C+C Music Factory

A song is worth, ah, ah no
Ah, a picture is worth a million and one songs
Now a million pictures, no

A song is worth a million pictures
But a song must be worth a million pictures also
Because we've got this song here
And it's worth a million pictures

And we wrote this song
And you should just listen to it
You can almost just picture the million pictures that we have
'Cause it's got more than a million words in it

And we wrote this song
'Cause we didn't have the camera
To take the pictures
So listen to this

David Cole and Robert Civilles met while both working at a New York underground club. Before forming C & C Music Factory, they were primarily remixers, co-writers, producers and artist managers – having worked with Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Fleetwood Mac, Grace Jones, Seduction and others.

Cole & Civilles decided to launch their own music project with an ever-changing cast of vocalists. When an artist they were managing turned down the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”, the duo decided to use it as their first single. They recruited a janitor from Quad Recording Studio who was learning to become an assistant engineer named Freedom Williams to perform the raps, and hired ex-Weather Girls singer Martha Wash for the female vocals – but credited them to Zelma Davis. Davis also appeared in the song’s video. Wash later sued for being uncredited in the song and its video.

The song became an international smash, reaching the top 5 in nine countries (taking the top position in five of them). Their debut album was released a month after the single and it reached #2 in the US, #8 in the UK and the top 30 in six other countries.

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