Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Tina Turner

Anna Mae Bullock Tina Turner is an American born (Nov 26) singer, actress and author, often referred to as the "Queen of Rock n Roll". During the 1990s, she possibly best known for singing the theme tune for "Goldeneye". Her biggest UK hit was the duet with Rod Stewart on the cover of Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston's "It takes two". Another top 10 was for "I don't wanna fight", which was on the soundtrack for her autobiographical film, "What's love got to do with it"

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1990   13	Steamy Windows
Aug 1990   31	Look Me In The Heart
Oct 1990   28	Be Tender With Me Baby
Nov 1990    5	It Takes Two (with Rod Stewart)
Sep 1991   23	Nutbush City Limits
Nov 1991   13	Way Of The World
Feb 1992   29	Love Thing
Jun 1992   22	I Want You Near Me
May 1993    7	I Don't Wanna Fight
Aug 1993   12	Disco Inferno
Oct 1993   16	Why Must We Wait Until Tonight
Nov 1995   10	Goldeneye
Mar 1996   23	Whatever You Want
Jun 1996   13	On Silent Wings
Jul 1996   12	Missing You
Oct 1996   27	Something Beautiful Remains
Dec 1996   32	In Your Wildest Dreams (featuring Barry White)
Oct 1999   10	When The Heartache Is Over

What happened next?
Tina Turner's last studio album was "Love Songs" in 2014 and she has retired from tours. However, she put together the musical, "Tina" based on her life story with help from Phyllida Lloyd and that opened in London in 2018 with Adrienne Warren in the lead role. Tina Turner came out of retirement in July 2020 to collaborate with Norwegian producer Kygo on a remix of "What's Love Got to Do with It". With the release, she became the first artist to have a top 40 hit in seven consecutive decades in the UK when it peaked at #31. In 2021, Turner appeared in the documentary film "Tina" directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin.

Monday, 29 November 2021

Tina Moore

Tina Moore is an American born (Oct 17) singer. She scored two Top 20 hit singles in the UK in 1997 with "Never Gonna Let You Go" and "Nobody Better". Both singles were UK garage remixes of songs from her 1995 album Tina Moore. "Never gonna let you go" also spent 1 week at #1 on UK Dance Chart in August 1997.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1997    7	Never Gonna Let You Go
Apr 1998   20	Nobody Better

What happened next?
Tina Moore released two further albums, "All in my vibe" (1999) and "Time will tell" (2002).

Sunday, 28 November 2021

The People Movers

The People Movers was project created by Greg Zwarich, Paul Mintsoulis and Michael Scroccaro (Mr Happy). Zwarich and Mintsoulis were also known as The Stickmen and had their own label StickMan Records. They are best known for the house song "C-Lime Woman", which bizarrely a cover of sorts of Nina Simone's "See Line Woman".

What happened next?
Zwarich and Mintsoulis from The People Movers continued their work as The Stickmen and record label, Stickman Records, which was still producing tacks like Matteo DiMarr/Inaya Day's "My Life" in 2021.
This is where it gets a little confusing (hence why I delayed posting!) There are a couple of other Stickmen outfits. I don't believe they are the Irish one who have released songs like "Lullaby" and "Sunshine" in 2021.
I am not sure whether they are Stickmen Project who have produced some interesting lockdown mixes, including this one, which has a number of references to late 90s dance music (e.g. Strike's "U sure do", Perfecto's "Papa's got a brand new pig bag", Delirium's "Silence"...)

Saturday, 27 November 2021

Temperance

Temperance was a Canadian musical group that originally created Mark Ryan (H.A. Der-Hovagimian) and Lorraine Reid. They are best known for its 1996 cover of the Alphaville song "Forever Young". Mark Ryan left the project for a solo project as DerHova after the release of the first album, "Virtues of Life". Nick Fiorucci took over and "Hands of time" was #1 on Canada Dance Chart in September 1998.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	 CanDan	Song
Aug 1994    7	Music Is My Life
Nov 1995   16	Never Let You Go
Mar 1996   15	Let Me Take You Away
Jul 1996    8	Forever Young
Mar 1997   10	Lost in Love
Sep 1998    1	Hands of time
Feb 1999    5	Dancing in the key of love
Aug 1999   12	If you don't know
Dec 1999   19	Chains of love

What happened next?
DerHova moved Armenia, where composed the song "Qele Qele" for Sirusho, which was the country's entry in Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 (and finished 4th). In 2010, he produced Vladimir Arzumanyan's "Mama", which won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2010. Lorraine Reid's last album release was "Lessons learned" in 2008.

Friday, 26 November 2021

Technotronic

Technotronic was the creation of Belgian producer Thomas De Quincey (Jo Bogaert) who had previous projects with Nux Nemo and Acts Of Madmen. Founded in 1989, that immediate success with debut "Pump Up The Jam". Origins of that started as "Technotronic" for the outfit The Pro 4's and featured Eddie Murphy samples.
In the 1990s, they are best known for "Get up", which reached the top of the Canada Dance chart and UK#2 in 1990. This featured the vocal rap of Ya Kid K (Manuela Kamosi). She'd go on to feature on most Technotronic's hits from the debut album "Pump up the Jam". MC Eric (Eric martin) contributed the vocal rap for the follow-up "This Beat Is Technotronic." For the second studio album, "Body to Body", Ya Kid K had left to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Reggie (Rejane Magloire), which spawned a couple more semi-hits with "Move that body" and "Work" in 1991. In 1992, due in part to a Revlon advertising campaign, "Move this" from their first album was released and reached #5 on the US Billboard chart. Their third album, "Recall," was released 4 years later and fitted in the Eurodance parameters of the era. It featured the return of Ya Kid K on vocals and the inclusion of Daisy Dee (Daisy Rollocks) and Black Diamond (C Davis).

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1990    2	Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) (featuring Ya Kid K)
Apr 1990   14	This Beat Is Technotronic (featuring MC Eric)
Jul 1990    9	Rockin' Over The Beat (featuring Ya Kid K)
Oct 1990    6	Megamix
May 1991   12	Move That Body (featuring Reggie)
Aug 1991   40	Work (featuring Reggie)
Dec 1996   36	Pump Up The Jam (remix)

What happened next?
From 1999 to recent days, Technotronic recorded with Monday Midnite (Monday Osaigbovo Agbonze) and Ya Kid K. Many remixes of their old hits still entertain clubbers today.

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Tatjana

Tatjana Simic or just Tatjana is croatian born (Jun 9) dutch singer and actress. She is best known in eurodance circles for the song "Santa Maria" (reached #10 on Canada's Dance chart) in 1995. It scraped into the UK top 40. DJ Milano featuring Samantha Fox covered "Santa Maria" with what sounded like the backbeat to DJ Quicksilver (Belissima) song. That version reached #31 on the UK chart in March 1998.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Sep 1996   40	Santa Maria

What happened next?
Tatjana made a brief revival when she released the dutch song, "Ik Laat Je Gaan", which got to #11 in native Holland.

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Tasmin Archer

Tasmin Archer is an English born (Aug 3) singer who is best known for her international hit, "Sleeping Satellite" that spent 2 weeks at #1 in the UK in October 1992. Further hits followed from the successful album, "Great Expectations".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Sep 1992    1	Sleeping Satellite
Feb 1993   16	In Your Care
May 1993   26	Lords Of The New Church
Aug 1993   30	Arienne
Jan 1994   40	Shipbuilding

What happened next?
Tasmin Archer released an album, "On" in 2006. Kim Wilde covered the song "Sleeping Satellite" on her 2011 album of cover versions, "Snapshots."