Do You Want to Dance
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"Do You Want to Dance" | ||||
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Single by Bobby Freeman | ||||
B-side | "Big Fat Woman" | |||
Released | 1958 | |||
Genre | Rock and roll | |||
Length | 2:30 | |||
Label | Josie | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bobby Freeman | |||
Bobby Freeman singles chronology | ||||
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"Do You Want to Dance" is a song written by American singer
A different song called "Do You Wanna Dance?" was a UK hit for Barry Blue in 1973.
Bobby Freeman version
The song was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).[6]
Cliff Richard and the Shadows version
"Do You Want to Dance" | ||||
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Columbia | ||||
Songwriter(s) | Bobby Freeman | |||
Producer(s) | Norrie Paramor | |||
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The
"Do You Want to Dance" went on to become the more successful charting track from the single in some countries, reaching number 1 in the Netherlands, Australia (based on the Sydney chart of the time, because an Australian nationwide chart had not yet started) and Flemish Belgium.[10][11][12] The single went on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide.[13]
"Do You Want to Dance" was included on the EP Cliff’s Hits, released November 1962, and first appeared on LP with Richard's first compilation album Cliff's Hit Album, released July 1963. A live version appeared on Richard's double album Japan Tour 74 issued in 1975.
Recording
"Do You Want to Dance" was recorded on December 19, 1961 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios. The session, engineered by Malcolm Addy and produced by EMI's A&R man Norrie Paramor, featured new drummer Brian Bennett and Jet Harris on bass, soon to leave the Shadows in 1962.[14]
Charts
Chart entries as "Do You Want to Dance" or "Do You Want to Dance"/"I'm Looking Out the Window":
Chart (1962) | Peak position |
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UK ( New Musical Express Chart)[9]
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10 |
Australia (Kent Music Report)[15] (retrospectively calculated chart position) |
3 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[16] | 4 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[17] | 9 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[18] | 1 |
Spain (Promusicae)[19] | 15 |
Sweden (Tio i Topp)[20] | 1 |
Chart entries as "I'm Looking Out the Window"/"Do You Want to Dance":
Chart (1962) | Peak position |
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2 | |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[22] | 9 |
Finland ( Suomen virallinen lista)[23]
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18 |
Ireland (IRMA)[24] | 2 |
Norway (VG-lista)[25] | 2 |
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[26] | 3 |
The Beach Boys version
"Do You Wanna Dance?" | ||||
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Single by the Beach Boys | ||||
from the album The Beach Boys Today! | ||||
B-side | "Please Let Me Wonder" | |||
Released | February 15, 1965 | |||
Recorded | January 11, 1965 | |||
Studio | Gold Star, Hollywood, California | |||
Genre | Rock and roll[27] | |||
Length | 2:21 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bobby Freeman | |||
Producer(s) | Brian Wilson | |||
The Beach Boys singles chronology | ||||
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Audio sample | ||||
"Do You Wanna Dance?" |
Recording
"Do You Wanna Dance?" was recorded on January 11, 1965 at Gold Star Studios and was produced, arranged and conducted by Brian Wilson. Take 3 of the song was used as the master. It was the Beach Boys' first single to feature session musicians playing most of the backing track while the group overdubbed vocals, an arrangement Wilson would maintain for the next two years. Additionally, "Do You Wanna Dance?" marked the first single released by the group following Wilson's nervous breakdown the previous year.
The band's drummer Dennis Wilson sang lead on the song. This came at a time in the band's history when Brian began giving more leads to Dennis. On The Beach Boys Today!, Dennis sang the first and last songs of the album ("Do You Wanna Dance?" and "In the Back of My Mind").[31] This was because Brian had felt that Dennis "never really had a chance to sing very much", and so he gave him more leads on the album.[32]
Release
"Do You Wanna Dance?" was released as a single through Capitol Records on February 15, 1965. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the highest charting Beach Boys song to feature Dennis Wilson on lead vocals. According to the contemporary United Press International (UPI) chart published by newspapers across the United States it was number eight in April 1965. It did best in regional playlists in the Twin Cities, Baltimore and San Jose, where it was number two; Dallas, Seattle and San Diego to number three; Portland to number four; and Chicago, Washington DC, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Hartford, Tulsa and Lincoln, number five. The B-side of the single was "Please Let Me Wonder". The song was later released as the opening track of the group's 1965 album The Beach Boys Today!.
