Eat You Up (Angie Gold song)

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"Eat You Up"
Angie Gold - Eat You Up.jpg
Single by Angie Gold
from the album Applause
B-side "Eat You Up (Instrumental)"
Released1985 (1985)
Recorded1985
Genre Hi-NRG
Label Passion Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Les Hunt
Angie Gold singles chronology
"Lucky in Love"
(1982)		"Eat You Up"
(1985)		"Timebomb"
(1985)
Audio
"Eat You Up" on YouTube

"Eat You Up" is a song by British singer-songwriter Angie Gold, released in 1985 by Passion Records. It was written by her and Anthony Baker, and produced by Les Hunt. [1] [2]

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The song spent six weeks on US Billboard 's Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart in July–August 1985, [3] but found more success in Japan, when covered in Japanese by Yōko Oginome towards the end of the year. [4] [5] The original by Angie Gold was also popular there – it was released in Japan under the title "Suteki na High Energy Boy" (素敵なハイエナジー・ボーイ, Suteki na Hai Enajī Bōi, "Nice High Energy Boy") and spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Oricon's international singles chart in early 1986. [6] The song was also adapted in several languages by other artists in Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

Gold later re-recorded the song with producer Ian Levine for her 1995 compilation album The Best of Angie Gold: Eat You Up. [7] [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Eat You Up"
 
2."Eat You Up (Instrumental)"
  • Kyte
  • Baker
 

Charts

Chart (1985–1986)Peak
position
Japan (Oricon International) [6] 1
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 30

Cover versions

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References

  1. ↑ "Eat You Up (song by Angie Gold) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". Music VF. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Angie Gold - Eat You Up". Ultratop. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Angie Gold Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 "80年代に日本人がカバーして大ヒットした元ネタ洋楽5曲！". OKMusic. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "【オリコン】荻野目洋子「ダンシング・ヒーロー」初のカラオケ首位". 25 June 2024.
  6. 1 2 "オリコンのデータ協力による "全曲、80年代の週間オリコンチャートNo.1" の洋楽コンピが登場！". Sony Music Entertainment Japan. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Levine, Ian (10 January 2009). "Angie Gold - Eat You Up". YouTube . Retrieved 8 December 2019. I mixed "Applause" and produced "Third Finger Left Hand" for Passion, I cut "Right Back In The Middle" for Nightmare and the album, "The Best Of Angie Gold" on Hot, from Miami. She now lives in the Canary Islands. The Divas rule once again. When we did the album in the 1990s, we re-recorded her huge High Energy anthem, "Eat You Up', and here she is performing it.
  8. ↑ The Best of Angie Gold – "Eat You Up" at Discogs
  9. ↑ Yumi Yano: Makin' It at Discogs
  10. 1 2 Yiu-Wai Chu (1 January 2017). Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 86–. ISBN   978-988-8390-58-8.
  11. ↑ "88年最受欢迎DISCO大奖-跳舞街". Tudou . Alibaba Group. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
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