“Everybody, Everybody” by Black Box

Italian house outfit Black Box pulled "Everybody Everybody" off their 1990 debut album Dreamland as its third single, on RCA, and it's a gleaming slab of house, pop and Eurodisco stacked with organ, drums, horns and strings. Daniele Davoli, Mirko Limoni and Valerio Semplici wrote it and Groove Groove Melody produced it, building the groove on borrowed parts: a drum loop and a snatch of Larry Blackmon's voice lifted from Bobby Byrd's 1987 remix of James Brown's "Hot Pants".

The big voice out front belongs to American singer Martha Wash, who got no credit for it; French model Katrin Quinol was presented as the singer, turned up with the group in public and lip-synched the video in a unitard. Critics went for the production and the vocals, and in America the record climbed to number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.

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