Platinum Record [Level 8]
Did you like house music when it first came out?
I think the earliest songs I remember were "Jack Your Body","Do It Properly" and "You Used To Hold Me". They were all played on a local urban radio station.
Chart Hit [Level 6]
I was still DJ-ing. I remember playing
Coldcut - Doctoring the house
Deskee - Let there be house
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - eehmmm... forgot
Rick & Lisa - When you gonna
There were many more, but these I remember. Just FYI - these are NOT, I repeat NOT, my favorite house tracks, just the first ones that I was aware of that kicked off the 'genre'.
"ON THE BEAT" at http://littlemacho.tripod.com/
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
Well, I consider these 2 songs the first in the house genre. "I'm Ready" and "Planet Rock."
Find them and destroy them!
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
I guess it was Yazz and the Plastic Population song "The Only Way is Up" the first house track I've ever heard.
Have a Disco Life.
Indie Release [Level 4]
Love Can't Turn Around with Darryl Pandy's divine vocals was my first favourite...
Acetate [Level 1]
Silk with Jack Your Body was my first(well that's on a day i'm not trying to convince myself it was realy Boris Midney that invented house)just heard it on tyhe soundsystem of a shop and i was like "what was that track again?)
most important for me was the day i bought Phuture - Acid Trax on 12"
e,r
Underground Hit [Level 5]
The house record that stands out for me at the beginning, 'Devotion' by Ten City; Classic! Also, right around the same time, 'Move your Body' by Marshall Jefferson; The anthem what else can be said.
Easy,
Sam "ALL JAM"
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Dear Friends!
It was about 1988 and I went really crazy
about the AcidHouse and NewBeat...
S´EXPRESS, BABY FORD, YAZZ, COLDCUT, BOMB
THE BASS, MARSHALL JEFFERSON, DARYL PANDY,
FINGERS INC.
I thought it´s a new kind of DiscoRevival
without HI-NRG, and there is a kind of
new HippieGeneration comin´on...
1)S´EXPRESS"Hey Music Lover"(12"/Spatial
Remix)
2)BABY FORD"Children Of The Revolution"
3)DARYL PANDY"Love Can´t Turn Around"
4)FINGERS INC."Can You Feel It"
5)JULIAN JUMPIN PEREZ"Jack Me Till I Start
To Scream"
6)A GUY CALLED GERALD"Voodoo Ray"
7)LIZ TORRES"Mind Games"
Who made "House Nation"???
9)YAZZ"Stand Up For Your Love Rights"
10)CHANTAL"The Realm"
And so many more...
Later DEEE-LITE and CRYSTAL WATERS appeared..
BLACK BOX was only another ItaloHype with
the voices of Loleatta Holloway and Martha
Wash... ooh, I forgot INNER CITY!!!
To be continued?
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES
Test Pressing [Level 2]
The house song that I remember most, that really sticks in my mind, is "Move Your Body" by Marshall Jefferson. I actually love "No Way Out" by Adonis as well. Those are my top 2 memory house tracks. I remember hearing those so often back in the day on WBLS here in NY. Memoriessssss lol
Chart Hit [Level 6]
That would be "Love can't turn around"Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - eehmmm... forgot
Been wondering for years but never asked, does anyone know the story behind "Jack" in house music ?
Just a very few fav house music from 1988:
House Master Boyz - House Nation (for Sirius)
Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up (Escape to NewYork mix)
Rhythm is rhythm - Nude photo
2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman & a Dominican - Do it properly
Natalie Cole - Pink Cadillac (extended house version)
Krush - House arrest
Kenny 'Jammin' Jason - Can u dance (bonus Jack)
Jack 'N' Chill - The Jack that house built
Bananarama - I heard a rumour (The House mix)
Adonis - No way back
Depeche Mode - Behind the wheel (Shep Pettibone mix)
Jack E. Makossa - The Opera house
Kenny Jason - Don't want it
M.Doc - It's percussion
Mickey Oliver - In-ten-si-t
Nitzer Ebb - Join in the chant
Rickster - Night moves
Ralphi Rosario - I want you
Hithouse - Jack to the sound of the underground
Madonna - Causing a commotion (house mix)
Black Jack - Black Ink Mix (this is my all time fav house!!!)
