Robbed hit of the week 1/6/20: The Bucketheads' "The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)"...
from the album All In My Mind (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #49
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Bucketheads, which was a side project moniker for DJ and producer Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. A New York native, Kenny grew up in Brooklyn and eventually hooked up with "Little" Louie Vega to form the remixing duo Masters At Work (Todd Terry also remixed material under that name as well). In the early 1990s, Kenny and Louie set out and started recording original material under the Masters At Work name. Their first success was with singer Xaviera Gold, with the song "Gonna Get Back To You", which topped Billboard magazine's Dance Club Play list for a week in 1993. That was followed by "I Can't Get No Sleep" featuring Latin singer India, which claimed a second #1 dance hit.
In 1995, Kenny, using the Bucketheads moniker, released the club single "The Bomb! (These Sound Fall Into My Mind)". Based on a prominent instrumental sample of jazz-rock turned soft-rock band Chicago's excursion into disco in the 1970s, "Street Player", using only one line of Peter Cetera's vocals on the record. It came a big club hit, then even a pop commercial success, even predicating a video directed by Guy Ritchie...
"The Bomb!" spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Play chart. While the song became a big success in England, climbing to #5 on the British singles chart, it stalled right above the halfway mark on the American official Hot 100 list in August of 1995. A second single was released in "Got Myself Together", which also topped the dance chart for two weeks, and climbed to #12 in the UK, but failed to reach the American pop list. But with the British success, Kenny put together a studio album, All In The Mind, which landed at #74 in the UK.
Gonzalez reunited with Vega, first as "Ken-Lou", spending a week at #2 on the dance chart in 1996 with "What A Sensation". The next year the duo released an album under the name Nuyorican Soul, which spun off three top-40 pop hits in the UK, including a remake of the disco classic "Runaway" featuring India, which topped the Billboard dance charts and hit #24 in Britain. They returned at MAW (Masters at Work) in 1997 with the #4 club hit "To Be In Love". They continue to record and DJ live; their most recent chart hit so far has been in 2002 with "Backfired" with India (#18 Dance).
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Here's the remix done by Armand Van Helden, which helped the song top the club chart for two weeks...
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