“Sing It Back” by Moloko

"Sing It Back" first surfaced in 1998 on I Am Not a Doctor, the second album from Moloko, the Irish-English duo of Róisín Murphy and Mark Brydon, who wrote it together. Murphy started on the lyric while out clubbing in New York City and knew it was a dance record at heart, but the pair dressed the album version in other clothes, and its first run as a single, in 1999, stalled at 45 in the UK.

So they went remix hunting. A Todd Terry mix left them cold, and they talked Echo into issuing Boris Dlugosch's version instead. That one hit number four in Britain that September, topped the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart and was folded onto their third album, Things to Make and Do. Murphy squared the debt by co-writing and appearing on Dlugosch's "Never Enough".

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