"Dancing in heaven, 

I never thought 

I'd ever get my feet this far 

Orbital be-bop!" 

 Q-Feel sang this pop confection in 1983, and I was filled with frantic energy on the dance floor of the club (with my fake ID), every time it played.  I'm happy to be the proud owner of every album that they ever made. Because they only made one...ha!   

"Dancing in Heaven (Orbital BeBop) was a dance hit (#18 Dance, #110 Pop) that had some legs since it resurfaced on the charts again in 1989 – even higher on the pop charts (#75 Pop, #44 Dance). Interesting that it didn’t chart at all in Europe since it was UK’s 1982 “A Song for Europe” contender for Eurovision.  But Q-Feel never had another hit, charted song or album.  Truly and literally a one-hit wonder.  When I found the 12-inch single shown her with the Spanish title “Bailando En El Cielo”, I was so pumped up thinking I was going to hear the song in Spanish.  But no!  Just the regular and dub versions of the song.  The official U.S. 12-inch single has 6 satisfying mixes along with “At the Top (All the Way to St. Tropez)” which is NOT on their album.  But this is THE version they played in the clubs, with the soaring intro: 

I can't believe that it wasn't until this writing that I found out that there is an actual video to this catchy pop song.  You can tell by the comments on YouTube how much people remember and loved it.  Such a cheesy, fun 80's video - check out the "Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow" 

Although Q-Feel may have only had one hit, co-founder Martin Page used it as a launching pad to get lots of work in America. He played keyboards on Ghostbusters, wrote “King of Wishful Thinking” for Go west and produced or collaborated with people like Barbra Streisand, Earth Wind & Fire, Paul Young - was even Grammy nominated for producing Robbie Robertson. Now, THAT’S how to take 5 minutes and turn it into a career!! 

Another Q band that gets me dancing is Quantize.  I'm a sucker for dance remixes of cover songs, especially done Euro Pop Style.  Being such a huge fan of The Supremes, I picked up the Quantize "Stop! In the Name of Love" 12-inch single without knowing anything about it. I ended up loving the song so much because of its danceable and happy energy, that it is still on my workout playlist. I'm happy to have all four of Quantize’s 12-in picture sleeves: “Stop! In the Name of Love” (1990), “The Sun Ain't Going To Shine Anymore” and “You've Lost That Loving Feeling” (both 1988) and “Yesterday Once More” (1991).   

When somebody takes a previously charted hit song from an earlier decade, throws in a faceless mildly talented vocalist, but speeds up the BPM with a production sound similar to Stock Aiken and Waterman … then I'm 100% sold. I crave that crack, and I'll hit the pipe every time!