Bananarama ~ Cruel Summer 1983 Disco Purrfection Version
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2020
- Is there a forecast for a long, hot cruel summer in 2020?
I had so many requests to do this one and it finally happened in 27 minutes after four years of your patience. I have always loved this song the Swain-Jolley sound. Kelly Marie had a song called "Love Trial" and then I heard Imagination's "Just An Illusion" and knew I had a new favorite production team. One thing they had in common was the Phil Spectorish wall of sound that is effectively oppressive here the sonic equivalent of the heat of steamy summer night with that funky ass bass makes me wanna get up and dance. It still drives me crazy! I never realized how much of a reggae influence there was here.
Our story starts in 1979 when Siobhan Fahey, Sarah Dallin and Keren Wood formed Bananarama. Dallin and Wood were schoolmates and moved to London together. Once there, Dallin met Siobhan and the three women became fast friends.
They pestered Siobhan's sister's boyfriend to persuade his boss who ran Demon Records to record a demo of "Aie A Mwana" a cover of a song by Black Blood. At this point they agreed on the name Bananarama since "it projected fun and lightheartedness". I could not agree more.
The women were working hard at making music, doing well in the UK and not so much in the US until their
song "Cruel Summer" was included in the hugely successful "The Karate Kid" movie from 1984. It peaked at #9 on the Hot100 and #11 on the disco chart paving the way for "Venus"...but that is another remix and story...
![Venus [Extended Version]](/img/n.gif)
Still as fresh as it was 41 years ago! Absolutely timeless
One of the truly vintage songs of the 80's.
38 years later, this Bananarama song's still timeless and should be the starter tune for every new summer that begins.
This really came out in spring of '84, though it was produced in very late '83.
@Mickey
I listen to the song regularly, so it's always summer, but now that it's getting warmer it's a very special song for me, greetings from Berlin.
@@Tommi6810 Greetings to you Thomas from Canada (Scarborough) and Happy St. Patrick's Day also!
Facts this MF Spittin'
Trust me my on and off fiancé is 42 and I may be 21 yr ol guy but it’s still aged like fine wine every time I hear it with her
This song is not from this world, 80s with a ghettoblaster on the way to a lake, goosebumps, and wet eyes now, thx.🙏❤️😎🌞
Cruel. Summer. Bañanarama. Ya. It. Was a. Cruel summer I've. had. Better. I. Mean. leaving me here. On mine own..
Your right bro, not of this world, especially this disco purrifcation, what memories!
A aa
@@denisefields7233❤❤
I first heard this in Aunt Ginger’s 1984 Mercury Grand Marquis in the summer of 85. The car was going through an automatic car wash. I can still feel those velour seats and navy blue interior/exterior. Air conditioner was on. I was in matching short shorts and a tank top. If you were a child of the 80s you know what they look like. Great dance song. Summer can be cruel.
She may have been your aunt, but the Mercury Grand Marquis was THE grandpa car.
Damn if only it were then still :(
We have a cruel summer ahead of us in 2020, I'm afraid
I live on the sea with a lovely beach, but its damned cold🥶
Spammer zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
F....yeah
What Summer?!
@@qwj68boots Right cuz did he know something we didn't...lol!
I’m 61 and the 80’s were the best decade of my life..sure do miss it.
This song always been dope to me! Since the 80's, the greatest decade of music💯💯💯💯💯
How many cruel summers will it take..
Reciprocity.
👣🎧🖤🎼🖤💋
Grazie per la condivisione👏👏una canzone intramontabile🔝🔝🧡
This group made great and still makes great records!!! Long live Bananarama!!!
This song never gets old and its still fresh after 37 years.
Aw, to be 37 again!
@@jgrysiak6566 LOL!
@@jgrysiak6566 I'm 25 and sprained my back. Currently visiting the realm of old age.
To live in 83 again as a young man would be great. No culture war. No foreign people. Decency and fun work family friends and no NWO! Hell yes I will go back.