2men a drum machine and a trumpet - I'm tired of getting pushed around
Adonis - Lost in sound
Godley & creme - Snack attack
Groove (Dancing and music) - Music please (remix)
Ex-sample - And so it goes
Supertramp (yes Supertramp) - Im beggin' you (madhouse mix)
Noise boyz - No way back
Blue Mercedez - I want to be your property
"Not everyone understand house music, it's spiritual thing, a soul thing, House music will never die!"
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Platinum Record [Level 8]
Blue Mercedez - I want to be your property
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"I want to live like Cyd Charisse, in a great big house by the sea."
Gold Record [Level 7]
though not the first house records early favourites of mine include TEN CITY THATS THE WAY LOVE IS/RIGHT BACK TO YOU/MY PIECE OF HEAVEN/ONLY TIME WILL TELL and as SAMMY said DEVOTION for me they could do no wrong,others LENNY D&TOMMY MUSTO EVERYTHING BAMBOO, RITCIERICH SALSA HOUSE and a funny one that came out of the rivalry/war between chicago labels d.j.international&trax,trax taking the piss out of d.j.internationals owner rocky jones BORIS BADENUFF HEY ROCKY [d.j.international did reply with "you stole my baseline"!] i always thougt that was a great way to have a war through music!!!!!!
FARLEY JACKMASTER LOVE CANT TURN AROUND was number 10 pop in england who could ever forget darryl pandy on top of the pops he wailed screamed threw himself on the floor rolled around picked himself up sweated and rolled around some more BRILLIANT![have you seen that one FUNKY?]
Acetate [Level 1]
Just some thoughts...first, Sirius, the awesome "House Nation" is by The Housemaster Boyz, I think. Next - first house track I remember is "Pump Up The Volume" by M/A/R/R/S, although I remember listening to "Voodoo Ray" a lot more at the time.
I love the early house sound, "Good Life" is an all time favourite, I guess there's just something kind of funky about crappy old drum machines and basslines (and if there's vocals, so much the better). I think that house and techno have always been more overground in the UK - club hits always cross over into the mainstream charts, which I believe doesn't happen so much in the States.
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
"You Used To Hold Me" is one of those tracks that is always being recycled and reborn. I remember dancing to it around 1991... a year or so later, a different version came out... and then another... and then one day I learned that the version that I thought was the "original" was, in fact, a total reconstruction, and the track was way older than that...On 2002-07-30 19:41, nrgbeat wrote:
I think the earliest songs I remember were "Jack Your Body","Do It Properly" and "You Used To Hold Me".
Underground Hit [Level 5]
"I want to live like Cyd Charisse, in a great big house by the sea."On 2002-07-31 21:53, nrgbeat wrote:
Blue Mercedez - I want to be your property
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I'm surprised this song was mentioned. Good song. An import single that I picked up back in the days.
Keep the faith and everything will come your way as time marches on!
Underground Hit [Level 5]
Farley Jackmaster Funk 'Love Can't Turn Around'.... 1986 I think.
Womb Prayer!
No Longer Charting
House definitely started in '86 and here'e a few of the early ones for me.
RAZE - JACK THE GROOVE
RAZE - LET THE MUSIC MOVE YOU
CLEAVAGE - BARAH (one of my faves)
PRIVATE POSSESSION - THIS TIME (Garage or House, I don't think the lines of demarkation had been firmly drawn at this time?)
SADIE NINE - LET'S WORK IT OUT (not true house, but had lots of elements for me)
J M SILK - LET THE MUSIC TAKE CONTROL
HOME WRECKERS - JACKIN'
THE INCREDIBLE MR. FREEZE - BACK TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
RAWW - DON'T YOU TRY IT - (had some elements)
WALLY JUMP JUNIOR and the CRIMINAL ELEMENT - JUMP BACK
NITRO DELUXE - THIS BRUTAL HOUSE.
