Do You Want to Dance

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"Do You Want to Dance"
Bobby Freeman Do You Want To Dance.jpg
Single by Bobby Freeman
B-side "Big Fat Woman"
Released1958 (1958)
Genre Rock and roll
Length2:30
Label Josie
Songwriter(s) Bobby Freeman
Bobby Freeman singles chronology
"Do You Want to Dance"
(1958)
"Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes"
(1958)

"Do You Want to Dance" is a song written by American singer Bobby Freeman and recorded by him in 1958. It reached number No. 5 on the United States Billboard Top 100 Sides pop chart and No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. [1] [2] [3] Cliff Richard and the Shadows' version of the song reached No. 2 in the United Kingdom in 1962, despite being a B-side. The Beach Boys notably covered the song in 1965 for their album The Beach Boys Today!. Retitled "Do You Wanna Dance?", their version reached No. 12 in the United States. A 1972 cover by Bette Midler with the original title restored reached No. 17.

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A different song called "Do You Wanna Dance?" was a UK hit for Barry Blue in 1973.

Bobby Freeman version

San Francisco-born teenager Bobby Freeman had been a member of doo-wop groups the Romancers and the Vocaleers. When asked by a local DJ if he had written any songs, he wrote several and recorded them as solo demos. These included "Do You Want to Dance", which was heard by a visiting record label executive, Mortimer Palitz of Jubilee Records. He signed Freeman to the label, and had the original recording overdubbed in New York by session musicians including guitarist Billy Mure. Released on the Jubilee subsidiary label Josie, "Do You Want to Dance" quickly rose to number 5 on the pop chart and number 2 on the R&B chart in early 1958, when Freeman was still only 17. [4] [5] Contrary to some reports, Jerry Garcia did not play on the record. [5]

The song was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). [6]

Cliff Richard and the Shadows version

"Do You Want to Dance"
Do you want to dance - Im looking out the window.jpg
Cover of the Danish edition
Single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows
A-side "I'm Lookin' Out the Window"
Released4 May 1962 (1962-05-04) [7]
Recorded19 December 1961
Studio EMI, London
Genre Rock and roll
Length2:16
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Bobby Freeman
Producer(s) Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard and the Shadows singles chronology
"The Young Ones"
(1962)
"I'm Lookin' Out the Window" / "Do You Want to Dance"
(1962)
"It'll Be Me"
(1962)

The Cliff Richard and the Shadows version [8] also known as "Do You Wanna Dance" was released in the United Kingdom as the B-side of "I'm Lookin' Out the Window" in May 1962. However, like seven other Cliff Richard singles released between 1959 and 1963, the B-side received a good amount of airplay and made the New Musical Express UK singles chart in its own right. On this occasion, it became Richard's second highest charting B-side (after "Bachelor Boy"), making it to number 10 (while "I'm Lookin' Out the Window" reached number 2). The single reached number 2 on the other UK chart, the official UK Singles Chart, listing both tracks. [9]

"Do You Want to Dance" went on to become the more successful charting track from the single in some countries, reaching number 1 in the Netherlands, Australia (based on the Sydney chart of the time, because an Australian nationwide chart had not yet started) and Flemish Belgium. [10] [11] [12] The single went on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide. [13]

"Do You Want to Dance" was included on the EP Cliff’s Hits, released November 1962, and first appeared on LP with Richard's first compilation album Cliff's Hit Album, released July 1963. A live version appeared on Richard's double album Japan Tour 74 issued in 1975.

Recording

"Do You Want to Dance" was recorded on December 19, 1961 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios. The session, engineered by Malcolm Addy and produced by EMI's A&R man Norrie Paramor, featured new drummer Brian Bennett and Jet Harris on bass, soon to leave the Shadows in 1962. [14]

Charts

Chart entries as "Do You Want to Dance" or "Do You Want to Dance"/"I'm Looking Out the Window":

Chart (1962)Peak
position
UK ( New Musical Express Chart) [9] 10
Australia (Kent Music Report) [15]
(retrospectively calculated chart position)
3
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [16] 4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [17] 9
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [18] 1
Spain (Promusicae) [19] 15
Sweden ( Tio i Topp ) [20] 1

Chart entries as "I'm Looking Out the Window"/"Do You Want to Dance":

Chart (1962)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [21] 2
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [22] 9
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) [23] 18
Ireland (IRMA) [24] 2
Norway (VG-lista) [25] 2
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [26] 3

The Beach Boys version

"Do You Wanna Dance?"
Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance%3F.jpg
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album The Beach Boys Today!
B-side "Please Let Me Wonder"
ReleasedFebruary 15, 1965
RecordedJanuary 11, 1965
Studio Gold Star, Hollywood, California
Genre Rock and roll [27]
Length2:21
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Bobby Freeman
Producer(s) Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"The Man with All the Toys"
(1964)
"Do You Wanna Dance?"
(1965)
"Help Me, Rhonda"
(1965)
Audio sample
"Do You Wanna Dance?"