Nice comment. 😎
I was 14 when this song came out
& it's just as good now as it was
back then.Every summer from that
time 2 now has been anything but
cruel when this song pops on 👍
I love the original, this is awesome.
Such a cool smooth classy track & remix also ! That song hasn't lost any of its excitement and magic over those now unbelievably FOURTY !!!!! years....😍 That has been exactly the time when i moved as (almost) a teen with my parents from Germany to the Persian Gulf (Bahrain), where my Dad had a job down there for about 1.5 yrs. [ I went to (Bahrain) School of course ]. Thx to Radio Bahrain, which is still there and funnily had the same frequency (96.5 FM) back in the days like BFBS Germany, which i also loved 😘, i could still continue listening to hot US and British music 'n' charts.
Fantastic (beach) time !
Thank you...still have the '45 single! Love....
Has the Summer of 2020 been a "Cruel Summer?" Still digging' this track from when I used to watch the video when I was stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska from 1982 to 1985! Still got me Shaking My Head! Can't Help It! Don't want to help it! No medical assistance needed! Just the De Lorean Time Machine!
I was stationed there 1979-1980 (Eielson AFB) Saw recent pictures...base has sure changed!
@@symphonyxXx I would sometimes go there just to play basketball. Also, I once caught a HOP from there (December, 1984) to K.I. Sawyer AFB but we had to stop, do a drop-off at Plattsburg AFB in New York first. That flight was long and the fuselage within the belly of the KC 10 was just plain cold. Cost me only $10 though. And then some $90 to catch a twin engine turbo prop plane on Republic Airlines to Detroit. After the Holidays, I flew back to Fairbanks via the comfort of civilian jetliners. That one way ticket cost me over $700.
I had a great time in Alaska and soon, hope to travel there again. I left there during August of 1985.
@@virgilwyatt4632 I remember driving on Richardson Hiway, outside of Eielson AFB, in winter and a moose the size of a house crossed the road in front of us..biggest damn thing I've ever seen! If we had hit him, he'd be OK, but our Bronco would be wiped out! Man... so many years ago.
My late husband got me to love this song. I think he would've really appreciated this version. Thank you DJDiscoCat :)
My wife Penny and I would dance to this song as well as others. It looks like we all have good taste in music.
Little did I know how cruel the summer would truly be. She passed away May 2020. I miss her so much. But life goes on.
Ghost Busters movie brought me here awesome year 1984 was!
My wife & i with some friends dancing in the lounge room all in our mid 50’s.Where did the years go.
Hi.dj disco 🐱 I have your channel I like this song I will put his in my library so keep the songs coming your no.1 fan
Thanks for taking me back to my teenage years!! I absolutely love it ❣💋
Same. I was 12 in summer 1983. Nice memories!
Me2😎
Still a tune almost 40 years later.
Hottest girl band of the 80's!!
Better days ahead fantastic summers to come bring it on ! Groove on down and chase your blues away
My favorite B'rama song was I Heard a Rumor ... "Who needs friends who never show? ..." what a great opening lyric!
Mines Too!
They had so many hits, but "Cruel Summer" will always be my favorite...so moody and exciting!
@@DJDiscoCatlove them all!!! Love Robert de Niro so much, though. Great girls who are still kicking it today!
I wish I was a teen in the 80s.
You don't have to have grew up in the 80's to enjoy the music. Just listening and enjoying it makes you a 80's baby!
It was amazing! The music, the hair, the clothes... totally awesome.
As was I, but you got to grow up in the late 60's. I wish I was there.
It really was so much fun, going through high school and college in the 80's, I really had no idea at the time how really amazing it was until later in life! Don't take good times for granted!
At the beginning of the 80's I was in 5th grade and at the end I was a sophomore in college. I'll always love 80's music!
Love it. Gets in your head and remains there. Remember this back in the day. Happy tune and people were more United and genuine back then. Unlike now.!!
