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Whigfield
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Whigfield is a Danish singer best known for the song "Saturday Night", a hugely popular single of summer 1994. Born Sannie Charlotte Carlson in Skælskør, Denmark on April 11, 1970, she spent several years in Africa as a child before returning to her native country. She rose to prominence when her single "Saturday Night" became the summer smash hit of 1994, thanks to extensive play in the clubs of the Mediterranean and the fact that it had a dance which many found easy to learn. She became the first ever non-UK artist to debut at No.1 in their first week in the UK Singles Chart. Her music was also very successful in Brazil, Spain, Canada, Australia, France and the Nordic countries during the 1994 eurodance phenomenon.
However the only place where she has yet to achieve success, and has eluded her since, is the United States (Even though she placed both "Saturday Night" and "Another Day" on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1995, with "Night" peaking at #19 and "Day" coming in at #21, respectively).
Later singles include "Think of You", "Close To You", "Last Christmas", "Gimme Gimme" and "Sexy Eyes".
Like Milli Vanilli, Whigfield was accused of not singing her own songs. This was because she did all her live performances lip synching, and she has a high-pitched voice in the recorded tracks. "Saturday Night" was produced by Larry Pignagnoli and Davide Riva, two Italian producers known for a variety of eurodance projects, who usually worked with vocalists such Daniella Galli (better known as Dhany), Annerley Gordon (a.k.a. Ann Lee) and Sandy Chambers. The fact Galli wrote the lyrics to "Saturday Night", and that another Pignagnoli project, Ally & Jo featured a similar voice to Whigfield's but different faces in the CD cover, led to the accusations.
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"Saturday Night" is famous for its characteristic associated dance, which has the unusual feature of looping a pattern of five bar-long steps over an ordinary four-bar cycle of music. The steps are, in order:
- Both arms bent at 90 degrees, elbows held at waist, both pushing to the right then to the left
- Left arm stationary, supporting right elbow, right upper arm twiddles. Then reversed.
- Bend over forwards rolling arms around each other
- Hands on waist, step forwards then backwards
- Four jumps, whilst rotating body gradually by 90 degrees.
The end of the cycle is marked by a clap, and leaves the body facing 90 degrees from the beginning.
These are the different tracklisting over the world of Whigfield's albums including b-sides and megamixes, these are the most common tracklistings
- Whigfield
01 - THINK OF YOU
02 - ANOTHER DAY
03 - DON'T WALK AWAY
04 - BIG TIME
05 - OUT OF SIGHT
06 - CLOSE TO YOU
07 - SEXY EYES
08 - AIN'T IT BLUE
09 - I WANT TO LOVE
10 - SATURDAY NIGHT
- Whigfield II
01 - GIVIN' ALL MY LOVE
02 - NO TEARS TO CRY
03 - BABY BOY
04 - TENDERLY
05 - WHAT WE'VE DONE FOR LOVE
06 - LOVER
07 - GIMME GIMME
08 - WHIGGY WHIGGLE
09 - FOREVER ON MY MIND
10 - THROUGH THE NIGHT
11 - SUMMER SAMBA
12 - SATURDAY NIGHT '97
13 - LAST CHRISTMAS
14 - RICK'S MEGAMIX
- Whigfield III
01 - BE MY BABY
02 - MUCH MORE
03 - UNBELIEVABLE
04 - LOST IN YOU
05 - MAKIN' MY DAY
06 - OUTSIDE
07 - UPON A STAR
08 - ALL YOUR LOVE
09 - MI AMOR
10 - WAITIN' FOR SATURDAY
11 - DOO-WHOP
12 - WHIGFIELD MEGAMIX
- Whigfield IV (Later released in 2004 as WAS A TIME with bonus summer single WAS A TIME and bonus DVD
01 - GOTTA GETCHA
02 - AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL
03 - BEEP BEEP
