What's the first house song you remember?

[nrgbeat]

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.

[maarten]

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'.

[paul]

Well, I consider these 2 songs the first in the house genre. "I'm Ready" and "Planet Rock."

[guille]

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.

[DeepBeat]

Love Can't Turn Around with Darryl Pandy's divine vocals was my first favourite...

[e,r]

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

[sammyperez]

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"

[sirius]

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

[AnthonyA1971]

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

[disco1999]

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - eehmmm... forgot

That would be "Love can't turn around"

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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[nrgbeat]

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."

[DISCODISK]

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?]

[jericho]

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.

[Graham_Start]

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".

"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...

[The Lord of Flatbush]

On 2002-07-31 21:53, nrgbeat wrote:
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."
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I'm surprised this song was mentioned. Good song. An import single that I picked up back in the days.