Name that Tune! (PLEASE!)

[Wilse]

As soon as I try to imagine that vocal I get "You Got The Love" mental block.

I do have a nagging feeling that I'll have heard it though.

[Wilse]

CannonFodder wrote:

Wilse wrote:
As soon as I try to imagine that vocal I get "You Got The Love" mental block.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not you too Wilse! :-o :-( ;-)

Hmmm.... I never said it was originally by the Source.

On the other hand, I don't believe it was originally by JP either.

My understanding is the vocal was lifted from the soundtrack Candi Staton did for a weight loss video.  ;-)

[Wilse]

This aricle appears to agree:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1737687,00.html

Having played concerts in Britain since, she now knows what a massive impact her voice made when the Source's version of You Got the Love went top 10 in 1991, but at the time she had no idea she had even recorded such a song. "They were calling my house saying I had a number one record in England, and I said, 'What song? I haven't released any song.' When they told me it was You Got the Love, I said I'd never made a record called that. Then I got off the phone and realised - it was the one from the diet video! Which was never supposed to be put on a record at all." Staton's laughter grows the more she explains it. The soundtrack to a thousand raves, with its spiritual lines, "Sometimes I feel like saying Lord I just don't care/ But you've got the love I need to see me through" was recorded as the anthem for a film about the world's fattest man on his conquest to shed a tonne.

"He was the biggest guy I ever saw. He couldn't wear underwear, he had to wear tents. When he lost a couple of hundred pounds he was so proud, he called me and said; 'Candi, I've bought my first pair of drawers!' When they took him to Nassau, to go on this Bahamian diet, they had to clear the front row of first class just to get him on the plane. They had to forklift him into it."

Staton agreed to record a song the programme-makers had planned for her and, as they couldn't afford to pay her, they gave her half the publishing and copyright - a move she would come to appreciate when the royalty cheques started rolling in years later. She says she still didn't get all her dues when it first entered the UK charts, and she had to involve an attorney. "The English releases can't rip me off any more - hopefully," she says now. She still has that diet video somewhere in her basement, and her eyes glow wildly at the suggestion that it could make her a fortune on eBay.

So, no need to get angry anymore, sir.   ;-)