Dancing in the Street

Dancing in the Street is a hit single, originally released in 1964 by the American soul group Martha & The Vandellas .

Contents

 * 1 Martha & The Vandellas
 * 1.1 History
 * 1.2 Occupation
 * 2 Cover Versions
 * 2.1 David Bowie and Mick Jagger
 * 2.1.1 Occupancy
 * 2.1.2 Hitnoteringen
 * 2.2 Alain Clark & Ben Saunders
 * 2.2.1 Hitnotering
 * 3 References

History
It was the first song of the album Dance Party, which was released as a single. The other two were Wild One and Nowhere To Run . That, however, would not be as successful as Dancing in the Street, the biggest hit of Martha & The Vandellas became, both in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. In the US, it came to the second position on the Billboard Hot 100 . In the UK peaked Dancing in the Street originally in the top 20, but in 1969 the disc jockey Alan Freeman began to turn it on its own initiative on BBC Radio One . Record label Tamla-Motown hastened to bring the number again and ended up in fourth place. This caused a new wave of popularity Martha & The Vandellas in Britain. In Ireland, the song became a hit late 60s. Besides the aforementioned success knew the song reached the top 10 on the R & B list and the top 40 in Canada. Also obtained the fortieth position on the list of 500 best songs according to the American magazine Rolling Stone .

After a string of hits written by the songwriter trio Holland-Dozier-Holland was Dancing in the Street the first hit of Martha & The Vandellas that was written by William "Mickey" Stevenson . He did this in cooperation with Ivy Jo Hunter and Marvin Gaye, like Martha & The Vandellas an artist of the record company Motown . Initially Stevenson wrote the song as a ballad . When he showed it to Marvin Gaye, thinking that it was a more danceable song, which reached its final form. The two had Kim Weston in mind to record the song, but they turned it down. Therefore Martha & The Vandellas were given the chance to add to their repertoire .. [1] Lead singer Martha Reeves worked itself the vocal arrangement, so that it suited her voice. Ivy Jo Hunter became the credits added because of his help in the musical arrangement. He was also the one with a crowbar meesloeg on the beat to let the beat more powerfully come. The song was released on the label Gordy, a sub-label of Berry Gordy 's Motown empire.

The text of Dancing in the Street is about the ability of any city to have a good time by dancing. It was produced as a harmless dance single, but during the riots in the inner cities of the United States were adopted African-American demonstrators soon as anthem for the civil rights movement . However, this different radio stations pulled the song from the airwaves because the leaders such as H. Rap Brown, the number used in the riots. This is seen as an explanation why Dancing In The Street just no number 1 hit.

The B-side of Dancing in the Street was an old song from 1961, There He Is (At My Door), written by Eddie Holland and Freddie Gorman (member of The Originals ).Originally it was the A-side of a single by The Vells, such as The Vandellas were called then, which was not hit. This song was in 1964 part of the album Dance Party.

Occupation

 * Lead: Martha Reeves
 * Background: Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers with
 * James Jamerson on bass
 * Benny Benjamin and Steve Reid on drums
 * Jack Ashford and Ivy Jo Hunter on percussion
 * Robert White , Eddie Willis and Joe Messina on guitar
 * Henry Cosby and Thomas Bowles on saxophone
 * Russ Conway and Herbert Williams on trumpet
 * George Bohannon and Paul Riser on trombone
 * Writers: Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson & Ivy Jo Hunter
 * Production: William Stevenson & Ivy Jo Hunter

Cover Versions
"Dancing in the Street" is often retreaded. The most successful re-recording of the song was released in the 80's was David Bowie who along with Mick Jagger released a rock version single. Initially, the two would be the song live during Live Aid sing, but because it was via satellite, namely the one was in London and another in Philadelphia, there would be a delay. Bowie because neither Jagger wanted miming, they decided to record the song in the studio. It was with great success, for their edition of "Dancing in the Street" became an international hit. In many countries reached the top 40 and in the UK, Australia, Netherlands and Ireland even the first position.

Also, many other artists' Dancing In The Street "included. Among them are The Mamas & The Papas , The Carpenters , Dusty Springfield , The Who , Human Nature , Van Halen , Nikki Webster , Atomic Kitten , The Kinks , Myra and Tim Curry . Colleagues at Motown gave a new version of the song. Thus was Choker Campbell an instrumental version of the song out with his big band. He did the same with two other songs of Martha & The Vandellas, namely " (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave "and" Wild One ".

Occupation

 * Lead: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
 * Background: Helena Springs and Tessa Niles
 * Guitar: Kevin Armstrong , GE Smith and Earl Slick
 * Bass: Matthew Seligman and John Regan
 * Drums: Neil Conti
 * Percussion: Pedro Ortiz and Jimmy Maclean
 * Trumpet: Mac Gollehon
 * Saxophone: Stan Harrison and Lenny Pickett
 * Keyboards: Steve Nieve
 * Production: Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer

Hitnoteringen

 * Dutch Top 40
 * Dutch Single Top 100
 * Radio 2 Top 2000

Alain Clark & Ben Saunders
Even Alain Clark and Ben Saunders have incorporated Dancing in the Street. After they had first sung in The Voice of Holland came the song as download up in the DutchSingle Top 100 .

Hitnotering

 * Dutch Single Top 100