Boogie Wonderland
Earth, Wind & Fire
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Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey Dance, Boogie Wonderland Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men Who need more than they get Daylight deals a bad hand to a woman Who has laid too many bets The mirror stares you in the face and says "Baby, uh, uh, it don't work" You say your prayers though you don't care You dance and shake the hat Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey Dance, Boogie Wonderland Sound fly through the night I chase my vinyl dreams to Boogie Wonderland I find romance when I start to dance in Boogie Wonderland I find romance when I start to dance in Boogie Wonderland All the love in the world can't be gone All the need to be loved can't be wrong All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying "Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland" Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey I find romance when I start to dance in Boogie Wonderland I find romance when I start to dance in Boogie Wonderland Dance, dance (Boogie Wonderland), dance, dance Dance, dance (Boogie Wonderland), dance, dance Wonderland Wonderland All the love in the world can't be gone (love in the world can't be gone) All the need to be loved can't be wrong (need to be loved can't be wrong) All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey I find romance when I start to dance in Boogie Wonderland I find romance when I start to dance in Boogie Wonderland Dance, dance, dance (Boogie Wonderland), dance, dance, dance, dance Dance, dance (Boogie Wonderland), dance
About
"Boogie Wonderland" is a song by American band Earth, Wind & Fire with the Emotions, released in April 1979 on Columbia Records as the first single from their ninth album, I Am (1979). The song was written by Jon Lind and Allee Willis and inspired by the movie "Looking For Mr. Goodbar." The movie stars Diane Keaton as a lost soul who goes to clubs every night to dance away her misery. "Boogie Wonderland" peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at number two on the Hot Soul Singles chart. "Boogie Wonderland" was certified gold in the United States by the RIAA and Gold in the United Kingdom by the BPI. The song was nominated for a Grammy in both R&B Instrumental Performance and Disco Recording. "Boogie Wonderland" is written in the key of C♯ minor and has a tempo of 118 beats per minute. The Emotions provided the female vocals on this song, which is credited to Earth Wind & Fire with The Emotions. The Hutchinson sisters, Wanda, Sheila, and Jeanette, were the members of the Emotions female vocal trio from Chicago. Maurice White had previously collaborated with them and helped to produce their 1977 #1 hit "Best Of My Love." According to an interview with Songfacts, when asked about how the song's title came to be, Allee Willis said: "It was 1978, and every song had 'boogie' in the title. And I was always someone who really wanted to be different. I was a journalism major in college, and I didn't like song lyrics that didn't hold up as kind of stories if you were to just happen to read them and didn't hear the music. And the series of 'boogie' songs that were coming out lyrically were especially stupid to me, even though I loved and still love disco music more than any music that ever existed. So I really wanted to write a disco song, but I wanted it lyrically to be almost in a different genre than what the standard was. So we kept thinking of other ways that we could use the word 'boogie' other than just to dance." The song received positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic editor Steve Huey called the song "a perfect example of the streamlined, sophisticated sound that Earth, Wind & Fire had perfected on I Am." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice described the song as "a nice disco number" and praised the Emotions' performance. "One of the few records that paired two full-fledged groups successfully, the combination of EWF and the Emotions worked wonders here and it remains a classic of the period," Matthew Greenwald of AllMusic said. Allen Weiner of Morning Call also said, "Boogie Wonderland is the LP's most commercial tune, a tribute to both jazz/soul and disco fans that is pulsating and pleasing." "Boogie Wonderland" has been covered by numerous artists, including Eric Clapton, Donna Summer, Eurythmics, Hanson and Madonna. In 2000, British trance group System F released a cover of the song which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart.
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Song Info
Release Year
1979
Genres
Disco
Funk
Soul
Dance
Moods
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Vocals
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