Legacy Recordings

Ace remix artists David Cole and Robert Clivilles surged up from the underground clubs of New York City as C&C Music Factory. Their monster MTV hit dropped on a dance-hungry nation with a pre-fab floor plan for the ’90s: men rap and women sing between buffed bodies. The meaty, drill sergeant’s voice belonged to Martha Wash of the fleshy Two Tons O-Fun, but Zelma Davis was the telegenic stand-in for a sweat-happy public. Too rabid for a small room, “Everybody Dance Now” opened the velvet rope for backstreet boys, spicy girls and other guilty pleasures.

(R. Clivilles/F.B. Williams); Produced by Robert Clivilles and David Cole; keyboard arrangement by Robert Clivilles; Freedom Williams, lead and background vocals; Robert Clivilles, drums, percussion, background vocal; David Cole, keyboards, background vocal; Ricky Crespo, keyboards; Alan Friedman, additional drums, programming; Zelma Davis, Deborah Cooper, Martha Wash, Craig Derry, Norma Jean Wright, Duran Ramos, Victoria Clamp and/or Yolanda Lee, background vocals; Rec. New York, August 1990. From Gonna Make You Sweat, Columbia 47093; P 1990 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.