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"C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" - Quad City DJ's
from the album Get On Up and Dance (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 29

Today's song of the day comes from the "miami bass" group the Quad City DJ's. They were formed by producers Jay Ski and CC Lemonhead (Johnny McGowan and Nathaniel Orange), who had been responsible for a lot of the music coming from that genre, with Lemonhead a member of 95 South ("Whoot! There It Is!"), and the pair producing them and the 69 Boyz ("Tootsie Roll"). In fact, after hiring on singer JeLanna LaFleur, their first appearance on Billboard magazine was on their R&B Airplay chart with a novelty holiday song with the 69 Boyz and K-Nock, "What You Want For Christmas", which went to #62 for a week at the end of 1995. The following spring, Jay Ski, Lemonhead, and LaFleur released their debut single "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)". Built on a sample of Barry White's Theme to The Together Brothers movie, done by the Love Unlimited Orchestra...

The Quad City DJ's transformed that already striking instrumental into a call to the dance floor, and even if "the Train" never really caught on as a dance, the song was arguably the best of the "miami bass" scene...

"C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" became the trio's first top 40 hit, reaching the top ten in August of 1996. The song also went to #15 on Billboard's R&B chart, and to #4 on their Rap Singles list. The track even got on to their Latin Pop radio list at #18. Internationally, the single made the top-40 in Australia (#13) and New Zealand (#30), but surprisingly fizzed in Canada (#76) and the UK (#95). A second single from the Get On Up and Dance album, "Summer Jam", stalled down at #95 on the R&B chart, while only "bubbling under" the pop Hot 100 at #105. But before that, they had one more top-40 hit in them courtesy of a movie starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, which will be an upcoming SOTD. The Get On Up and Dance album did well for a "one-hit wonder" sort of act, making the top-40 at #31 and selling over a million copies.

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Here's the group performing a couple tracks on live TV ("C'mon n Ride It" starts at about 6:29)...

Up tomorrow: The hippie girl from the Great White North makes her debut.