Ride on Time

So on this Monday, it was the game everyone was talking about.

Uh, first though, uh, what was on the radio? The number one single that week was "Ride on Time" by Black Box.

It's Italian house music with a huge, um, Loleatta Holloway vocal sample, uh, and a model called Catrin Quinell miming it in the video.

It spent six weeks at number one and finished as 1989's top-selling single.

Here's Black Box.

[upbeat music] Ride on time.

'Cause you're right on time.

Right on time.

The other three come in almost 20 years on between 1998 and 2000.

One of the most sampled female vocalists, most famously on Ride On Time by Black Box.

I think it's only now that she's really revered internationally, obviously people who knew from New York and Chicago and stuff.

But now it's only of the last 25 years, I think, that people have really come to realize what an incredible...

samantha fox yeah i heard about this with i wanna have some fun in 1988 samples love sensation and you can hear bits from the house music anthem in that samantha fox single as well samantha fox knew what time it was Right? Get your lawyers.

Don't underestimate it.

Then, obviously, as a lot of people know, the floodgates really opened for this tune in 1989, most prominently by Black Box Ride On Time in July, the Mixmaster Grand Piano in October, Big Crossover Pop Hits.

We talked about both of them on our previous episode with Terry Farley.

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By Black Box for Ride On Time.

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And by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, which is my last track, Good Vibrations.