vocals and sweet message made a big impression in Europe, but failed to make much of a dent in the United States. This single includes the album version, an instrumental version, and another track called "Tell Me Why."

Jonathan Peters turned this pretty bland pop song into a fantastic dance hit that was released in the US in late 2001.

Hot Dance Music/Club Play: #19

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Here's a clip!

[strong4PMB!]

I have only heard clips of this song before. The clips never stood out to me, so I never downloaded it. My friend loved it though.

[WhySoSerious?]

Hot remixes.

[George Tropicana]

On the "On The Line" soundtrack!

[reception]

Here's the Twisted Dee Impressive Mix.

[Sean]

OK but nothing special

[Moonshadow]

The said:

Jonathan Peters turned this pretty bland pop song into a fantastic dance hit that was released in the US in late 2001.

Hot Dance Music/Club Play: #19

KTU still plays the Jonathan Peters radio edit (which took me months to track down) to this day. Definitely a great dance track that deserved much more airplay than it received.

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

i'm surprised the Peters radio edit was that hard to find...it was widely released on the On The Line soundtrack. Loved it then, which reminds me that i've gotta rip it and put it on my Lyra...

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Jessica had a couple of hit albums released in Sweden before this was released in the U.S. She was signed to Jive Records in Sweden. A Dance music record label named Nervous Records licensed this song and they got Jonathan Peters to do some remixes. Jonathan had been really popular at that time with his remixes for Donna Summer, Janet Jackson, Paula Cole, Whitney Houston, and others. The single was only released on vinyl initially by Nervous. Nearly 6 months later, a CD maxi was released by Jive Records to coincide with the song's inclusion in the movie On The Line which starred Lance Bass (the 6 month gap between when the Jonathan mix was first done and when the CD single was released would explain why it was so hard to find). The label didn't promote the single at all in the U.S. and it ultimately flopped. The main Jonathan mix went on to be a classic at the Sound Factory club in New York.

Listen here:

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I was a big fan of this when it came out. It was on one of those Groovilicious record label annual compilations and that was where I discovered it. I used to hear it in the ad on the radio for this one Louie Devito club mix CD compilation too, but they never said which song it was or who did it. I was pleasantly surprised when I bought that one comp that had and there it was.

I think Jonathan Peters (and his programmer Tony Coluccio) did an amazing job on this remix. It is easily one of the best mixes they did during that period.

[♛ The Manticore ☯]

Love this. Yeah this was on the Louie Devito Compilation NYC Underground Party Vol. 4. That compilation was great since it had her, Voodoo & Serano, Digital Allies "Without You", Aubrey's "Stand Still", Jana's "More Than Life" and others. Jonathan Peters did an awesome job with the remix. And was played quite a bit on KTU around 2001/2002.

[esoteric76]

Love the JP remix, but I am also a really big fan of the regular version as well. Jessica worked with Max Martin's Cheiron writing team for a bunch of material, all catchy stuff!

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Jonathan Peters Club Mix


Jonathan Peters Sound Factory Dub

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One thing that must be noted about the Club Mix is that the tempo on the club mix is higher than on the radio edit. WKTU used to play their own radio edit of the club mix. The edit on the single is different.

The Sound Factory Dub has a totally different production as programmed by Jim Heinz (RIP). Those aggressive, electro, frantic mixes/dubs were always done by him, often having little to no vocals on the mixes.

[♛ The Manticore ☯]

I'm still a fan of this. Simply breathtaking.