Songoftheday 10/7/14 - you do me oh so right my heart goes beat beat, beat beat, beat beat...

Miami Sound Machine - "Bad Boy"
from the album Primitive Love (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day comes from the Cuban-American band led by singer Gloria Estefan, the Miami Sound Machine, who transformed from a Latin pop group to a mainstream dance act with their breakthrough single "Conga". Their follow-up was a pure-pop track that had the bounce and playfulness of sixties girl-groups with a bit of brass flair sprinkled in. It was as far from "Conga" (or Latin music, for that matter) as they got on the record, and with a mix from club fave Shep Pettibone, it further entrenched them on top-40 radio. Written by Larry Dermer along with arrangers Joe Galdo (who was a percussionist in Foxy) and Rafael Vigil, the song was promoted with two different music videos...

"Bad Boy" became the band's second top-10 pop hit in May of 1986, while climbing to #10 on Billboard's Dance Club Play list. The record also crossed over to the Adult Contemporary radio chart (#8) and even to R&B (then called the "Black Singles" chart #74). Internationally, the record went top-ten in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Holland in central Europe, while in England it put them back into the top 40 at #16 (their pre-American success "Dr. Beat" went top-10 here).

But most importantly, "Bad Boy" cast aside any "novelty" assumptions brought on by the success of "Conga".

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The first video made for the song featured more of the band (hmmm... a later decision to more prominently pump up Gloria?) but just as elaborate a storyline...

...and here's Gloria live in 1988...

In 1997, rapper Mase cribbed from the MSM for a hook on his debut single "Feel So Good", which went to #5 on the pop and R&B charts...


Mase: Feel so good by BLACKMUSICS

Finally, a year later and Gloria is singing it on Live By Request...

Up tomorrow: a California rocker singing towards his country.