Sunday, 25 June 2017

664 Hello Snap ! -The Power

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Chart  entered : 24  March  1990

Chart  peak : 1

Number  of  hits : 12

The  first  German  act to  feature  here for  a  while, Snap!  were essentially  a  duo  of  producers  Michael  Munzing  and  Luca  Anziloti  from  Frankfurt. They  started  out  as  a  sort  of  Teutonic Pet  Shop  Boys  called  16  Bit. They  enjoyed  a  big  hit  in  Germany  with  "Where  Are  You?" a  moody  synth-pop  chugger with  theatrical  vocals  rcalling  Yello. Their  other  singles  were  "Changing  Minds" a  Buggles-meets-KLF  stomper  and  "In  A Gadda Da Vida" which  you  suspect  is  a  cover  of  the  Boney  M  version  rather  than  Iron  Butterfly's  prog-rock  classic.

None  of  these  broke  out  internationally  so  the  duo  took  a  leaf  out  of  Coldcut's  book  and  became  a  production  duo  using  guest  vocalists  re-branded  as  Snap ! For  their  first  single  they  recuited rapper  Durron  "Turbo  B"  Butler, an  American  GI  stationed  in  Germany  who'd  previously  toured with The Fat  Boys. They   arranged  with Chaka  Khan  that  she'd  record  the  female  part  but  she  couldn't  make  the  session  and  recommended  one of  her  recent  backing  vocalists  Penny  Ford  for  the  task. Penny  was  an   experienced  singer  who'd  worked  with  The  Gap  Band, S.O.S. Band  and  Klymaxx  as  well  as  scoring  a  minor  solo  hit  ( number  43 ) with  the  robotic  electrodance  number "Dangerous"  in  1985.

They  were immediately  rewarded  with  an  international  smash. The  Popular  link  ishere


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