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from the album Anything Goes! (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2
Today's song comes from the dance production duo of C+C Music Factory, who had ruled the airwaves and dancefloors in 1991 with three massive singles: "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...", "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)", and the #1 club classic "Gonna Make You Sweat". (A fourth single, "Just A Touch Of Love", missed the pop top-40, but claimed a fourth #1 dance hit.) The following year, Rob Clivilles and David Cole released a collection of their remixes in and out of the Factory, and a double-sided single "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"/"Deeper Love" also nearly made the pop top-40 with "Deeper Love" topping the dance chart. Also, using the C+C Music Factory moniker the pair scored yet another #1 dance hit with "Keep It Comin' (Dance Til You Can't Dance No More)" from the movie soundtrack to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. But while it became a top-40 hit in the UK at #34, it stalled down at #83 on the pop Hot 100 in America.
In 1994, Clivilles & Cole released their sophomore C&C Music Factory album, Anything Goes!. Although Martha Wash and the duo resolved their differences and she joined them on the album with credited vocals, Freedom Williams had gone, to be replaced by the freestyle act Trilogy. Wash and Zelma Davis are featured on two tracks apiece, with both appearing on the lead single "Do You Wanna Get Funky". A midtempo groove on the album version, the single remix transformed it into a club banger at the time...
"Do You Wanna Get Funky" slipped into the bottom rung of the American pop top-40 in September of 1994. The song did better on urban stations, peaking at #11 on Billboard's R&B chart, while it claimed their sixth #1 Dance Club Play hit. Internationally, the song went all the way to #2 in New Zealand, while being a top-40 hit in Australia (#11), the Netherlands (#18), the UK (#27), and Sweden (#37), while just missing the mark in Germany at #41. The second single from Anything Goes!, "Take A Toke", reached #23 on the American dance chart, while being a top-40 hit in the UK at #26 as a double A-side with "I Found Love", which got to #13 on the American dance chart. Finally, "Robi-Rob's Boriqua Anthem" made it to #29 on the dance club play list.
The start of 1995 marked tragedy as David Cole passed away from complications brought on by AIDS. Clivilles carried on with the C+C Music Factory name for one more self-titled album with a new label, MCA. From it the single "I'll Always Be Around", featuring Vic Black and A.S.K.M.E., gave the act their final #1 Dance Club Play hit while also going to #75 on the R&B chart. A second release, "Music Es Mi Vida (Robi-Rob's Boriqua Anthem Part II)" climbed to #8 on the Dance Club Play tally. The next year, Clivilles released a solo-billed project (as "Robi-Rob's Clubworld"), which got "Shake That Body", featuring Ya Kid K from Technotronic, to #3. Most recently, Rob had a club hit with "Set Me Free" featuring Kimberly Davis and Nile Rodgers of Chic.
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And here's the Music Factory's house music transformation on the 12" single...
Up tomorrow: German Eurodance act are "genuine"-ly having a repetitive evening.
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