#Cathy Dennis

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♈ March 25th: Pop Star, Cathy Dennis.

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: January 14, 1991

Lyrics:

We're starting it over, we're making way for destiny

A time to turn over, a better life for you and me

A new recreation, to channel all this energy, hmmm

Let's solve the equation, I need to keep you close to me

So baby let your conscience go

There's no turning back when love takes hold

Hold me baby, drive me crazy

Touch me all night long

Make me love you, kiss and hug you

Touch me all night long

The more that I see you

The more I know that love belongs

With you in my mind boy

I wouldn't know what's right from wrong

'Cos live will take over

And leave you out of sight and mind

You've got to go with the feeling

And trust fate to be kind

And baby let your conscience go

There's no turning back when love takes hold

Hold me baby, drive me crazy

Touch me all night long

Make me love you, kiss and hug you

Touch me all night long

Hold me baby, drive me crazy

Touch me all night long

Make me love you, kiss and hug you

Touch me all night long

Songwriter:

And baby let your conscience go

There's no turning back when love takes hold

Hold me baby, drive me crazy

Touch me all night long

Make me love you, kiss and hug you

Touch me all night long

Delyle Gregory Carmichael / Patrick P Adams

SongFacts:

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Homepage:

Cathy Dennis

[eriksangel666]

New podcast episode is up! This week, we kick off season 6 with our unofficial tradition of covering lady pop stars by traveling to England to listen to the Irresistible Cathy Dennis!

[weaversweek]

"Reach" and "Over the rainbow"

Unlike last year's effort, Fear of Music is not presented chronologically. Unlike many other lists of 50, this one is not ordered from great to even better.

However. It makes sense to start in the year 2000, and it makes sense to start with one of the songs just scraping into the top 50. Two of the Uncool50 have been replaced, this is the only one where I had serious doubts about whether it still merited a place. (Does this suggest I skimped on research last year? Probably.)

"Reach" - written by Cathy Dennis and Ronnie Hazelhurst, performed by S Club 7 - a European hit single in summer 2000. It's the era of manufactured pop, bursting through like sunshine through the clouds. Those harmonies! The uplifting melody line!

The whole century's going to be as fun and positive as this, right?

S Club 7 split less than two years later. Cathy Dennis wrote other big hits - I considered "Toxic" and "Can't get you out of my head", but neither survived into the top 100.

Eva Cassidy died in 1996. She was a natural musician - came up with three-part harmonies from nowhere, improvised with skill and precision - but never hit the record company leagues.

Indie label Blix Street had rights to Eva's live performances and studio records, and hawked them to tastemakers. One was Paul Walters, the producer of Terry Wogan's breakfast show on Radio 2.

From nowhere, Eva Cassiday was everywhere. Blix Street have eked out Eva's tiny back catalogue to a remarkable degree; I just hope they'll never try to use an autocomplete bot to "re-create" her.

"Over the rainbow" was written in the 1930s by Harold Arlen and Yip Harberg in 1938; I'd name Eva's as the definitive recording.

[number1milfloislover]

Cathy Dennis, “West End Pad” MV (1996). From her album, Am I the Kinda Girl?

[radiomaxmusic]

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 11am ET: Feature Artist: Cathy Dennis

Catherine Roseanne Dennis (born March 25, 1969) is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. She was discovered as a teenager by music manager Simon Fuller, which led to her featuring on the hit dance single “C’mon and Get My Love” with D Mob in 1989. In the early 1990s, Dennis saw international solo success with her debut album Move to This (1990), which included three US top-ten…

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[itsmyfriendisaac]

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[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 5, 1997

Lyrics:

Dirty old river must you keep rolling

Flowing into the night

People so busy make me feel dizzy

Taxi lights shine so bright

But I don't need no friends

As long as I gaze at Waterloo sunset

I am in paradise

Sha la la

Every day I look at the world from my window

Sha la la

Jelly jellys in evening time

Waterloo sunset's fine

Sha la la

Terry meets Julie Waterloo station

Every Friday night

But I am so lazy I don't want to wonder

I'll stay at home at night

But I don't

Feel afraid

As long as I gaze at Waterloo sunset

I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window

Sha la la

Jelly jellys in evening time

Waterloo sunset's fine

Millions of people

Swarming like flies round

Waterloo underground

Terry and Julie

Cross over the river

Where everything's safe and sound

And they don't need no friends

As long as they gaze up Waterloo sunset

They are in paradise

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Songwriter: Raymond Davies

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

Waterloo sunset's fine

SongFacts:

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Homepage:

Cathy Dennis

[strawberryswitchbladeworld]

I love how my dad collected cds growing up when he was at the States for a time.

Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode

Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors

Lucky Dumpling - Moonpools and Caterpillars

The Best of New Order

Empire Records OST

Move to This - Cathy Dennis

No Need to Argue - The Cranberries

Tracy Chapman Self-titled

[weaversweek]

"Toxic" and "Can't stop the feeling!"

A pair into the #FearOfMu21c project, crowdsourcing the greatest singles of the 21st century. Here’s an index post.

Toxic - Britney Spears

I mentioned last time that Taylor Swift grew up in public. Britney Spears was never allowed that luxury. The Irish Times recently reviewed Britney's memoir:

Celebrity destroyed Spears. She was forced into premature adulthood: dressed in suggestive outfits; putting on promiscuous performances; working harder than most adults; financially supporting her family. But all the while her mind slowly regressed to childhood. She admits that after she was left by her husband, separated from her children, and mourned the death of a relative she became increasingly mentally juvenile. But that was by her mid-20s. In fact, this process was kicked into gear the moment she became a star. The weight of the contradiction – to be a child dressed as an adult, to be both sides of the “Madonna and whore” archetype at once – broke something in her. Even the prose in her book (reportedly ghostwritten) casts Spears, now 41, as a well-spoken preteen.

If there was a time when Britney Spears could have grown up, it's "Toxic". The sound of early 2004 featured Britney as an air hostess, as a black widow burglar, and writhing on the floor wearing a bejeweled skintight bodysuit. That'll keep the straights interested, and sell the message that Britney's mature now.

"Toxic" was written by Cathy Dennis and Henrik Jonback, with input from producers Bloodshy & Avant. Is it about Cathy Dennis's ex Noel Fitzpatrick from Channel 4's Supervet? Ah, she'll never say. Was the song turned down by Kylie Minogue? Very much so, it would have been her finest moment of the century. Are those Bollywood high-strings in the mix? Oh yes, that is entirely deliberate, so is the same motif being played backwards just before the middle eight.

Can't stop the feeling! - Justin Timberlake

Greatest pop song of the 2010s? "Can’t stop the feeling!", a disco confection more perfect than any millefeuille. Start with a funky bass riff, add on some sampled guitars and horns to accentuate the chorus like Wham! did.

The lyric doesn't have to mean much, in fact it's probably better if the lyric doesn't mean anything. Written by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Shellback, it's a feelgood song, an instant classic… and got completely overshadowed in its own lunchtime. Didn’t even win Best Interval Act at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.

(And it's an excuse to post my favourite Senior Eurovision photo ever.)

[number1milfloislover]

[bjanis]

Cathy Dennis, You Lied To Me