C+C Music Factory Songs - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) Lyrics

C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

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Album: Gonna Make You Sweat
Released: 1991

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) Lyrics

Everybody dance now
Everybody dance now
Give me the music
Give me the music
Everybody dance now
Everybody dance now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Everybody dance now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Everybody dance now

Here is the dome, back with the bass
The jam is live in effect and I don't waste time
On the mike with a dope rhyme
Jump to the rhythm jump jump to the rhythm jump
And I'm here to combine
Beats and lyrics to make your shake your pants
Take a chance, come on and dance
Guys grab a girl, don't wait, make her twirl
It's your world and I'm just a squirrel
Trying to get a nut to move your butt
To the dance floor, so yo what's up
Hands in the air, come on say yeah,
Everybody over here everybody over there
The crowd is live and I pursue this groove
Party people in the house
Move (let your mind)
Move (put me online)

[Chorus]

Come on let's sweat, baby
Let the music take control
Let the rhythm move you
Sweat, sweat
Let the music take control
Let the rhythm move you
Everybody dance now
Da da da da
Da da da da
Da da da da, da da da
Da da da da, da da da
La da da da
La da da da
Dumb da dumb da dumb
Everybody dance now

Pause take a breath and go for yours
On my command now hit the dance floor
It's gonna make you sweat till you bleed
Is that dope enough, indeed
I paid the price, I control the dice
I'm more precise, to the point I'm nice
The music takes control, your heart and soul
Unfold, your body is free and a whole
Dance till you can't, dance
Till you can't dance no more
Get on the floor and get raw
Then come back and upside down
Easy now, let me see ya
Move (let your mind)
Move (put me online)
The music is my life
Everybody dance now
Everybody dance now
Everybody dance now
Everybody

[Chorus]

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, FREEDOM / CLIVILLES, ROBERT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Martha Wash sang on this, providing the powerful line, "Everybody Dance Now!" She was a member of The Weather Girls ("It's Raining Men") and provided vocals for the group Black Box. She was overweight and not very photogenic, so she was replaced in the video by a slender singer/model named Zelma Davis, who lip-synched her lines. Wash's name didn't make the initial album credits either. After some legal wrangling, she was given proper credit for her contribution. In the credits in the video for the song, this line was included: "Additional vocals by Martha Wash, visualized by Zelma Davis."

This wasn't the first time Martha was whitewashed - she sang on three #1 Dance hits for the act Black Box, and was replaced in those videos by a model. Wash sued both the Black Box and C+C producers, reaching a settlement that included a record deal as a solo artist.

C+C Music Factory were the US production and remix duo David Cole and Robert Clivilles. This was their first single under the C+C name, but they already had made hits with the Cover Girls and Seduction. David Cole died of meningitis in 1995.

According to Robert Clivilles, Martha Wash was asked to join the group but refused because she wanted to focus on being an R&B singer. He says she was replaced by Zelma Davis in the video because Davis was the main female voice in the group (if not this song), appearing on eight songs on the album.

The second choice for the "Everybody Dance Now" hook line was Jocelyn Brown, who can be heard singing "I've got the power" on the "The Power ," a 1990 hit for Snap!