Boogie Friday

Change weren't much more than a studio group formed by two Italian producers but some of the greatest dance music ever has been made by faceless Eurotrash. As Giorgio Moroder had done with Donna Summer their masterstroke was recruiting soulful vocal talent for their cold studio creations, in their case that meant roping in Luther Vandross and Jocelyn Brown to sing on their first album. Luther at the time was pretty much an unknown, making a living singing jingles and if he was known for anything it was for providing backing vocals and co-writing a track on David Bowie's "Young Americans" album. "Searching" was released in 1980 and sort of sits on the cusp of the tail-end of disco and the beginning of 80s-style dance music, Change were heavily-influenced by Chic but there's a more glitchy, electronic sound to the music that points the way to the future. It's a great song that I imagine would sound great no matter who was singing it but - Lordy Lordy - Luther's vocal is very special indeed, pouring sweet and warm hot chocolate all over the cold Euro-funk. Pretty amazing when you consider that the backing track was recorded in Bologna and the vocals in New York. This track (and "The Glow of Love") turned out to be pretty good adverts for Luther as a year later he recorded his first solo smash "Never Too Much" and went on to become huge (in more ways than one.)

If you held a gun to my head and forced me to pick my all-time favourite club tunes this one would definately be in the top 3 somewhere. But hopefuly you're not the sort of person who would hold a gun to my head just to find out what I like dancing to.

This is another long track (8 minutes!) but I swear I wouldn't mind if this went on for hours and hours.

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Searching - Change