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Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 15 December 2012. Loleatta Holloway's music has been featured on 55 episodes.

Loleatta Holloway (November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.

She began gospel singing with her mother in the Holloway Community Singers and she has also recorded with Albertina Walker in The Caravans gospel group. Holloway was also a cast member of the Chicago troupe of Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope.

Holloway found moderate disco success when she placed eighteen songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including four Number ones, and was featured on Dan Hartman's disco classic, "Vertigo / Relight My Fire". In the early 1980s, she had another dance hit with "Crash Goes Love", before she had her first Number one in the UK with "Ride On Time" by Black Box, which featured vocal samples from her own Salsoul recording, "Love Sensation". This happened again in 1991 when Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featured her vocals in the chart topping cover version of the song "Good Vibrations". Although both songs were notorious for initial copyright infringements (see: white label), they did help elevate Holloway to legendary status in the dance music/disco community.

A more recent dance chart entry was "Relight My Fire" (credited to Martin featuring Loleatta Holloway), which hit #5 in 2003.

Her latest hit "Love Sensation '06" peaked at #22 in the Dutch Top 40[1] and reached #37 on the UK Singles Chart as well as #49 in Australia.

Holloway died on March 21, 2011 from heart failure. She was 64 years old. She is survived by her four children.

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Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 15 December 2012. Loleatta Holloway's music has been featured on 55 episodes.

Loleatta Holloway (November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.

She began gospel singing with her mother in the Holloway Community Singers and she has also recorded with Albertina Walker in The Caravans gospel group. Holloway was also a cast member of the Chicago troupe of Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope.

Holloway found moderate disco success when she placed eighteen songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including four Number ones, and was featured on Dan Hartman's disco classic, "Vertigo / Relight My Fire". In the early 1980s, she had another dance hit with "Crash Goes Love", before she had her first Number one in the UK with "Ride On Time" by Black Box, which featured vocal samples from her own Salsoul recording, "Love Sensation". This happened again in 1991 when Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featured her vocals in the chart topping cover version of the song "Good Vibrations". Although both songs were notorious for initial copyright infringements (see: white label), they did help elevate Holloway to legendary status in the dance music/disco community.

A more recent dance chart entry was "Relight My Fire" (credited to Martin featuring Loleatta Holloway), which hit #5 in 2003.

Her latest hit "Love Sensation '06" peaked at #22 in the Dutch Top 40[1] and reached #37 on the UK Singles Chart as well as #49 in Australia.

Holloway died on March 21, 2011 from heart failure. She was 64 years old. She is survived by her four children.

Original source Last.fm

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Stand Up (Pangaea's Mix)
Loleatta Holloway (K. McAuley, Pangaea mix)
Salsoul Records2017
Casanova
Loleatta Holloway
Aware1975
Love Sensation
Loleatta Holloway
Gold Mind Records1980
Stand Up (Pangaea Mix)
Loleatta Holloway
HADAL2017
Catch Me On The Rebound
Loleatta Holloway
Gold Mind Records1978
Can't Let You Go (Louie Vega Truth Dub 1)
Loleatta Holloway
Vega Records2017
The Greatest Performance Of My Life
Loleatta Holloway
Gold Mind Records1979
Cry To Me
Loleatta Holloway
Aware1975
Rebound
Loleatta Holloway (Rahaan, Zernell mix)
Grimy Edits2013
Loleatta On Acid
Fatherhood feat. Loleatta Holloway
Clubwerks2015