The Beach Boys' version of "Do You Wanna Dance?" was released as a single in February 1965, and served as the opening track to their album The Beach Boys Today! the following month. It is distinguished from the original through its lush orchestration, three-part vocal arrangement, and instrumental bridge key change. [28] Dillon speculated that the rendition may have been inspired by the version by Del Shannon, who had recently recorded the song, although the Beach Boys' version bears a "closer resemblance" to an earlier version by Cliff Richard and the Shadows. [29] It was the first song the group recorded at Gold Star, Spector's favorite studio, and their second song that employed a timpani. [30] [nb 1]

Recording

"Do You Wanna Dance?" was recorded on January 11, 1965 at Gold Star Studios and was produced, arranged and conducted by Brian Wilson. Take 3 of the song was used as the master. It was the Beach Boys' first single to feature session musicians playing most of the backing track while the group overdubbed vocals, an arrangement Wilson would maintain for the next two years. Additionally, "Do You Wanna Dance?" marked the first single released by the group following Wilson's nervous breakdown the previous year.

Dennis Wilson sang lead on the song, marking his first lead vocal on a Beach Boys single Dennis Wilson 1966.jpg
Dennis Wilson sang lead on the song, marking his first lead vocal on a Beach Boys single

The band's drummer Dennis Wilson sang lead on the song. This came at a time in the band's history when Brian began giving more leads to Dennis. On The Beach Boys Today!, Dennis sang the first and last songs of the album ("Do You Wanna Dance?" and "In the Back of My Mind"). [31] This was because Brian had felt that Dennis "never really had a chance to sing very much", and so he gave him more leads on the album. [32]

Release

"Do You Wanna Dance?" was released as a single through Capitol Records on February 15, 1965. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the highest charting Beach Boys song to feature Dennis Wilson on lead vocals. According to the contemporary United Press International (UPI) chart published by newspapers across the United States it was number eight in April 1965. It did best in regional playlists in the Twin Cities, Baltimore and San Jose, where it was number two; Dallas, Seattle and San Diego to number three; Portland to number four; and Chicago, Washington DC, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Hartford, Tulsa and Lincoln, number five. The B-side of the single was "Please Let Me Wonder". The song was later released as the opening track of the group's 1965 album The Beach Boys Today!.

On February 28, the band (with Brian) appeared on the television show Shindig! performing "Do You Wanna Dance?" and a truncated version of "Please Let Me Wonder". [33]

Alternate versions

In 2008, the Beach Boys compilation U.S. Singles Collection: The Capitol Years 1962-1965 featured an instrumental mix of "Do You Wanna Dance?" [34] A stereo remix of the song was released in 2012 on the stereo remaster of The Beach Boys Today!. [35] A live version recorded in March 1965 was released in 2015 for the archival live album Live in Chicago 1965 . [36]

Critical reception

Cash Box described it as having "an infectious neo-surfln’ style complete with rapidly-changing, danceable riffs." [37]

Retrospectively, commentators have noted "Do You Wanna Dance?" as emblematic of the growing complexity in Wilson's work on The Beach Boys Today?. Musicologist Philip Lambert described "Do You Wanna Dance?" as an example of a song that "highlights the difference between ‘a song covered by the Beach Boys’ and an existing song transformed into ‘a Beach Boys song". [38] Journalist Scott Iterrante praised "Do You Wanna Dance?" as a "sophisticated reinterpretation" by Wilson of the original song, additionally saying "Wilson proves that he can be just as harmonically and structurally inventive with catchy dance songs as he can with emotional ballads." [39]

Personnel

Sourced from Musician's Union AFM contract sheets and surviving session audio, documented by Craig Slowinski. [40]

The Beach Boys
Additional musicians and production staff

Charts

Chart (1965)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart [41] 17
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [42] 12
US Cashbox Top 100 [43] 13

Bette Midler version

"Do You Want to Dance?"
Bette Midler Do You Want to Dance single cover.jpg
Single by Bette Midler
from the album The Divine Miss M
B-side "Superstar"
Released1972
Recorded1972
Genre Pop rock, vocal
Length2:44
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Bobby Freeman
Bette Midler singles chronology
"Do You Want to Dance?"
(1972)
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"
(1972)

Bette Midler included the song—with the original title restored, "Do You Want to Dance"—on her 1972 debut album The Divine Miss M . In contrast to the Bobby Freeman, Cliff Richard, and Beach Boys versions, which are uptempo rock and roll songs, Midler slowed the tempo of the song down to a sultry-sounding ballad. Midler's version was her first single release, reaching #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1973 and the top 10 of the Go-Set National Charts in Australia during April 1973. The song was #76 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973.

In 1985, Ula Hedwig, a Bette Midler-soundalike and former backup singer, sang the song emulating Bette Midler's version for a Mercury Sable television commercial after Midler refused to sing in the commercial herself. Midler sued Ford Motor Company in response in the now-memorable case Midler v. Ford Motor Co. in which she argued that utilizing a voice impersonator without her permission constituted appropriation of her personality rights. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Midler and made Ford pull the advertisement. [44] [45]

Charts

Chart (1972)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [46] 10
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [47] 18
Canada Adult Contemporary ( RPM ) [48] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [49] 17
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [50] 8

Other versions

The Mamas and the Papas included a version of the song on their debut album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears in 1966.

John Lennon included a version of the song on his album Rock 'n' Roll released in 1975.

The Ramones' released a version of "Do You Wanna Dance?" in 1978. [51] It was used in the film Rock 'n' Roll High School , and in a television advertisement for the release of Wall-E on DVD. Record World said that the Ramones' treatment "is brief, rough and to the point." [52]

Notes

  1. "Pom, Pom Play Girl" was the first. [30]

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