Video: Dee Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

A coworker was singing "Groove is in the Heart" around the office today, which is one of the best uses of slide whistle (among other things) in pop music. But what's its competition, you ask? Vernon Burch, "Get Up," slide whistle break at about 2:30. Thanks this guy (who also has other fun facts on his blog)! Oh, and also, according to this guy , who breaks down Deee-Lite's samples, this is where [...]

Every year before CMJ I like to make up a wish list of bands to see. I usually ignore it completely and end up going wherever's close to the club where I start the evening and/or where my friends end up going. Around Thursday, I realize that I don't really want to stay out until 4 a.m. five days in a row. Around Saturday, I'm desperate to hear anything remotely familiar (too much new music at once gives me "listener's ear"), and it's only out of a strong sense of obligation to the struggling bands and loyalty to the underdog [...]

I almost never listen to the radio. Not out of any sort of musical snobbery (well, maybe a little). But mainly, I don't listen because I'm an album sort of a guy. But every now and then, a moment will come along that reminds me why I loved the radio so much when I was a younger. Yesterday, in particular, was one of those instances, as I flipped on the radio for the first time in a long while, to fortuitously hear one of the my favorite pop songs of all time, Dee- Lite's "Grove is in the Heart" [...]

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