On February 28, the band (with Brian) appeared on the television show Shindig! performing "Do You Wanna Dance?" and a truncated version of "Please Let Me Wonder".[33]
Alternate versions
In 2008, the Beach Boys compilation U.S. Singles Collection: The Capitol Years 1962-1965 featured an instrumental mix of "Do You Wanna Dance?"[34] A stereo remix of the song was released in 2012 on the stereo remaster of The Beach Boys Today!.[35] A live version recorded in March 1965 was released in 2015 for the archival live album Live in Chicago 1965.[36]
Critical reception
Retrospectively, commentators have noted "Do You Wanna Dance?" as emblematic of the growing complexity in Wilson's work on The Beach Boys Today?. Musicologist
Personnel
Sourced from Musician's Union AFM contract sheets and surviving session audio, documented by Craig Slowinski.[40]
- The Beach Boys
- Al Jardine – harmony and backing vocals
- Mike Love – harmony and backing vocals
- acoustic grand piano
- Carl Wilson – harmony and backing vocals; electric lead and rhythm guitar
- Dennis Wilson – lead vocals
- Additional musicians and production staff
- Hal Blaine – drums, wood blocks, claves
- Chuck Britz – sound engineer
- Steve Douglas– tenor saxophone
- Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone
- Larry Knechtel – bass guitar
- Larry Levine – sound engineer
- Jay Migliori – baritone saxophone
- Bill Pitman – acoustic and electric rhythm guitar
- Leon Russell – Hammond B-3 organ
- Billy Strange – electric mandolin
- Tommy Tedesco – baritone guitar, mandolin
- Julius Wechter – tambourine, timpani
- Marilyn Wilson– harmony and backing vocals
Charts
Chart (1965) | Peak position |
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Canadian RPM Singles Chart[41] | 17 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[42] | 12 |
US Cashbox Top 100[43] | 13 |
Bette Midler version
"Do You Want to Dance?" | ||||
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Single by Bette Midler | ||||
from the album The Divine Miss M | ||||
B-side | "Superstar" | |||
Released | 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Genre | Pop rock, vocal | |||
Length | 2:44 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bobby Freeman | |||
Bette Midler singles chronology | ||||
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Bette Midler included the song—with the original title restored, "Do You Want to Dance"—on her 1972 debut album The Divine Miss M. In contrast to the Bobby Freeman, Cliff Richard, and Beach Boys versions, which are uptempo rock and roll songs, Midler slowed the tempo of the song down to a sultry-sounding ballad. Midler's version was her first single release, reaching #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1973 and the top 10 of the Go-Set National Charts in Australia during April 1973. The song was #76 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973.
In 1985, Ula Hedwig, a Bette Midler-soundalike and former backup singer, sang the song emulating Bette Midler's version for a Mercury Sable television commercial after Midler refused to sing in the commercial herself. Midler sued Ford Motor Company in response in the now-memorable case Midler v. Ford Motor Co. in which she argued that utilizing a voice impersonator without her permission constituted appropriation of her personality rights. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Midler and made Ford pull the advertisement.[44][45]
Charts
Chart (1972) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[46] | 10 |
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[47] | 18 |
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[48] | 1 |
US Billboard Hot 100[49] | 17 |
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[50] | 8 |
Other versions
Bobby Fuller and The Fanatics recorded their Version probably In 1964 In Fuller Home recording studio In El Paso.
Del Shannon had a version in 1963 that reached #43 on the US charts.
John Lennon included a version of the song on his album Rock 'n' Roll released in 1975.
The
In popular culture
- The original Bobby Freeman recording features in the comedy-drama film American Graffiti (1973).
- Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia is rumored to have recorded the guitar on the original Bobby Freeman version. However, there is no definitive documentation of this.[53]
- D-TV set the original Bobby Freeman recording to Flowers and Trees and the Nutcracker Suite segment (Chinese Dance) from Fantasia.
Notes
- Pom, Pom Play Girl" was the first.[30]
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