Hot Hot Hot (Arrow song)

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"Hot Hot Hot"
Arrow Hot Hot Hot.jpg
Single by Arrow
from the album Hot Hot Hot
Released19 June 1983
Recorded31 December 1982
Genre
Length7:08
Label Chrysalis
Songwriter(s) Alphonsus Cassell
Producer(s) Leston Paul
Arrow singles chronology
"Soca Rhumba"
(1981)
"Hot Hot Hot"
(1983)
"Long Time"
(1984)

"Hot Hot Hot" is a song written and first recorded by Montserratian musician Arrow, featured on his 1982 studio album, Hot Hot Hot. [1] The song was a commercially successful dance floor single, with cover versions subsequently released by artists in several countries, including in 1987 by American singer Buster Poindexter. The song was Arrow's first chart hit, peaking at No. 59 on the UK Singles Chart. A remix of the song, dubbed as the "World Carnival Mix '94" was later released in 1994 and peaked higher than the original, at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.

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Charts

Chart (1984)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [2] 59
Chart (1994) 1Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 38
UK Dance Chart 15
ARIA Charts 9

Notes:

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [3] Gold35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Buster Poindexter version

"Hot Hot Hot"
Hot Hot Hot Buster.jpg
Single by Buster Poindexter
from the album Buster Poindexter
Released19 June 1987
Recorded22 November 1986
Length4:07
Label RCA Records
Songwriter(s) Alphonsus Cassell
Producer(s) David Johansen
Buster Poindexter singles chronology
"Hot Hot Hot"
(1987)
"Cannibal"
(1988)
Music video
"Hot Hot Hot" on YouTube

The song was covered in 1987 by American singer David Johansen, as his lounge singer persona Buster Poindexter, and released as the first single from his album Buster Poindexter . It garnered extensive airplay through radio, MTV, and other television appearances.

A music video was produced for Johansen's version of the song, in which he appears both as Buster Poindexter and as himself. The video begins with Johansen mentioning his role as the frontman for the 1970s proto-punk band New York Dolls, showing the band's albums and tossing them aside while talking about the "really outrageous clothes" he wore and how he came to be interested in a "refined and dignified kind of a situation", which leads into the song.

In an interview on National Public Radio, Johansen called the tune "the bane of my life," [4] owing to its pervasive popularity as a karaoke and wedding song.

Charts

Chart (1987–1989) [5] Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)27
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 45
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 11

Pat and Mick version

In 1993, English pop duo Pat and Mick released their version as a single which peaked at No. 47 on the UK Singles Chart. [6] It is from their sole album Don't Stop Dancin', also released in 1993.

Don Omar version

In 2013, reggaeton artist Don Omar released a cover titled "Feeling Hot" for his live album Hecho en Puerto Rico. [7] His version peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States. [8] Omar's cover led to Arrow posthumously winning the ASCAP Latin Award in the Urban category. [9]

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