Coolio background song?

[tonetone]

Hello all...can anyone help me, i`m trying to find out the name of a song coolio used for his song 1,2,3,4 get your bottom on the floor..gotta gotta get up and get down. It was sung by a person with an english accent and was sampling disco songs and he was qoting sum disco pharses like wanna rock you and shake your stuff, boogie nights where it`s all right wanna ring my bell it`s out of sight..and ..uh don`t remember the rest.. :lol: . can any of my fellow discoites help me...thank you...tone:)[/b]

[Forrrce]

It's 'Wikka Rap' by The Evasions, a British novelty hit from 1981 that was based on Tom Browne's 'Thighs High' and 'Funkin' For Jamaica', with Chic, Brothers Johnson & Parliament references thrown in to boot.

It came out here on Groove Records, which was a Soho import shop - and got a re-edit and issue in the US, courtesy of Jonathan Fearing (great boardsman - whatever happened to him?) and Sam Records.

The (very good) vocal impersonation was of Alan Wicker, a suave, idosyncratic and very lucky presenter who travelled around the planet throughout the '70s for his long-running TV show, 'Wicker's World'.

Though it was a pisstake, the Evasions record was pretty funky - and they followed it up with a less successful pastiche of Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message', called 'Jock's Rap (The Passage)' which was rapped in Scottish. :roll:

[maarten]

Totally agree with Forrce. The 12" can be found on the "Nervous Does Disco volume 1" CD (1995). Which is an excellent series anyway!