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From '' Lite Frost ''
Label: Lite Frost Records – No. 333
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1976
Tracklist
A1 Four Seasons Medley
A2 I Write The Songs
A3 Boogie With The Beat
A4 Till I Can Make It On My Own
A5 Dancin' In The Streets
B1 Boogie Fever
B2 Sunshine
B3 I've Got A Feeling
B4 Best Thing That Happened To Me
B5 My Way
Performer – Dean Middleton, Merry Herbert, Rita Beach
Design [Cover] – Fran Ritchie
Engineer – Wes Owens
Producer – Lite Frost
Notes
Manufactured By – Nashville Record Productions – NR7514
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Dancing in the Street" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, and Ivy Jo Hunter for Martha and the Vandellas in 1964, whose version reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, behind "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann. It also peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart following a rerelease in 1969. It is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature song.
A 1966 cover by the Mamas & the Papas was a minor hit on the Hot 100, reaching No. 73. In 1982, the rock group Van Halen took their cover of "Dancing in the Street" to No. 38 on the Hot 100 chart and No. 15 in Canada on the RPM chart. A 1985 duet cover by David Bowie and Mick Jagger charted at No. 1 in the UK and reached No. 7 in the US. The song has been covered by many other artists, including the Kinks, Tages, Grateful Dead, Myra and Black Oak Arkansas.
Background
Reeves recounted that she initially regarded the song as too repetitive. Gaye and Stevenson agreed and including new Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter added in musical composition. Martha Reeves remembered Marvin Gaye recorded the song first and sang it as though singing to a lover. Reeves, envisioning block parties and Mardi Gras, asked the producers to let her sing it her way. The song was recorded in two takes. The song's writers made sure to include Detroit as one of the cities mentioned with the lyric: "Can't forget the Motor City".
Civil rights anthem
"Motown records had a distinct role to play in the city's black community, and that community—as diverse as it was—articulated and promoted its own social, cultural, and political agendas. These local agendas, which reflected the unique concerns of African Americans living in the urban north, both responded to and reconfigured the national civil rights campaign" (Smith 227). The movement lent the song its secondary meaning and the song with its second meaning fanned the flames of unrest. This song (and others like it) and its associated political meanings did not exist in a vacuum. It was a partner with its social environment and they both played upon each other, creating meaning that could not have been brought on by one or the other alone. The song therefore became a call to reject peace for the chance that unified unrest could bring about the freedom that suppressed minorities all across the United States so craved.
Reception
"Dancing in the Street" peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart when it was originally released as the group's third album Dance Party's first single in 1964 (see 1964 in music), with "There He Is (At My Door)" included as a B-side. "Dancing in the Street" also reached the Top 5 on the UK Singles Chart peaking at No. 4 in a 1969 release after initially peaking at No. 28 on the chart and helped to revive the Vandellas' success in the UK.
Cash Box described it as "an infectious romp that drops names of various locales as it declares that dancing is sweeping the country", stating that it is "one of those sure-fire sock-rock productions."
Martha and the Vandellas' version of "Dancing in the Street" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. In 2006, this version was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. Lead singer Martha Reeves said she was thrilled about the song's perseverance, saying "It's a song that just makes you want to get up and dance".
In 2013, the original Motown recording was remixed for club and summer celebration airplay by Minneapolis' Billboard charting producer/remixer Joel Dickinson as well as Danny Shaffer.
Billboard named the song No. 29 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.
Notable cover versions
The Kinks - 1965
The Mamas and the Papas - 1966
Tages - 1966
Grateful Dead
Van Halen
David Bowie and Mick Jagger - 1985
Myra - 2001(for the Disney film Recess: School's Out)
~ more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Street
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Dance with Me" is a hit single by American soft rock band Orleans from their second studio album, Orleans II (1974).
The song was issued as a single on July 19, 1975, to become Orleans' first Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of October 18, 1975.
