Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'

Chart Peak: 32

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A track that's left remarkably little footprint online, even though it's just about a product of the internet age. It's not even on YouTube in this guise, although of course you can see the Captain & Tenille introducing the original. So you may have to trust me on this, but it's one of the many Eurodisco/rap versions of disco-era hits that were so popular around this time, and of course is utterly rubbish. Sayer's re-recorded vocal is less piercing than the 1976 original, but that's about the nicest thing I could say about this.

I seem to remember some big campaign from one of the tabloids to restore Sayer to the top of the charts with this (WHY?!!) and perhaps this was what hoodwinked Virgin into thinking this would be a big enough hit to fit on here. Or perhaps including it at this point, midway through the first disc, was some sort of cry for help amid the shabbiness of 1998 pop. Leo Sayer now lives on the opposite side of the world - coincidence or pure shame?

Leo Sayer also appears on: Now 63 (with Meck)