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Now That's What I Call 80s Dance
''Now That's What I Call 80s Dance'' or ''Now 80s Dance'' is a triple-disc compilation album which was released in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2013. It includes nearly 60 of the biggest dance anthems of the 1980s era. Track listing CD 1 #Black Box (band), Black Box – Ride On Time #S'Express – Theme from S-Express #Yazz, Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up #MARRS – Pump Up the Volume (song), Pump Up The Volume #Technotronic – Pump Up the Jam #Coldcut featuring Lisa Stansfield – People Hold On #Steve "Silk" Hurley – Jack Your Body #Miami Sound Machine – Doctor beat, Doctor Beat #Beatmasters featuring Betty Boo – I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playing, Hey DJ / I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing #Farley Jackmaster Funk & Jesse Saunders featuring Darryl Pandy – Love Can't Turn Around #Bomb the Bass – Beat Dis #Coldcut featuring Yazz, Yazz & The Plastic Population – Doctorin' the House #Mantronix – Got to Have Your Love #Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Pandy
Darryl Pandy (born December 24, 1962, died on June 10, 2011 at age 48Gregory Paratore: "Darryl Pandy RIP" , June 12, 2011 (retrieved November 24, 2019).) was an American and singer from . Music career Coming from a |
Jesse Saunders
Jesse Saunders (born March 10, 1962) is an American house music artist, DJ, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur. His 1984 single, "On & On", co-written with Vince Lawrence, was the first record with a house DJ as the artist that was pressed and sold to the public. Since his emergence as a DJ, Saunders has run several of his own independent labels, and worked extensively in music and film production, as well as artist promotion and management. He is also a long-time member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Early years Saunders was born and grew up on the south side of Chicago, Illinois in the 1960s and 70s. He attended St. Columbanus for Kindergarten and Reavis Elementary School (until 5th grade) where his mother, Lois M. Saunders, was a teacher. A Roosevelt University graduate in Early Childhood Education, she was his primary caregiver and a supporter of his sporting and music pursuits. Jesse Saunders then enrolled in Shoesmith Elementary S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farley Jackmaster Funk
Farley may refer to: People * Farley (name), a list of people with the given name or surname Places Antarctica * Mount Farley * Farley Massif Australia * Farley, New South Wales * Farley railway station England * Farley, Derbyshire * Farley, Staffordshire * Farley, Surrey * Farley, Wiltshire United States * Farley, California * Farley, Iowa * Farley, Kentucky * Farley, Missouri * Farley, West Virginia * Farley Township, Polk County, Minnesota * Farley Hall (University of Notre Dame) * Farley (Culpeper County, Virginia) * Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant * James A. Farley Building Arts and entertainment * Farley (comic strip), ''Farley'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Phil Frank in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' * Farley (Sesame Street), Farley (''Sesame Street''), in ''Sesame Street'' * Farley, a sheepdog in the comic strip ''List of For Better or For Worse characters#Dogs, For Better or For Worse'' Businesses * Farley's, British food maker, now owned by Heinz * Farley's & Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing
"I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin'" is a 1968 funk-soul music, soul single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas (credited as Martha Reeves & the Vandellas). Background It's notable for featuring background vocals by The Andantes (who had been in a succession of Vandellas singles since "My Baby Loves Me (Martha and the Vandellas song), My Baby Loves Me") and Syreeta Wright, who had recently signed to the Motown label and was dating Motown artist Stevie Wonder, at the time. The song talked about how one woman's musician boyfriend leaving her with questions about how he was running off without giving the woman a hint of what he was exactly doing. Reeves would later say that the reason why the chorus was sung by Wright and not by Reeves was because she and the Vandellas had a touring schedule that did not allowed her to re-record the chorus, which had been changed with different music. The original recording circulates among collectors, but Reeves can be heard sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Boo
Alison Moira Clarkson (born 6 March 1970 in Kensington, London), better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and rapper. She first came to mainstream prominence in the late 1980s following a collaboration with the Beatmasters on the song "Hey DJ/I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing)". Between 1990 and 1992 she had a successful solo career, which spawned a number of chart-placing singles, most notably " Doin' the Do", "Where Are You Baby?", and "Let Me Take You There". Career 1987–1999: Betty Boo Clarkson studied sound engineering at the Holloway School of Audio Engineering before having a string of hits between 1989 and 1992. Originally nicknamed " Betty Boop" for her similarity to the cartoon character, she changed it to avoid trademark disputes. Of mixed Dusun and Scottish ancestry, she had an unusual, striking Emma Peel-like look, dressed in mildly revealing outfits and proved to be an influential pop music figure whose "sassy, powerful music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatmasters
