Gonna Make You Sweat by C+C Music Factory (CD, Dec-1990, Columbia)

Description: AllMusic Review by Jose F. Promis In the mid- to late '80s, house music took over dance floors across Europe and in larger American cities, namely Chicago. By 1990, several house music hits climbed the upper reaches of the U.S. pop charts, among those being Snap!'s "The Power," Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam," Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart," and Black Box's "Everybody Everybody," but C+C Music Factory took it all the way to number one in early 1991 (the very same week of the Gulf War) with their unstoppable "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)." The song incorporated dance, house, and hip-hop beats, wailing diva vocals (courtesy of Martha Wash), and rap (courtesy of Freedom Williams) to come up with one of the year's most exciting hits. Controversy ensued around that song's video when it was revealed that former Weather Girl Martha Wash sang the lead (as she did with Black Box's recordings), but it was Zelma Davis who lip-synced on video. Nonetheless, this controversy didn't hurt C+C Music Factory (or Black Box) because Zelma Davis proved herself a singer in her own right (although nowhere near Martha Wash), and sang on the rest of the album's tracks. "Gonna Make You Sweat"'s follow-up, the anthemic "Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll," became a Top Five smash, and melded house, hip-hop, and rock. Gonna Make You Sweat's third single, "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...," took a phrase popularized by Arsenio Hall and made it into another cleverly infectious Top Ten smash. The album's final single, "Just a Touch of Love," was a sleek, elegant, straight-up house jam sans rap, featuring Zelma Davis on vocals, but didn't become as big a hit as the others. Zelma offers up another anthemic house tune on "Live Happy." Other highlights include the ten-minute funky rap jam (à la DNA's remix of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner") "A Groove of Love" and the slinky "Ooh Baby," which features rare vocals courtesy of frontman David Cole. The act took several years (and a lineup change) before their follow-up, Anything Goes!, hit the shelves, but by then the magic had faded and American popular music had turned into grunge and gangsta rap. Tragically, David Cole died shortly thereafter. But when C+C Music Factory were hot, they were unstoppable, and this album captures them at their best, and, despite a couple of dull spots, stands as one of the definitive dance/pop albums of the 1990s. As an additional note, the album includes an eight-minute bonus house track. Gonna Make You Sweat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gonna Make You Sweat is the debut studio album by production group C+C Music Factory, released in the US on 13 December 1990. Following on the success of contemporaries Black Box and Technotronic, Gonna Make You Sweat was a worldwide smash, reaching number two on the US Billboard 200. The album's first single, "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," took most of the world by storm[citation needed], reaching number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in February 1991. The song also reached number one on Billboard's Top R&B Singles, Hot Dance Music/Club Play and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales as well as number three on the Australian ARIA Singles chart and UK Singles Chart. The song's opening line is frequently played during indoor sporting events as a way of maintaining enthusiasm among the spectators. The album's follow-up singles also performed well, including the second single, "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)" as well as the album's third release, "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...," both of which became top five entries on the Billboard Hot 100. Reception In a contemporary review, Select stated that "For every might tune like the title track, there's an over-long muddled 'What's This Word Called Love?" and "the producers knack of building indestructible House beat is matched only by their inconsistency".[3] The review concluded that the songs were over-long and have trouble sustaining interest."[3] Track listing All songs written by Robert Clivillés and Freedom Williams except where indicated. 1. "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" – 4:06 (featuring Martha Wash and Freedom Williams) 2. "Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll" – 5:42 (featuring Zelma Davis and Freedom Williams) 3. "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." – 5:23 (featuring Deborah Cooper and Freedom Williams) 4. "Just a Touch of Love (Everyday)" (Clivillés) – 5:38 (featuring Zelma Davis) 5. "A Groove of Love (What's This Word Called Love?)" – 10:00 (featuring Zelma Davis and Freedom Williams) 6. "Live Happy" (David Cole) – 7:22 (featuring Zelma Davis) 7. "Oooh Baby" (Cole) – 4:53 (featuring David Cole) 8. "Let's Get Funkee" (Cole) – 4:29 (featuring Zelma Davis) 9. "Givin' It to You" (Cole) – 4:52 (featuring David Cole) 10. "Bang That Beat" (Cole, Williams) – 5:35 (featuring Freedom Williams) 11. "Shade" – 8:17 (Unlisted track) Personnel · Deborah Cooper*, Zelma Davis*, Martha Wash*, Freedom Williams*, David Cole*, Karen Bernod, Craig Derry, Yolanda Lee, Duran Ramos, Norma Jean Wright – lead* & backing vocals · Robert Clivillés – keyboards, synthesizers, keyboard & synth programming, percussion, drum programming, backing vocals · David Cole – keyboards, backing vocals · Ricky Crespo – keyboards · Alan Friedman – keyboards, synthesizers, drums, percussion · Hugh McCracken – harmonica · Paul Pesco – guitars Production · Arranged and produced by David Cole, Robert Clivillés, Freedom Williams and Larry Yasga · Recorded and engineered by Rodney Ascue, Alec Head, Acar S. Key and Tony Maserati · Assistant engineers: Paul Berry, Bruce Calder, John Parthum, Steve Wellner · Mixed by Acar S. Key and Bob Rosa

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