I miss the 80s
rockybudgeboa so do I.
THE gold years !!! Ba'nsai ✊miyagui Do karate 🥋
Masterpiece, ( Sara Dallin ) my favorite Bananarama singer, late 80's, Karate Kid coming on🌹😘😎
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IT WAS FRESH THEN AND STILL IS
STILL LOVE IT
Very nice remix 80S forever
Could just listen to the drum transition beats ( fills) all day long 🥁🥁🥁♥️♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻 Epic song :)
You Out did yourself !!!
This Time , I will never admit to this. . I love to sing with this song in my car turned up LOUD!!! You are the MAN . . Thank You 😉
Was gonna write something, but I couldn't agree more with last year's previous comment! It says it all!
THANK YOU! A hit from when it 1st hit the airwaves.
Having a cruel summer myself. At least I found this banger.
Fantastic sound! I was 20 years young in '83 and my little boy was 1 year young. He and I kind of grew up together listening to this sound. We both loved "Karate Kid" as well. Fun times and good memories. Love you Nick!
Yeah it was a cruel summer 1983 when God gave me a baby girl love that song
Thank you DJ disco cat
Another Great mix - ah! the summer of 1983...my 16th summer...played this all the way through it...
This really came out in May or June of '84.
@@ScorpioBornIn69 yep... Sumner of 84 and on The Karate Kid Soundtrack
Great MIx... Great driving music!!
I remember this song from Karate kid with Ralph Macchio
Sticky, hot, hazy.... Manhattan summers can be cruel and these ladies only heat it up even more!
Try here in Florida where it's a cruel summer for at least 8 months of the year.
This song is about to get extremely popular again.
Loving all these 80s songs! Keep them coming!!
It just seemed that the Memorial Day (US) Victoria Day (CAN) weekend was perfect for an 80's music set.
C'est pour moi le meilleur titre de ce groupe et en plus écrit et produit par Tony Swain et Steve Jolley ,compositeurs et producteurs du groupe Imagination, Spandau Ballet entre autres.
I was so coked up this was the only music I could understand
wow bow wow! Fantastic HOT Version, Thanks!
Thanks for another great uplifting song DiscoCat! Sending you Love from Ohio, USA!
Mon freaking Dieu...we're just about to conclude the 40th ANNIVERSARY of this fantastic track from the '80s, that also featured heavily in one of my favourite films of all-time, "The Karate Kid", the 40th anniversary of which begins next year, 2024...& I turned 50 a week ago, dammit! Times flies by so freaking quickly, doesn't it?!
The boy's are all right this Crue Summer, we're stay in shelter in place being safe 😷 shelter in 🏠 place, Just taking care of ourselves and having a good Summer 2020, there will be other " Crue Summer ok ☮️ love u
This was fantastic. Great remix.
Eternallyoung. this Song😍
Love this song!! Great job once again!!
Great song! Another great from the Cat.
The Summer In The UK In 1983 Was " Far From Being Cruel " For Me At least!! I Was Young And " In love " And This Is One Of The Records That Will " Always Resurrect That Particular Epoch Of My life !! " Thankyou DJ Cat For " Purrfecting Your " Musical Magic " Once More " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
Grreat👌
Another great one, thanks! Your remixes keep me dancing and smiling during these dark and difficult days. Be well out there friends.
Picturing the cop dancing on the roof at the end! all's well that ends well
This is awesome...a classic radio cut stretched out to nearly 12 minutes, really extending out the jam here. That 80s bass line is really jumpin
I was in the 11th grade at Artesia high school I would be at the pizzeria place in the city of Lakewood California playing pinball the eighties music was so very special and the people too.
Saw Bananarama live last year. They were amazing!
Saw them in LA! They were great!
Arent they like, grannies by now? Lol.
@@itsmedante.5325 So is Madonna and you'll be a granny one day too, just wait!