04 - BOYS BOYS BOYS
05 - FANTASY
06 - CANDY
07 - I KNEW BEFORE
08 - MY LOVE'S GONE
09 - GET GET GET
10 - TAKE ME TO THE SUMMERTIME
11 - OUTSIDE LIFE (Remix of Outside from WHIGFIELD III)
12 - WELCOME TO FUN
13 - MY MY
14 - EVERY SINGLE DAY AND NIGHT
15 - TOMORROW
Greatest Remix Hits (Australia)
01. Saturday Night (Abigails Party Remix)
02. Was A Time (Favretto Remix)
03. Gimme Gimme (American Cut)
04. Think Of You (David Remix)
05. No Tears To Cry (Original Extended)
06. Sexy Eyes (David's Epic Experience)
07. Givin' All My Lovin' (Alesis Extended Mix)
08. Gotta Getcha (Extended)
09. Much More (Dj Nukk Extended)
10. Whigfield Megamix
11. Close To You (Downtown Remix)
12. Doo-Whop (Rivaz Tune Club)
13. Gimme Gimme (Original Vox Extended)
14. Was A Time (Yagor Mix)
plus DVD with all videos incl. "Was A Time"
Dance With Whigfield (Megamix, Germany)
01. Was A Time
02. Sexy Eyes
03. Saturday Night
04. Gotta Getcha
05. Another Day
06. Waitin' For Saturday
07. Tomorrow
08. Be My Baby
09. I Want To Love
10. Much More
11. Think Of You
12. Summer Samba
Waiting For Saturday Night - Her Greatest Hits (Germany)
01. Saturday Night
02. Another Day
03. Sexy Eyes
04. Summer Samba
05. Through The Night
06. Be My Baby
07. Doo-Whop
08. Gotta Getcha
09. Amazing & Beautiful
10. Get Get Get
11. My My
12. Tenderly
13. Close To You
14. Tomorrow
15. Waiting For Saturday
Greatest Hits (México)
01. Saturday Night
02. Sexy Eyes
03. Another Day
04. Think Of You
05. Big Time
06. Much More
07. No Tears To Cry
08. Be My Baby
09. Baby Boy
10. Gimme Gimme
11. Tu Seras Mi Baby
12. Doo-Whop
13. Making My Day
14. Whigfield Megamix
Singles released at different times in different countries - these are the main release years
SATURDAY NIGHT (1994)
ANOTHER DAY (1994)
THINK OF YOU (1995)
CLOSE TO YOU (1995)
BIG TIME / LAST CHRISTMAS (1995)
SEXY EYES (1996)
I WANT TO LOVE (Only in selected countries) (1996)
MEGAMIX (1996)
GIMME GIMME (1996)
BABY BOY / SATURDAY NIGHT '97 (1997)
NO TEARS TO CRY (1997)
GIVIN' ALL MY LOVE (1998)
SEXY EYES REMIXES (1998)
BE MY BABY (1999)
DOO-WHOP (2000)
MUCH MORE (2000)
GOTTA GETCHA (2002)
AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL / MY MY (2002)
SATURDAY NIGHT 2003 (2003)
WAS A TIME (2004)
There are also singles of "Amazing and Beautiful", "Another Day", "Baby Boy", "Be My Baby", "Close To You", "Doo Whop", "Gimme Gimme", "Givin' All My Love", "Gotta Getcha", "Much More", "No Tears To Cry", "Saturday Night", "Sexy Eyes", "Think Of You", "Waiting For Saturday", and "Was A Time". There have been over twenty remixes released of "Saturday Night".
The artist Black Duck recorded the song WHiggle In Line borrowing heavily from "Saturday Night". "Whiggle In Line" enjoyed modest popularity in the US, and appears on several compilations of dance music.
In 2005, Sannie appeared on the Benassi Bros album 'Phobia' writing and singing vocals on 2 songs, 'Feel Alive' and 'Rocket In The Sky'. Sannie choose to record these under the name 'NAAN' and also used that name to record 'Come A Little Closer, and 'Yes U Are' with European DJ 'Favretto'. Sannie also wrote the lyrics for 'Its Summertime' performed by spanish singer Katla which was released October, 2005.
Sannie is still currently involved in writing, producing and recording. Most recently she wrote the lyrics for the hit 'Whos Your Daddy' performed by Benny Benassi. 'Feel Alive' was also released in spring 2006 however the vocals on the released version are performed by Sandy.
To the date, her song "Doo Whop" seems to be her last successful song worldwide. It was a hit in many countries like Mexico and Venezuela, where it was published on some dance music compilations.