"Light My Fire" is a song by Italian musical group Club House, featuring Italian-American singer Carl Fanini, released as the second single from their debut and only album, ''Nowhere Land (The Album)'' (1995), in August 1993. It was co-written by a number of producers at Media Records, including

Gianfranco Bortolotti Gianfranco Bortolotti (; born 2 May 1959) is an Italian electronic music producer and manager of Media Records and Media Studio. He was a member of Cappella, and 49ers who had several hits, and Fits of Gloom, who had a UK No. 47 hit with "Heaven ...

and

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, a DJ who would go on to have a number of trance hits in the 2000s, such as "Lizard" and "

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Releases

"Light My Fire" was first released as a

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on 23 August 1993, charting at 45 on the

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and No. 19 in

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, where it is remembered as the record the original six man line-up of

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danced to on

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's '' The Late Late Show''. A re-release the following year with new remixes by fellow Media Records act

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saw it reach No. 11 in Ireland, and No. 26 in

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. In the United Kingdom, Media Records had licensed the single to Pete Waterman's PWL record label (as UK Media Records would not be launched for another couple of years), with the Cappella version becoming another top 10 hit for PWL, when it peaked at No. 7 in early 1994. The single was also a hit in Scandinavia and the US.

Critical reception

In August 1994,

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from ''

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'' remarked that the song "has already wooed folks overseas".

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noted in his weekly UK chart commentary, that it "has been filling floors up and down the country". Alan Jones from ''

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'' rated it four out of five, describing it as a "happy Italian record in

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style, right down to the ersatz Andy Bell

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." In 1993, James Hamilton from the '' RM'' Dance Update called it "catchy "hey down dippy doo day-ah" chanting reissued now much more timely smash bound scampering Italo

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". In 1994, he deemed it an "infectious Italo Hi-NRG galloper".

Track listings

* CD single, UK (PWL Continental, 1993) # "Light My Fire" (edit) – 3:32 # "Light My Fire" (Noisy Clouds mix) – 4:55 # "Light My Fire" (Storm in the Clouds mix) – 5:06 # "Light My Fire" (X Club cut) – 6:12 # "Light My Fire" (XX Club cut) – 5:24 # "Light My Fire" (R.A.F. Track) – 1:59 * CD single - The Cappella Remixes, UK (PWL Records 1994) # "Light My Fire" (Cappella (R.A.F. Zone) remix edit) – 3:39 # "Light My Fire" (Cappella (KM) remix) – 6:17 # "Light My Fire" (Cappella (R.A.F. Zone) remix) – 6:07 # "Light My Fire" (DJ Professor XX dub) – 6:29 # "Light My Fire" (original 12-inch mix) – 4:54

Charts

Release history

References

{{Authority control 1993 singles 1993 songs 1994 singles Club House (band) songs English-language Italian songs Pete Waterman Entertainment singles Songs written by Gianfranco Bortolotti