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from the albums Space Invaders (Germany, 1994) and Another Night (US, 1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 17
Today's song of the day comes from the German Eurodance act Real McCoy, who actually started out as a Milli-Vanilli-esque club act that used session singers and lipsyncing frontmen. After a span of success in Europe, Arista Records head Clive Davis helped solidify the group's image while bringing them a stateside top ten pop hit with "Another Night" in the fall of 1994. For their next single in America Clive had them revive a song their originally released as MC Saar & The Real McCoy back at the beginning of the year in Europe, "Run Away". Patsy Petersen is still miming Karan Kasar's original vocals in both the American and European versions, while O'Jay Jeglitza, who wrote the song with original bandmember Juergen Wind and producer Frank Haass, now does his own rap...
"Run Away" became the Real McCoy's second (and final) top ten pop hit in April of 1995. The song also peaked at #3 on the Dance Club Play chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Australia (#4), Finland (#4), Ireland (#5), the UK (#6), and New Zealand (#6), It also placed at #11 in Sweden and Belgium, Austria (#24), Switzerland (#25), Canada (#33), the Netherlands (#38), and even in their home base of Germany, where it stalled down at #22.
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Here's the European version of the single, which already had Jeglitza fronting the act...
Also, a second remix, which helped the act go to #4 on the dance chart...
...and the act appearing on Top Of The Pops to a very enthusiastic crowd...
Up tomorrow: A song praising a dad and a death.
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