Rocker's Revenge

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Walking on Sunshine
  UK 4th 
silver
silver
08/14/1982 (14 weeks)
The Harder They Come
  UK 30th 01/29/1983 (7 weeks)

Rockers Revenge was a New York studio project of R & B - and House - producer Arthur Baker belonged to the later addition Donnie Calvin, Dwight Hawkes and Bakers Wife Tina B.

background

Between 1982 and 1990 there were various single releases . The song Walking on Sunshine , the original of which is by Eddy Grant from 1978, became the biggest hit in 1982 and rose to number 1 on the Billboard Dance Music / Club Play Singles and number 4 on the UK charts . In the UK, the song achieved silver status .

With The Harder They Come , a cover version of the Jimmy Cliff hit from 1972, a second and final chart hit followed in 1983. This time it was in the US dance charts for number 13 and in England for number 30. In 1999, a mashup of Pete Hellers Big Love and Rockers Revenges Walking on Sunshine , which was released as a white label , was created.

Discography

Singles

  • 1982: Sunshine Partytime (feat. Donnie Calvin)
  • 1982: Walking on Sunshine (feat. Donnie Calvin)
  • 1983: The Harder They Come (feat.Donnie Calvin)
  • 1983: There Goes My Heart (feat.Donnie Calvin)
  • 1984: Living for the Weekend (Let's Work) (feat.Donnie Calvin and Adrienne Johnson)
  • 1999: Sunshine Love (Pete Heller vs. Rockers Revenge) (White Label)

literature

swell

  1. ↑ Chart data UK
  2. ↑ Gold / platinum database UK

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