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Chapters
0:00 Dancing In The Street
1:59 Dance With Me
From '' Lite Frost ''
Label: Lite Frost Records – No. 333
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1976
Tracklist
A1 Four Seasons Medley
A2 I Write The Songs
A3 Boogie With The Beat
A4 Till I Can Make It On My Own
A5 Dancin' In The Streets
B1 Boogie Fever
B2 Sunshine
B3 I've Got A Feeling
B4 Best Thing That Happened To Me
B5 My Way
Performer – Dean Middleton, Merry Herbert, Rita Beach
Design [Cover] – Fran Ritchie
Engineer – Wes Owens
Producer – Lite Frost
Notes
Manufactured By – Nashville Record Productions – NR7514
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Dancing in the Street" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, and Ivy Jo Hunter for Martha and the Vandellas in 1964, whose version reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, behind "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann. It also peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart following a rerelease in 1969. It is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature song.
A 1966 cover by the Mamas & the Papas was a minor hit on the Hot 100, reaching No. 73. In 1982, the rock group Van Halen took their cover of "Dancing in the Street" to No. 38 on the Hot 100 chart and No. 15 in Canada on the RPM chart. A 1985 duet cover by David Bowie and Mick Jagger charted at No. 1 in the UK and reached No. 7 in the US. The song has been covered by many other artists, including the Kinks, Tages, Grateful Dead, Myra and Black Oak Arkansas.
Background
Reeves recounted that she initially regarded the song as too repetitive. Gaye and Stevenson agreed and including new Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter added in musical composition. Martha Reeves remembered Marvin Gaye recorded the song first and sang it as though singing to a lover. Reeves, envisioning block parties and Mardi Gras, asked the producers to let her sing it her way. The song was recorded in two takes. The song's writers made sure to include Detroit as one of the cities mentioned with the lyric: "Can't forget the Motor City".
Civil rights anthem
"Motown records had a distinct role to play in the city's black community, and that community—as diverse as it was—articulated and promoted its own social, cultural, and political agendas. These local agendas, which reflected the unique concerns of African Americans living in the urban north, both responded to and reconfigured the national civil rights campaign" (Smith 227). The movement lent the song its secondary meaning and the song with its second meaning fanned the flames of unrest. This song (and others like it) and its associated political meanings did not exist in a vacuum. It was a partner with its social environment and they both played upon each other, creating meaning that could not have been brought on by one or the other alone. The song therefore became a call to reject peace for the chance that unified unrest could bring about the freedom that suppressed minorities all across the United States so craved.
Reception
"Dancing in the Street" peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart when it was originally released as the group's third album Dance Party's first single in 1964 (see 1964 in music), with "There He Is (At My Door)" included as a B-side. "Dancing in the Street" also reached the Top 5 on the UK Singles Chart peaking at No. 4 in a 1969 release after initially peaking at No. 28 on the chart and helped to revive the Vandellas' success in the UK.
Cash Box described it as "an infectious romp that drops names of various locales as it declares that dancing is sweeping the country", stating that it is "one of those sure-fire sock-rock productions."
Martha and the Vandellas' version of "Dancing in the Street" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. In 2006, this version was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. Lead singer Martha Reeves said she was thrilled about the song's perseverance, saying "It's a song that just makes you want to get up and dance".
In 2013, the original Motown recording was remixed for club and summer celebration airplay by Minneapolis' Billboard charting producer/remixer Joel Dickinson as well as Danny Shaffer.
Billboard named the song No. 29 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.
Notable cover versions
The Kinks - 1965
The Mamas and the Papas - 1966
Tages - 1966
Grateful Dead
Van Halen
David Bowie and Mick Jagger - 1985
Myra - 2001(for the Disney film Recess: School's Out)
~ more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Street
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Dance with Me" is a hit single by American soft rock band Orleans from their second studio album, Orleans II (1974).
The song was issued as a single on July 19, 1975, to become Orleans' first Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of October 18, 1975.
#litefrost
#dancinginthestreet
#funk
#marthaandthevandellascover
Chapters
0:00 Dancing In The Street
1:59 Dance With Me
