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Post by tozion on Apr 11, 2006 22:19:19 GMT -5
This was a really big dance hit in 1990 with uncredited vocals by Martha Wash. She was the ghost singer for Black Box. That was pretty common around then. They'd have a model lip her lines in the video. The album version of this was really, really house and they remixed it for radio with a new beat and the Larry Blackmon "owws". It went to #8 on the Hot 100, topped the club play chart, and went to #2 R&B. I love all four of their US hits.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Apr 11, 2006 22:24:32 GMT -5
I knew this song even though it came out almost half a decade before I started paying attention to music. It would be played at all sorts of 90's events - baseball games, bar mitzvah's, block parties, etc. I like it, but not enough to listen to intentionally.  at this even charting at R&B let alone going to #2. I know a lot of Dance songs like C+C Music Factory and Crystal Waters did well in the early 90's at R&B, but Black Box just seems even more camp/pop/suburban than those. What were their 3 other hits? |
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Post by tozion on Apr 11, 2006 22:28:08 GMT -5
"Ride On Time" - minor club hit here but major UK #1 -- Loleatta Holloway's vocals from "Love Sensation" were used
"I Don't Know Anybody Else" - moderate hit
"Strike It Up" -- top 10 smash -- major sports event exposure
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Post by HC on Apr 12, 2006 9:49:41 GMT -5
I always liked "Strike It Up" more, but this one is pretty good also. This one had the "owws" though, which is a pleasant addition  |
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Post by moonshadow on Apr 12, 2006 14:34:00 GMT -5
^^ yeah. "Strike It Up" didn't have the "oww", but they had the "dance dance dance dance" and "yeaaaaa."
Early 90s R&B music is so wholly opposite of what it is now.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Apr 12, 2006 14:45:45 GMT -5
I guess this and "Strike It Up" are the onyl 2 songs by them that I know. I prefer this one.
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Post by duh5 on Apr 12, 2006 16:42:57 GMT -5
This and "Strike It Up" are my favorites by them. Love it!
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Post by divaofdance on Apr 12, 2006 23:32:41 GMT -5
Love the vocals. Hate the song
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Post by West End on Apr 19, 2006 16:10:38 GMT -5
The album version of this was really, really house and they remixed it for radio with a new beat and the Larry Blackmon "owws". It went to #8 on the Hot 100, topped the club play chart, and went to #2 R&B. I love all four of their US hits. Actually the US Album Version is also the "Le Freak Mix". "Everybody Everybody" was remixed especifically for the US market, long before it was released as a single. The "Le Freak Mix" (5.20) appears on the "Mixed Up" album, while the "Le Freak Mix - 7" Edit" (4.07) appears on the US edition of "Dreamland", and was also the US Single Version. The "Original" Album Version was released everywhere outside of North America as the third international single (well an edit of the album version). That edit was dubbed the "Love Unlimited Edit" on the US single, which is found on the US promo CD maxi, as well as the cassette single (it's the B-side). French model Katrin Quinol was credited as Black Box vocalist at the time... never mind that she didn't speak a lick of English. In regards to "Ride On Time", at the time of its release, Black Box had never cleared the "Love Sensation" sample, and it wasn't months later, after the song had reach Top 5 around the world (and No. 1 in the UK for 6 weeks), that it was discovered that the song indeed contained a Salsoul sample. Further pressings of the album in the UK (on deConstruction) contain not the original version of "Ride On Time", but a "Massive Mix", with newly re-recorded vocals by uncredited singer Heather Small. Heather was at the time a member of another deConstruction act, Hot!House. Black Box UK hits and peaks: 1989 Ride On Time 1 (6 weeks) 1990 I Don't Know Anybody Else 4 1990 Everybody Everybody 16 1990 Fantasy 5 1990 The Total Mix 12 1991 Strike It Up 16 1991 Open Your Eyes 48 1993 Rockin' To The Music 39 1995 Not Anyone 31 1996 I Got The Vibration (A Positive Vibration) 21 1997 Native New Yorker 46 "Rockin'...", "Not Anyone", "I Got The..." and "Native..." all feature new vocalist Charvoni, ex-lead singer of Brothers In Rhythm. In the US, all singles were released from the 1989-1991 period, with the exception of "The Total Mix". It's interesting to note that Black Box's two US Top 10 smashes underperformed elsewhere, and that both of them were especifically remixed for the US market. The US single version for "Strike It Up" (feat. Stepz), the "DJ Lewellel Edit" is almost impossible to obtain on CD. It's only available on the original US Promo CD Maxi.   "I Don't Know Anybody Else" video.
"Everybody Everybody" US video.
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Post by tozion on Jan 7, 2007 19:52:53 GMT -5
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Post by Be Real on Jan 27, 2007 19:35:13 GMT -5
Definitely their best single.
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Post by AFRO SAMURAI on Jan 27, 2007 20:05:20 GMT -5
I liked this one... Good, strong, church-like vocals.
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Post by musicfan on Jul 8, 2007 2:13:18 GMT -5
It was ok.
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Post by tozion on Sept 23, 2007 19:47:38 GMT -5
Benny Benassi has a new remix of "Everybody, Everybody" out.
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at this even charting at R&B let alone going to #2. I know a lot of Dance songs like C+C Music Factory and Crystal Waters did well in the early 90's at R&B, but Black Box just seems even more camp/pop/suburban than those.
