Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)

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"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"
The Artful Dodger - Re-rewind.jpg
Single by Artful Dodger featuring Craig David
from the album It's All About the Stragglers
Released29 November 1999 (1999-11-29)
Genre UK garage [1]
Length4:02
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Mark Hill
  • Pete Devereux
Artful Dodger singles chronology
"Movin' Too Fast"
(1999)		"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"
(1999)		"Movin' Too Fast"
(2000)
Craig David singles chronology
"What Ya Gonna Do"
(1998)		"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"
(1999)		"Fill Me In"
(2000)

"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)" is a song by English garage duo Artful Dodger, featuring Craig David on vocals. Released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 1999, the song reached number two, giving both Artful Dodger and David their first chart hit. In his dean's list for the annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice named "Re-Rewind" the fifth-best single of the year. [2]

Contents

Background

The melody in the verses was lifted from an older Craig David demo called "Last Night", which was re-recorded for his debut studio album, Born to Do It . A slightly different version of the song, simply titled "Rewind", was featured on Born to Do It and was credited solely to Craig David. "Re-Rewind" is notable for being the first record signed by influential label Relentless Records and as such the first one to establish the imprint as a pioneering force within mainstream music. [3]

In February 2016, David revealed that, after the recording session, the song was nearly lost forever: "We finished the song and dubbed it onto a little TDK D90 cassette to go and play it in the car," he says. "It sounded good but there was a couple of little tweaks we wanted to do – and literally as [producer Mark Hill] turned the computer on, all we saw was this 'error, file number' message. The only way to get rid of it was to press OK. So we pressed OK, and it kept coming up with new error numbers. So we'd press OK, press OK, press OK. But when we looked at the session, all that we saw was the hi-hats. I was like, 'are you actually for real?' So that plastic TDK tape became gold dust. We had the whole song on there, and we had to use the recording as our reference, playing it very carefully so it didn't get chewed up, and trying to remember all the things we did. And that was 'Re-Rewind'." [4]

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [29] Platinum600,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [30]
Craig David solo version 		Silver200,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref(s).
United Kingdom29 November 1999
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [29] [31]
Australia6 March 2000CD [32]
United States16 May 2000 [33] [34]

It is from this song that Leigh Francis's Channel 4 comedy series Bo' Selecta! took its name. [35]

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Artful Dodger was originally a UK garage duo featuring songwriters and producers Mark Hill and Pete Devereux. They achieved notoriety in the 1990s and early 2000s, releasing seven consecutive singles all of which charted in the United Kingdom Top 20. During this period, the then-unknown Craig David was featured on the track "Re-Rewind". The single launched David's career, landing at #2 in the UK singles chart. Hill and Devereux won numerous accolades, including the 2000 UK Producers of the Year and Ivor Novello recognition for their songwriting.

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