Fans recognize the hit of the band C&C Music Factory from the first seconds. There is no denying that this is due to the characteristic strong female vocal. “Gonna Make You Sweat…” can still be heard at discos, clubs, house parties, TV series, movies and even sports events. It’s one of dance music’s biggest hits, but its history is not without controversy.
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“Gonna Make You Sweat…” is probably associated with everyone. The song has a sad story
The story of “Gonna Make You Sweat…” began with music. Robert Clivilles initially offered a song he wrote to Trilogy, but they declined. So Clivilles and David Cole decided to use a ready-made melody. C+C Music Factory invited rapper Freedom Williams and vocalist Martha Wash to record. Williams was then working in the recording studio that Civilles and Cole used. Wash, on the other hand, has already had a lot of success. In The Weather Girls duet with Izora Armstead in the 1980s, she gained fame with the song “It’s Raining Men”. It is her strong and distinctive vocals that make the song stand out.
However, Clivilles and Cole found that good vocals are not everything. They needed , which will be broadcast on television. However, they did not invite Martha Wash to the recording, because the singer struggled with obesity, so in their opinion this was an obstacle. C+C Music Factory, persuaded by the producers and labels, decided to engage the model Zelma Davis. The problem is, Martha Wash didn’t know anything about it.
She fought for her rights in court. The judgment changed the regulations
When in 1990 the duo received the Billboard Music Awards statuette for the best new artist, Freedom Williams and … Zelma Davis appeared on the stage. Meanwhile, Martha Wash, watching MTV, accidentally came across the video for the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”. It is hardly surprising that she was surprised when she saw that the vocal parts she sang in the clip were “shouted” by another person. In 1991, Wash decided to sue Sony Music and C+C Music Factory. Robert Clivilles and David Cole saw nothing wrong with replacing the singer. The Los Angeles Supreme Court disagreed. In 1994, before each airing of the music video on MTV, it was ordered to publish an appropriate board informing that the vocal parts are performed by Martha Wash, Zelma Davis is only a model appearing in the music video.
Wash has become an accidental pillar in the fight for artists’ rights. After the singer filed lawsuits against producers and record labels […]new federal regulations were created that make vocal credits mandatory for all albums and music videos.
– he wrote in 2014.
Source: Gazeta
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