There's others that I don't have to hand.
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Hey,
what about "A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME" by Luther Vandross? :lol:
zeca azevedo, always writing silly things
Triple Platinum Record [Level 10]
My first "house" song?
Well, I guess it was either Rosemary Clooney's "This Old House" or "Come-on-a My House". :lol: We're talking the 1950's here, kidz. ......
Several decades before Luther Vandross, Zeca. (But , thanks for letting me steal from your "idea")........ Actually, "A House Is Not A Home" was from a circa 1964 film of the same name starring Shelley Winters as "Madam" Polly Adler. It was about a brothel, kidz. Brook Benton actually sang the song in the film; Bacharach/David's main pet protege, Miss Dionne Warwick recorded it shortly thereafter.
Yeah, I'm an old bag of gas. :roll:
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
Gold Record [Level 7]
I don't really remember the first "house" song. Just wanted to tell you tomorrow night there's a big Creamfields feast here in Buenos Aires. Due to the crisis there's not so many & big international names, but seems pretty nice anyway (I'm not going: the ticket is pretty expensive). One of the stars is DJ Frankie Knuckles, dubbed here in the press as the starter or "father" of house music, due to his work in a Chicago club called The Warehouse, if I remember well...
Would you subscribe this statement?
It don't mean a thing (if ain't got that swing)
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Hey Marky,Originally Written by markydefad
ssshhhh, I'm trying to hide my age here :roll: I'm too young to remember 50's songs :lol: :lol: :lol:
zeca azevedo, ageing without grace and elegance :lol:
Indie Release [Level 4]
Well, my personal opinion about what made the transition between Disco/Funk/electro and what in the future was going to have a major impact in the Dance music world under the name of "house" were tracks like "Trapped" by Colonel Abrahams (1985), the use of the synth, the use of rolling snare, the incessant hi hats,and the "four to the floor" tempo, were all elements that were going to be characteristic of the future (and so-called official) chicago House track like "Jack your body" by JM Silk and "Love can't turn around" by Farley Jackmaster Funk.
\"..There\'s a time for work and time for play,
Let\'s get it straight....\"
ROB
Underground Hit [Level 5]
As I stated on here awhile back, the first House Record that my parents bought me was Jody Miller's "Queen of The House."
Actually, I liked a few of the songs mentioned above...maybe about 4 or 5 of them total....(I'm Ready;" "Blue Mercedes" "Good Life," and "Trapped." (very Teddy P).....when I first heard the term House...i ran for the Garage...and then ran for the Basement Tapes and now I am awaiting for Attic music to hit these shores....
honestly....most of these musical styles :roll: do nothing for me and that is all I have to say on the subject.
btw, the song mentioned, "You Used To Hold Me" was that the one by Thelma Houston? or was hers' "You Used To Hold Me So Tight?" (TH one I liked.)
I Believe In The Boogie, But Lovin\' Is Really My Game.
Indie Release [Level 4]
HEW!! We're running too fast!! "You used to Hold me" was a hit for Thelma Houston in 1984, the above mentioned "You used to Hold me" is a classic House Anthem by Ralphi Rosario featuring Xaviera Gold (one of the most sampled acapella EVER) originally released on the Chicago Indipendent label Hot Mix 5 in 1987.
\"..There\'s a time for work and time for play,
Let\'s get it straight....\"
ROB
Test Pressing [Level 2]
The first two House trax I heard were Wired-To the beat
of the drum and M.T.R-The walk. In 1985.
They were on a tape I've got from a local radio station.
At first I did'nt know it was House music,because I've
never heard of it.And it took me a while to get used to it because it was so minimal and I missed the melodies I was used to hear in my Disco and Italo records.
That ''Wired-To the beat of the drum'' is still one of my alltime favorite House trax.
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