ダンスは済んだ? (7)

2014/10/03
ニューヨークの地下鉄車内からダンスパフォーマンスが消えつつある。
 若者文化の一つとして許容されてきたが、警察が取り締まりを強化し、逮捕者が続出しているためだ。毎日通勤で乗るニューヨーカーの多くは歓迎する一方、ダンサーや旅行者からは「ニューヨークらしさが失われる」と惜しむ声も上がる。
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20141003-00050013-yom-int

安全を考えれば仕方ないだろうね。

 

Michael Sembello – Maniac(Vocal)(1983/05 stereo 45 single version)
マイケル・センベロ – マニアック
CIC配給パラマウント映画「フラッシュダンス」オリジナル・サウンドトラック盤
ハトロン紙を叩くようなシンセドラム音がいかにも当時風。

produced by Phil Ramone & Michael Sembello
Pop Chart Peaks: Billboard 1, Cash Box 3 – A/C Peak: 34 – UK Peak: 43 (Gallup)
See the song’s Wikipedia page for details on its interesting creation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(Michael_Sembello_song) Featured in the the 1983 box office hit “Flashdance” (slightly shorter soundtrack LP version, “Maniac” also appeared in Michael’s own album “Bossa Nova Hotel” and in this extended 12″ remix

Michael Sembello – Maniac(Vocal)(album version)
マイケル・センベロ – マニアック
from the album Various “Flashdance(Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)”(1983)フラッシュダンス
Time:4:12

Michael Sembello – Maniac(Vocal)(12″ re-mix version)

 

<参考>
“Weird Al” Yankovic – The Brady Bunch
from the album “In 3-D”(1984)
Men Without Hats “The Safety Dance”(セーフティ・ダンス)(Canada:1982)のパロディ。
歌詞はテレビの人気ドラマの影響を揶揄する内容。
2度目の引用。

Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance(Canada:1982, US:1983/06 stereo 45 single version)
メン・ウィズアウト・ハッツ – セーフティ・ダンス
ダンスを例に「規制」と「行動の自由」について歌っているらしい。

produced by Marc Durand
Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box 1, Billboard 3 – UK Peak: 5 (NME)
From their LP “Rhythm Of Youth,” this debut international hit by the Canadian new wave band was also issued in an extended dance mix: And….there was the Weird Al parody “The Brady Bunch”

Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance(Extended’Club Mix’)(Canada:1982)

 

Bette Midler – Do You Want To Dance?(1972/11 stereo 45)
同工のリメイク James Taylor “Handy Man”(1977/06)が連想された。

produced by Joel Dorn
(debuted late’72) 1973 Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box 13, Record World 15, Billboard 17 – A/C Peak: 8
Bette’s very first national hit was this sultry treatment of Bobby Freeman’s memorable 1958 rocker, but she was not the first to record the tune as a ballad. Here’s the Mamas & The Papas’ 1966 LP version (issued as a single in 1968)

Bette Midler – Do You Want To Dance?(1973 mono radio promo 45)

backing vocals by Cissy Houston and Tender Loving Care
piano by Barry Manilow
arranged by Thom Bell & Barry Manilow
produced by Joel Dorn
(debuted late’72) 1973 Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box 13, Record World 15, Billboard 17 – A/C Peak: 8
Bette’s very first national hit was this sultry treatment of Bobby Freeman’s memorable 1958 rocker, but she was not the first to record the tune as a ballad. Here’s the Mamas & The Papas’ 1966 LP version (issued as a single in 1968)

The Mamas & The Papas – Do You Wanna Dance(1968/11 mono 45)
ママス・アンド・パパス – 踊ろよ, ベイビー
Mama Cass With The Mamas & The Papas – Do You Wanna Dance(1968/06/10)
from the album “If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears”(1966)夢のカリフォルニア

produced by Lou Adler
1968 Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box & Record World 43, Billboard 76
Originally titled “Do You Want To Dance” and previously charted as a rocker by Bobby Freeman, Del Shannon, and The Beach Boys, this slowed-down arrangement had first appeared as a track on the M&Ps early-1966 debut LP “If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears” but wasn’t issued as a single until more than two years later.

The Beach Boys – Do You Wanna Dance?(1965/02/15)
ビーチ・ボーイズ – 踊ろよ、ベイビー
from the album “The Beach Boys Today!”(1965)ビーチ・ボーイズ・トゥデイ

Bobby Freeman – Do You Want To Dance(1958/03)

Rocker was a top-5 charted hit for Bobby and would later be revived by a number of artists, most successfully by The Beach Boys.

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Bataan – When You’re Down(Funky Mambo)(1974)

Brian Withers – Do The Cling(1965)

Kathy Kirby – Dance On(1963)

Mike Roger – Let’s Slop(1962)

Frank Gari – She Make Me Wanna Dance(1962)
よくある『ラ・バンバ』タイプ

Tito Martinez – Watusi Way

Roy Hamilton – She Make Me Wanna Dance

The Raging Storms – The Dribble(Twist)(1961)

The Isley Brothers – The Drag(1958)

Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra – Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga(1940)
vocal: Helen O’Connell

Isham Jones – Square Dance(1934)
vocal: Eddie Stone

 

 

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