C + C Music Factory

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C + C Music Factory was a dance music project that had a worldwide hit with Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) in 1990. The acronym "C + C" in the name stands for the surnames of the two producers Robert C livillés and David B. C ole, who founded the project in 1989 and signed the singers.

history

The first album Gonna Make You Sweat was recorded in 1990. Through the voice of the rapper Freedom Williams , the two producers Clivillés and Cole managed to fuse hip-hop and club sound, which made the album a success. The three hit singles Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) , Here We Go and Things That Make You Go Hmmmm ... were at the top of the charts worldwide in 1991. After this success, Freedom Williams left the project to pursue an unsuccessful solo career start. Clivillés and Cole released their greatest remixes by other artists (including Pride by the Irish rock band U2 ). They released their second album in the summer of 1994 under the title Anything Goes! , which was not as successful as its predecessor, because a real hit single was missing. This was the last album of the two, as David B. Cole died on January 24, 1995 of meningitis .

Members

  • Robert Clivillés (producer)
    • Robert Manuel Clivillés (born August 30, 1964 in New York ) is of Puerto Rican descent.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1990 Gonna make you sweat DE30 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH13 (12 weeks)
CH 		UK8th
gold
gold

(13 weeks)UK 		US2
Quintuple platinum
× 5
Quintuple platinum

(85 weeks)US
First published: December 18, 1990
1994 Anything Goes! - - CH46 (2 weeks)
CH 		- US106 (9 weeks)
US
First published: August 9, 1994
1995 C + C Music Factory - - - - -
First published: December 5, 1995

Remix albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1992 Greatest Remixes Volume 1 - - - UK45 (1 week)
UK 		US87 (9 weeks)
US
First published: February 11, 1992
as Clivilles + Cole

Singles (chart successes)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks [↑]: treated together with the previous entry;
[←]: placed in both charts
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1990 Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
Gonna Make You Sweat 		DE1 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT1 (13 weeks)
AT 		CH1 (17 weeks)
CH 		UK3 (12 weeks)
UK 		US1
platinum
platinum

(25 weeks)US
First release: November 1990
feat. Freedom Williams
1991 Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)
Gonna Make You Sweat 		DE14 (12 weeks)
DE 		AT24 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH11 (11 weeks)
CH 		UK20 (7 weeks)
UK 		US3
gold
gold

(20 weeks)US
First publication: March 1991
pres. Freedom Williams & Zelma Davis
Things That Make You Go Hmmm ...
Gonna Make You Sweat 		DE27 (12 weeks)
DE 		- CH15 (10 weeks)
CH 		UK4 (11 weeks)
UK 		US4th
gold
gold

(16 weeks)US
First release: June 1991
feat. Freedom Williams
Just a Touch of Love (Every Day)
Gonna Make You Sweat 		- - CH21 (1 week)
CH 		UK31 (3 weeks)
UK 		US50 (14 weeks)
US
First release: October 1991
feat. Zelma Davis
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Greatest Remixes Volume 1 		- - CH27 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK15 (5 weeks)
UK 		US44 (17 weeks)
US
First published: December 1991
1992 A Deeper Love
Greatest Remixes Volume 1 		DE35 (12 weeks)
DE 		- -[UK: ↑][US: ↑]
First published: February 1992
Keep It Comin '(Dance Till You Can't Dance No More)
Buffy - The Vampire Killer (OST) 		- - - UK34 (1 week)
UK 		US83 (6 weeks)
US
First release: July 1992
feat. Deborah Cooper & Q-Unique
1994 Do You Wanna Get Funky
Anything Goes! 		DE41 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - UK27 (3 weeks)
UK 		US40 (20 weeks)
US
First published: July 1994
Take a Toke
Anything Goes! 		DE88 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - UK26 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: December 1994
1995 I Found Love
Anything Goes! 		- - -[UK: ↑] -
First published: February 1995
I'll Always Be Around
C + C Music Factory 		- - - UK42 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 1995

Working as a remixer and producer for third parties

Clivillés and Cole also made a name for themselves as remixers of other artists and were in great demand in the early 1990s:

Mariah Carey worked extensively with Clivillés & Cole. She had songs written by them and remixes of their hit singles made. The singer Deborah Cooper, who was under contract with C + C Music Factory, appeared on many CDs and also toured as a background singer with Mariah Carey.

useful information

  • C + C Music Factory has won 35 music awards worldwide, including five Billboard Awards, five American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Grammy nomination (for best newbie).
  • In 2006 Bob Sinclar released the single Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) with numerous samples from C + C Music Factory.
  • C + C Music Factory is “Borat” Sacha Baron Cohen's favorite band .
  • In 1991 the band made a guest appearance in the episode "A babysitter to kiss" of the series Blossom .
  • 1992 saw the release of the video game Power Factory Featuring C + C Music Factory with which the Make My Video game series was founded.

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 US
  2. ↑ a b The Billboard album by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

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