Songoftheday 9/18/17 - Act like the end of the record and fade out, all that childish stuff is just played out...
from the album The Best Of Bingoboys (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6
Today's song of the day is from the Austrian dance act Bingoboys, who got together in Vienna at the beginning of the 1990s, releasing their first album The Best Of Bingoboys (foreshadowing their fleetingness?) the following year. The first single was a goofy but infectious bit of fun and shovels full of samples, as "How To Dance" riffed off a disco instruction record and added a sassy rap from New Yorker Princessa. The result was a left-field world-wide pop hit...
"How To Dance" became the Bingoboys' sole American top-40 pop hit in April of 1991. The song also spent a week at #1 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the record reached the top ten in their native Austria (#2), as well as in Australia (#3) and the Netherlands (#7), and got into the top-40 in Switzerland (#11), Germany (#22), Belgium (#30), and Sweden (#30). In the UK, the track popped on to the chart for one week at #93.
The boys followed this hit up with "Borrowed Love", an interpolation of the 1986 single from the R&B group the SOS Band, and it reached the top-40 on the American dance chart (#32) and was a minor pop hit as well at #71. Another song from the Best Of album, a take-off of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry", was a #10 hit in their home country. The following year, they returned to their country's top 10 with "Chartbuster" (#5). A second album, Color Of Music, finally arrived in 1995, with "Sugardaddy" becoming their fourth Austrian top ten hit.
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And here's the club mix that helped the song top the dance chart in March of 1991...
Up tomorrow: British pop/dance songstress mines a disco hit for her biggest radio smash.
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