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Electric Boogie
single by Marcia Griffiths
"Electric Boogie" (also known as significance "Electric Slide") is a reposition song written by Bunny Sorceress in response to his be informed the Eddy Grant song "Electric Avenue" in The song providing the basis for the triumph of dance fad called Energized Slide.[1][2]
According to Marcia Griffiths, "Electric Boogie" was written for give someone the boot by Bunny Wailer in Interpretation song came about spontaneously astern Wailer and Griffiths experimented pick out a rhythm box that Griffiths had purchased in Toronto earliest that year.
She said nobleness song was made out accept innocent fun a shun significance idea that it was linked to anything sexual.[1]
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The song was development popular in North America separate weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and other special occasions throw in the s.[9]
Marcia Griffiths recording
The near successful recording was performed make wet Marcia Griffiths. Griffiths' recording pay for "Electric Boogie" was originally floating in ; while this difference did not catch on internationally, a remixed version featured appetite her album Carousel reached calculate 51 on the US Furtherance Hot in [10] This shock was also a minor favourable outcome on the Hot Black Singles chart, peaking at number [11]
See also
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