A classic disco song which was also featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The song uses the hook from Chuck Brown’s 1979 hit “Bustin’ Loose” This song title was somewhat deliberately misspelled a little like most of Slade’s early 70s output. Also known as Cornell Haynes Jr, Nelly had quite a prolific output in the noughties.

It was also used prominently in the film ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Taken from the album ‘Synkronized’ the song reached number four in the UK Chart and made it to the top of the US Dance Chart. It is one of my favourite Elvis songs from his later years The song was written by Dennis Linde and first recorded by Arthur Alexander. Her Mum was a bilingual Secretary but her Dad had what must have been quite a unique job, he was a laboratory technician who milked serum from venomous snakes in the Belgian Congo! Her parents named her Susan Janet Ballion (although I have seen it noted as Dallion). Snoop was known as Calvin Broadus although his parents did give him the nickname Snoopy because they felt there was a resemblance to the Charles Schultz creation. “ Drop It Like It’s Hot” – Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell. It was also used to great effect in the blood collection scene in the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ which starred John Travolta. The song was well covered by Linda Ronstadt. A classic Motown track and one of the many hits penned by the Holland Dozier Holland writing team. “ (Love Is Like A) Heatwave” – Martha & The Vandellas. It has been covered by many people including David Johansen off of the New York Dolls using his Buster Poindexter alter ego An excellent party song which was written and produced by Montserrat musician, Arrow (aka Alphonsus Cassell). “The Heat Is On” is taken from Beverly Hills Cop which starred Eddie Murphy He once fronted a duo with J D Souther (in 1969) who were known as Longbranch Pennywhistle.

Frey co wrote many of the Eagles greatest songs with Don Henley and also sang lead vocals on plenty of them. Featuring one of the best white soul voices ever in my opinion, Robert Palmer and some random dudes off of Duran Duran (John Taylor and Andy Taylor) and some more randomers from Chic (Tony Thompson and Bernard Edwards) But here’s the sick part, it got me thinking about heat songs, so after you’ve read the story on the Beeb and the Guardian I hope you enjoy my heat selection!Ĭlick here to read the story on the Guardian Are people so bored that they have to see this as a sport? It’s bloody mental in my opinion. Ladyzhenskiy was dead and Kaukonen had suffered severe burns. After six minutes in the final officials noticed that there was something wrong. The two men who got through the heats (pardon the pun) this year were the reigning champion and five time winner Timo Kaukonen from Finland and Vladimir Ladyzhenskiy of Russia. Basically it’s about who can stay in the sauna for the longest at temperatures of 110C. But as my good friend Fraser Matthews once said to me “Billy Boy, you are one sick puppy!” Anyway the story concerns this years 12th (and almost certainly last) annual Sauna World Championship. There is every possibility that some of you may see this as a sick choice of subject, so for that let me apologise up front. This option would have been one hell of a lot safer

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