How to Dance

"How to Dance"
Single by Bingoboys featuring Princessa
from the album The Best of Bingoboys
Released1990
Genre
Length3:46
LabelAtlantic
SongwritersBingoboys (Klaus Biedermann, Paul Pfab, Helmut Wolfgruber)
ProducerMartin Neumayer
Bingoboys singles chronology
"How to Dance"
(1990)		 "Borrowed Love"
(1991)
Princessa singles chronology
"How to Dance"
(1991)		 "Rojo Y Llanto"
(1993)

"How to Dance" is a song by Austrian house music trio Bingoboys from their debut studio album, The Best of Bingoboys (1991). The song features American female rapper Princessa and was first released in the United States in 1990, then was given a European and Australian release in March 1991.

"How to Dance" peaked at number two in Austria and reached the top 10 in Australia, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. In the US, it climbed to number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Dance Club Play chart for one week in March 1991. The music video for the song was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category of "Best Dance Video", losing to "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by the C+C Music Factory.

Composition

The song borrows heavily from a number of earlier recordings, including "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" by the band Chic, "Dance (Disco Heat)" by the disco singer Sylvester, "Kiss" by Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones, the popular James Brown "Yeah! Woo!" sample loop, the bassline motif from Mantronix's single "Got to Have Your Love", and a synth motif from The Whispers' "And the Beat Goes On". In addition, the song contains audio samples from an instructional recording from the 1970s that attempted to teach people "how to dance" (for example, Step left, around, and together with the right).

Charts

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States 1990
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • cassette
 Atlantic
United Kingdom 11 March 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
Australia 25 March 1991
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • cassette
22 April 1991 CD

See also

References

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