@@AxlAXwell said!! They are all awesome ladies and still brilliant!! I think being a granny is something many will hope to be some day!! 💯👏👏😉🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🎶❤️More💜Than 🖤Beautiful🤎
💛 Amazing💚 Fabulous 💙
🧡Perfecto🖤🤍 Dance, ✝️
🖤Friends💙& Music.♥️🎶
Enjoy Be Thankful...♥️🦋♥️
Love it, Love it, Love it!
Awesome work yet again.
Fucking wild this song is 40 years old now.
never never never gets old
You are so good at the mixes! Nobody better, hands down!
Indudablemente un súper Tema Musical de los años 80's! Espectacular e inolvidable ! ✨🎆🎵🎤🎛️📀👍💃🕺🎧💃🕺🎹💖💃🕺
La mejor música de la historia esta en la década de los 80s :)
Heard this at John Collins Fair at weekend on Waltzers cant get is out of my head since,banging tune.
I had just returned from what was then West Germany the year this song came out. Very well done, DiscoCat!!!!! A classic of the 1980s indeed. I hope "Venus" is next on the menu. Pleeeeeease?
That on is a little tricky...but have been working on the Venus remix for a few years now...hopefully it will come together soon!
I wished wish I could have gone to East Germany Germany 🇩🇪 a lol (!
@@DJDiscoCat have you done kkeool and, the Gang dj - &?
@@mdmac5139 Yeah and you'd never have made it out of there.
@@thomastarwater6035 Lol ! Those were the days in DDR, housing and jobs for everybody,guaranteed by the State.....Angela Merkel was well raised and educated, she can't complain.....DDR = Wunderbar lol
Ich Liebe !
Classic. Show. Very good.
When it's 100' and the humidity is 75% in the southern usa....its Hella hot!
I'm 1996 born I'm in mad love with this song of banarama of cruel summer 🤗🤗 from myself who is from india 🇮🇳😘😘😘🇺🇲🇺🇲
excelent REWORK - CRUEL SUMMER´VERY GOOD
Oh YES "Venus" please, Purrrfect!!
BELLA INFINITAMENTE BELLA ❤
U R Huge DiscoCat💐🎼than u
More than music!!
Oh yes! So 80's i hear this song and in my mind appears the beach scene from Karate Kid!!!! 😍
Great job !!! Thanks
Marimba Madness!
Jeu neu peu pas oublier les années 80 une très bonne année inoubliable 😆😆😆😆😎😎😎😎👌👍👍🖒🖒💣💣💣💣❤❤❤
When winter ends.
Hey . . Just had to tell you at a time, when everything seems so depressing . . You bring a smile and light in a dark Day ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Super!Thx DJDC!
@DJDiscoCat: Simply fantastic! You have the groove man and the taste to pick the right music for a remix. I often want a song to last longer because it makes so much fun. And I also like the backgound infos you provide. Great job! Greetings from Germany.
Man you read my mind. I was hopeing that you remix this song and you did it. Great job like always.
Sooooooo good !!!
This song is just great. I prefer Thrash and death metal music but this is awesome every i time i hear this. The beats, baselines, the vocals, everything is just cool. THX.
👍 extended version !
Saludos !! excelente !! gracias por compartir....subiendo volumen....
Still loving this, DJ DiscoCat!
“Hey this school sucks man” ... Famous words of Daniel Laruso 😂😂😂
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* The truth does not die, nor gets old...
I was in High School when this song was released! I remember the Movie The Karate Kid (when Daniel was getting his butt Kicked at the Beach!), they played this song.
Thanks for the Upload!
It's played on Daniel's first day of school. "The Ride" by Matches played when Johnny destroyed the boombox; the music for the fight was part of Bill Conti's score.
Seeing these talented hotties in
their overalls brings me right back
2 the 80s(NYC)when overalls was
the trend in a lot of the clubs!😛👍
Brilliantly Done 👀
Magique musique 🤩
Canal é top👏👏👏🏆