Songoftheday 6/20/17 - This is a song about those bad days start out happy and end up sad days, talkin' about that Murphy's law chill if it can go wrong yes it will...
from the album World Power (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2
Today's song of the day comes from the German-based dance act Snap!, who had a huge international hit with the club jam "The Power" that ended up climbing to #2 on the American pop chart in the summer of 1990. Their follow-up single, "Ooops Up", used the Gap Band's funk classic "I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops)" as a foundation. That record, released in 1980, hit the top ten on the American R&B (#4) and British pop singles (#6) charts...
Snap's update, which featured singer Penny Ford now as an official member (she was a singer in the Gap Band's outfit back in the day), brought the beat back to the club with a rap written by Turbo B (Durron Butler) over a house music beat provided by the act's leaders/producers Michael Münzing
and Luca Anzilotti...
"Ooops Up" became Snap!'s second top-40 pop hit in October of 1990. The single climbed to #18 on Billboard's R&B chart and #3 on their Rap Singles list. The remixes on the 12" record helped the track up to #4 on the Dance Club Play chart in America. Internationally, the song reached the top ten in their native Germany (#2), the Netherlands (#2), Austria (#2), Sweden (#2), Switzerland (#2), Norway (#2), Australia (#4), Belgium (#4), the UK (#5), Italy (#6), Ireland (#6), Spain (#6), and New Zealand (#8).
A third single from the World Power record, "Cult Of Snap", didn't reach America, but was a big European hit, reaching the top ten in the Netherlands (#2), Germany (#3), and the UK (#8) among others. But the fourth release, "Mary Had A Little Boy", did make the States, where it climbed to #4 on the Dance Club Play chart at #56 on the R&B list. While the group was preparing their next album, Ford left to return to her solo career, hitting the top 40 on the R&B chart with "Daydreaming" in 1993, while also recording with Soul II Soul.
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Here's one of the remixes (the "Other" mix) that got the track to the #4 on the dance chart....
Here they are appearing on Soul Train to promote the single...
Lastly, Snap! in concert in Germany in 1990 with "The Power" and "Ooops Up"...
Up tomorrow: Glam metal boys need a little faith.
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