John Benitez

There were, yeah-

You might get a Jellybean Benitez every now and then.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

Her artwork, yeah

... one of Jellybean's, Jellybean Benitez, I bet, produced that.

Yes.

Around the time when they were working together.

She was on the B side of, like, hip hop songs.

Like, she had a song called Sidewalk Talk too back in them days.

If you know any of that B-boy shit, J- Jellybean Benitez had a song called The Mexican, another rendition of Babe Ruth, you know? Dun-do-dun-dun-dun, dun-na-na-na.

Oh, shit.

Tell me about that.

We recorded a number of versions of Promises Promises, one of which was in New York with Jellybean.

And his girlfriend at the time, Madonna, was in the studio.

And at some point, somebody suggested it might be a good idea for her to do something on it.

You just have one bloke, a brilliant DJ, and they exist.

People want the best sound and light and a great DJ." Then somebody would come along and say, "I'm Madonna and I've just made a record, and Jellybean has remixed it, and I wanna perform in your club." That was called promo.

So I was going, yeah, we had Malcolm McLaren, you know, everybody.

We had, we had, um, The Moonwalk.

Big welcome.

first one the brothers johnson back in the days with the brand new devli ramex the real thing Back in the days, once again, on Easy Street Records for the Jelly Bean Benitez remix.

Hot streaked bodywork with the

2000 remix from Dr. Packer.

And by doing nothing, what? I was going to

say, so Promises Promises, the producer behind it was John Jellybean Benitez.

Do you remember him? No.

Anyway, he was a big guy and he did a lot of the dance remixes and brought in Madonna to do the background vocals of Naked Eyes.

Three amigos.

John Jelly Bean Benitez.

Marlon D. and Mena Keyes.

Don't tell men, we are one.

Love will save the day.

Jellybean Benitez.

And David Morales.

Nothing saves the day Nothing saves the day