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Everybody Everybody (song)

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Released
  
15 March 1990

Length
  
5:23 (album version)

Genre
  
Italo house

Label
  
RCA

Format
  
CD maxi, 7" single, 12" maxi

Recorded
  
Madison Recording Studios, September 1989

"Everybody Everybody" is a song recorded in 1989 by the Italo-house music band Black Box. It was the third single from their debut studio album Dreamland and was released in 1990 in most countries worldwide.

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Chart performances

The song was a hit on several charts, particularly on the Hot Dance Club Play in the United States, where it reached #1 for three consecutive weeks from July 21 to August 4, 1990. The song also peaked at #2 on the U.S. R&B Chart, #8 on Billboard Hot 100, #16 on the UK Singles Chart, and achieved a great success in Ireland (#6).

The song features an uncredited Martha Wash on lead vocals. In a 1990 settlement with RCA Records, Wash was guaranteed proper credit in recordings. As was customary in their music videos, live performances and album cover art, Katrin Quinol, a French model, was featured lip-synching the lyrics sung by Wash.

Uses in the media and remixes

Industrial rock band Braindead Soundmachine included two versions the song of the same single on which they covered the Patsy Cline song "Walkin' After Midnight".

The song was featured in the 1991 film Cool As Ice.

The vocal chorus hook "Everybody Everybody" was used in the D Mob single, "One Day" in 1994.

Eurodance and electronic music DJ and producer Benny Benassi remixed "Everybody Everybody" in 2007.

The song was featured on "Play It Again, Brian," the tenth episode of the sixth season of Family Guy. The episode was originally broadcast on March 2, 2008. In the episode, Peter Griffin laments that his friend Cleveland Brown is unavailable for babysitting services because he is touring with Black Box. A clip is then shown of a rather portly, singlet-clad Brown performing "Everybody Everybody."

In 2014, House DJ and producer Offer Nissim remixed "Everybody Everybody."

In 2016, the song was featured in the final episode of the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story during O.J. Simpson's celebration party after his acquittal.

Track listings

UK 7" single
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (love unlimited edit) — 3:58
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak instrumental) — 4:32
German 7" single
  1. "Everybody Everybody" — 3:10
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (instrumental) — 3:40
US & Canadian 12" maxi
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak mix) — 5:20
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak mix 7" edit) — 4:07
  3. "Everybody Everybody" (love unlimited edit) — 3:58
  4. "Everybody Everybody" (rockapella) — 4:37
  5. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak instrumental) — 4:32
UK 12" maxi
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak mix) — 5:20
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (love unlimited edit) — 3:58
  3. "Everybody Everybody" (rockapella) — 4:38
German 12" maxi
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (club mix) — 5:30
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (rockapella) — 4:36
  3. "Everybody Everybody" (instrumental) — 4:48
Alternative German 12" maxi
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (house special) — 5:02
  2. "Dreamland" — 1:58
  3. "Everybody Everybody" — 5:18
UK CD maxi
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (love unlimited edit) — 3:58
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak mix) — 5:20
  3. "Everybody Everybody" (rockapella) — 4:38
  4. "Everybody Everybody" (house mix) — 5:02
German CD maxi
  1. "Everybody Everybody" (le freak mix) — 5:20
  2. "Everybody Everybody" (rockapella) — 4:36
  3. "Everybody Everybody" (instrumental) — 4:48

References

Everybody Everybody (song) Wikipedia
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