The Beatmasters are an English electronic music group who gained success in the UK in the late 1980s with four top 20 hit singles. They then went on to produce and remix records for many other artists. The group's string of chart hit singles include "Burn It Up", "Hey DJ! (I Can't Dance to that Music You're Playing)", "Who's in the House" (featuring Merlin) and "Rok da House". The latter, having been recorded in 1986, is one of the earliest examples of hip house and most likely the first song of the genre. Hip house is a subgenre of house music which features rap vocals performed over a house rhythm track. Their initial success brought comparisons with pop record producers Stock Aitken Waterman, but the Beatmasters cited rival producers Coldcut as their major competitor. Formation Manda Glanfield and Paul Carter (both regulars on the London club scene) were working in the TV commercial jingle industry where they were introduced to third member, Richard Walmsley. Signing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Beat
"Dr. Beat" is the first international single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine, led by Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan, on their first English language, but eighth overall, studio album, ''Eyes of Innocence (Miami Sound Machine album), Eyes of Innocence'' (1984). The song which was written by the band's lead songwriter and drummer Enrique "Kiki" Garcia and was released worldwide in 1984 becoming a top success across Europe where the album impacted the charts with this hit. Song history "Dr. Beat" was not quite as popular in the United States, US as some of Miami Sound Machine's later singles, only peaking at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Songs, Hot Dance Club Play chart. However, it became one of the group's biggest international hits, reaching the top 10 in Spain and peaking at number six in the United Kingdom. The song has maintained popularity through inclusion on a number of 1980s retrospective albums. It also became popular again in 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami Sound Machine
Miami Sound Machine was an American band of Latin-influenced music that had featured the vocals of Cuban-born recording artist Gloria Estefan (née Fajardo). Established in 1975 by Emilio Estefan Jr., the band was originally known as the Miami Latin Boys before becoming the Miami Sound Machine in 1977. The band had a number of albums and a string of hit singles until 1989. The band's 1985 album ''Primitive Love'' credited the band whereas their follow-up album '' Let It Loose'' in 1987 placed Gloria Estefan at the forefront. From 1988 to 1989, the latter album was also repackaged as ''Anything For You'' with new cover art with the international release in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In 1989, the group's name ceased being included on the CD or album products—as Estefan continued as a solo artist. Background In 1975, Gloria and her cousin Mercedes "Merci" Navarro (1957–2007) met Emilio Estefan Jr. while performing at a church ensemble rehearsal. Estefan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Your Body
"Jack Your Body" is a house music song by Steve "Silk" Hurley, originally released as a single in 1986. It was featured on the album ''Hold on to Your Dream'', released in 1987, under the alias J.M. Silk. History One of the landmark records in the history of house music, "Jack Your Body" was composed and produced by Hurley. The title refers to jacking, an ecstatic dance style that emerged within the Chicago house scene since the early to mid 1980s. The song climbed to number twenty-five on the Dance Club Songs, U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, reaching number thirty-seven for the Dance Club Songs, U.S. Maxi-Singles Sales category. Despite its only moderate success in the U.S. chart, the song became a major hit on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number one for two weeks in January and February 1987. It was the UK's first house music number one, and paved the way for the acid house sound popular during the late 1980s. "Jack Your Body" was also the first UK numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve "Silk" Hurley
Steve W. "Silk" Hurley (born November 9, 1962), also known as J. M. Silk (for "Jack Master Silk"), is an American club DJ, house music producer, and songwriter. From 1985 to 1988, he had four top-10 singles on the US Dance chart, including the number-one hit " I Can't Turn Around", all released in collaboration with Keith Nunnally as J. M. Silk. With "Jack Your Body" (number 25 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play), he topped the UK Singles Chart in January 1987 as a solo artist, while one of his later compositions, " Work It Out" from 1989, brought him his fifth top-10 record on the US Dance chart (at number three). To date, Hurley's last charting single is " The Word Is Love (Say the Word)", also known as "Silk's Anthem of Life" by The Voices of Life, which peaked at number 26 in 1997 in the UK. Hurley is a four-time Grammy Award nominee; two times as Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical (in 1999 and 2000), and twice for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
