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"Call Me" - Le Click

from the album Tonight Is The Night (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's song of the day comes from the German-based Eurodance act Le Click, which was put together in Frankfurt in the mid-1990 by producer Frank Farian, the man behind the notorious duo Milli Vanilli. In fact, the duo's first single in 1995, "Tonight Is The Night", featured vocals from Melanie Thornton, who was already singing in another of his act, La Bouche (see what he did there) of "Be My Lover" fame. That track made it to #22 on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Play chart in America, and #68 on the Hot 100 pop chart. After that, Swedish singer Kayo Shekoni joined rapper Robert Haynes to officially made the duo, where in 1997 they released their next single "Call Me". Written by Haynes with Nosie Katzmann, Uwe Wagenknecht, and "G.A. Saraf" (actually producer Farian using an alias to hide his Milli Vanilli stank), the by-the-numbers Eurodance track picked up where La Bouche left off after their album ran its course in the States. It became the duo's biggest single...

"Call Me" became Le Click's first and only top-40 pop hit in America in June of 1997. The remixes of the song helped it rise to #4 on Billboard's Dance Club Play list as well. Internationally, the single was a top-40 hit in the UK at #38. The Tonight Is The Night album, released that July, didn't make the Billboard 200 sales list but popped on to their upcoming artist "Heatseeker" chart at #49.

The act's next single from the record, "Don't Go", peaked at #62 on the pop Hot 100 and #18 on the Dance Club Play tally, and would be their final showing. The act dissolved after that, with Shekoni going back to singing solo and backup, and was a part of her home country's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002 as part of Afro-dite performing "Never Let It Go" and coming in eighth in the competition. She would eventually fill in when Melanie passed away for La Bouche.

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Here's the extended mix of the song that made the top five of the dance chart...

And the duo appearing on German TV to promote the single...

Up tomorrow: Previously mulleted soft-pop star traveled far for a Disney movie.