Boogie Oogie Oogie

"Boogie Oogie Oogie"
Single by A Taste of Honey
from the album A Taste of Honey
B-side	"World Spin"
Released	July 1978
Recorded	1978
Genre	Disco
Length	5:37
Label	Capitol
Writer(s)	Janice Marie Johnson Perry L. Kibble
Producer(s)	Fonce Mizell Larry Mizell
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
A Taste of Honey singles chronology
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" (1978) "Do It Good" (1979)

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" is a song by the American band A Taste of Honey. Released from their self-titled debut studio album in 1978, it became an extremely popular "crossover" disco song. The lyrics urge listeners to "boogie oogie oogie till you just can't boogie no more". It topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Hot Soul Singles chart,^[1] and the Hot Dance Club Play chart.^[2] It eventually sold over two million copies and has become one of the most recognizable songs from the disco era. It also helped the group to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1978. It reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart.

In the late 1990s, the song was used in a national campaign advertisement by Burger King and was sampled by numerous rap acts. The song was also used in a campaign for Rold Gold Pretzels (featuring the actor Jason Alexander) in the mid-1990s. Janice Marie Johnson, a member of the group, recorded another version of the song in 2001. The song was used in the first episode of season four of Nip/Tuck and in an episode of Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts Chart (1978) Peak position Australia [3] 18 Canada 2 Germany 40 Netherlands 32 New Zealand 2 UK 3 US Billboard Hot 100 1 US Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1 US Billboard Hot Disco Singles 1 US Cash Box Top 100 1

Year-end charts Chart (1978) Rank Australia 139 Canada 28 New Zealand [4] 16 UK [5] 26 US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 9 US Cash Box [7] 7

Samples and covers

• GQ released its own version of the song in 1979. The cover picture shows Janice-Marie Johnson holding a classic 1970s Fender Jazz bass guitar.
• Pure Sugar's "Delicious" in 1998 samples Johnson's bass riff (and Hazel Payne's guitar riff) from "Boogie Oogie Oogie".
• Wounded Buffalo's remix of Jamiroquai's "Little L", on the single of the same name, samples a portion of Johnson's bass line from this song.
• Double sampled the song for her song "Driving All Night".
• Keenan MacWilliam, Sophie Bennett and Lara Jean Marshall covered "Boogie Oogie Oogie" on their Saddle Club CD Friends Forever.

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 566.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 356.
3. http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
4. http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3867
5. http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1978.shtml
6. http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1978.htm
7. http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/1978YESP.html

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
• Song review