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"No Parking (On the Dance Floor)" is the title track from Midnight Star's fourth and most successful album, ''
No Parking on the Dance Floor ''No Parking on the Dance Floor'' is an album by American vocal band Midnight Star, released on June 6, 1983. The album contains the singles "Freak-A-Zoid", "Wet My Whistle", "Electricity" and "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)", as well as the se ...
''. In the US, the song reached number 43 on the
R&B chart The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by ''Billboard''. Rankings are based on a measure of radio airplay, sales data, and streaming activity. The chart had 100 p ...
, number 44 on the dance chart, and number 81 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song has been sampled by several artists since its 1983 release, including
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's song from 2003, "Mr. Bartender (It's So Easy)". The basic melody was sampled by the
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in their 1984 hit "Freakshow on the Dance Floor" and in Popula Demand's 1988 song "Don't Clock Me". It was lyrically referenced in They Might Be Giants' 2018 song "Let's Get This Over With" from their album
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1984 singles Midnight Star songs 1983 songs Songs about dancing SOLAR Records singles {{1980s-R&B-song-stub