Club house

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Do It Again / Billie Jean (Medley)
  DE 41 09/05/1983 (8 weeks)
  UK 11 07/23/1983 (6 weeks)
  US 75 08/20/1983 (5 weeks)
Superstition / Good Times
  UK 59 December 3rd, 1983 (3 weeks)
I'm a Man / Ye Ke Ye Ke
  UK 69 07/01/1989 (3 weeks)
Deep in My Heart
  UK 55 04/20/1991 (4 weeks)
Light My Fire (feat.Carl)
  UK 45 09/04/1993 (13 weeks)
Light My Fire {Re-Release} (feat. Carl)
  UK 7th 04/30/1994 (9 weeks)
Living in the Sunshine (feat. Carl)
  UK 21st 07/23/1994 (3 weeks)
Nowhere Land (feat. Carl)
  IT 4th 11/1995 (13 weeks)
  UK 56 03/11/1995 (2 weeks)

Club House , also known as Clubhouse , is an Italian dance project that has appeared in changing line-ups since the early 1980s. Well-known protagonists included Carl Fanini, Gianfranco Bortolotti and Silvio Pozzoli . The most successful singles were Do It Again / Billie Jean (1983) and Light My Fire (1993).

Band history

In the early 1980s, the Italian record company Media Records created the Club House studio project. Many different DJs and musicians were to publish records and CDs under this name over the next few years .

From the titles of Do It Again by Steely Dan , a US - top 10 - hit in 1972, and Billie Jean , the worldwide number-one hit from Michael Jackson was born, 1983, a danceable medley , the # 11 in the UK charts , Reached 41st place in Germany and 75th place on the Billboard Hot 100 . The successor single was produced with the same musicians, including by La Bionda . The medley of Stevie Wonders Superstition , which was number 1 in the USA in 1972 , and Chics Good Times , Top 10 in the United States and Great Britain in 1979 , placed 59th on the British charts .

I'm a Man , originally a song by the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 , and Yeke Yeke by Mory Kanté , a number 2 in Germany, were recorded as a dance track by Club House in 1988 and secured their return to the British charts at number 69 Up until 1993, other singles came onto the market, of which only Deep in My Heart was listed (1991, UK number 55). In the US, the song became a big club hit and rose to number 1 on the dance charts.

In 1993 Gianfranco Bortolotti, who was known for Cappella , produced the studio project and recorded new singles with Carl Fanini, the New York- born ex-singer of East Side Beat . As Club House feat. With Light My Fire, Carl made it into the English top ten in 1994. The tracks Living in the Sunshine and Nowhere Land , which is based on a composition by Klaus Doldinger , hit the charts again in the UK in 1994 and 1995. The last single so far is the 2006 cover version of the Coldplay hit Speed ​​of Sound .

Discography

Singles and EPs

  • 1983: Do It Again / Billie Jean
  • 1983: Superstition / Good Times
  • 1988: I'm a Man / Yeke Yeke
  • 1989: I'm Alone
  • 1991: Deep in My Heart
  • 1992: Take Your Time
  • 1992: I'm Falling Too
  • 1993: Light My Fire (feat.Carl)
  • 1994: Nowhere Land (feat.Carl)
  • 1994: Living in the Sunshine (feat.Carl)
  • 1995: You and I (feat.Carl)
  • 1995: All by Myself (feat.Carl)
  • 1996: Endless Love (feat.Carl)
  • 1996: Remixes 96 (feat.Carl)
  • 1996: Don't Stand so Close to Me
  • 1998: So Nice
  • 2006: Speed ​​of Sound
  • 2006: 2K6 EP

Albums

  • 1994: Living in the Sunshine
  • 1995: Nowhere Land ( ZYX Music )

literature

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  1. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on August 19, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access).
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE, US UK

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