"Love Sensation," Loleatta Holloway

[tozion]

If it weren't for Loleatta Holloway and her vocals on this track, many of the early house tracks wouldn't even exist. This was a very influential track. It's been sent to the clubs in 1980, 1983, and 1993. It went #1 initially.

[tozion]

"Love Sensation" was ranked #14 on Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Dance Songs.

Loleatta Holloway's gospel-trained voice was big enough not only to represent disco and Salsoul (the fierce ruling label of the disco and boogie years that she called home from '78-'84), but diva-dom as a whole. Holloway's vocals from 1980's "Love Sensation," which housed so many repeated vocal hooks that it'd be virtually impossible to pick a chorus if the song's name didn't point you to it, were sampled incessantly in the wake of disco via the music it spawned, perhaps most famously and least understood, in the 1989 misquoting Italo-house anthem "Ride On Time" by Black Box). It wasn't until Marky Mark used a sample of "Love Sensation" for his 1991 hit "Good Vibrations" that Holloway received on-paper credit for the reuse of her wailing (she even appeared in the video). By then, it was long overdue.

[divaofdance]

This is an incredible song. This has been remade/resampled sooooooooo many times it's not even funny.

There's some new remakes of it out now that are hard trance. They didn't get permission to use her vocals so they got some sh*tty vocalist to do it instead.