October 1982

6 months after signing a 3 single deal with an album optition to Sire Records. one track by an unknown unseen artist by the name of Madonna starts to be heard across the nation.
The track is named Everybody The single doesn't feature her anywhere on it. The record company claims that Madonna sounds too black and don't want to confuse the record buying public.
It charts at 107 on the Billboard pop charts and hits number 3 on the dance charts.

It is produced by DJ Richard Kaminis
Everybody
I know you've been waiting
Yeah
I've been watching you
Yeah
I know you wanna get up
Yeah
Come on

Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing

Let the music take control
Find a groove and let yourself go
When the room begins to sway
You know what I'm trying to say

Come on take a chance
Get up and start to dance
Let the D.J. shake you
Let the music take you

Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing

Let your body take a ride
Feel the beat and step inside
Music makes the world go 'round
You can turn your troubles upside down

Gonna have to change your mind
Gonna leave your troubles behind
Your body gets the notion
When your feet can make the motion

Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing

Dance and sing get up and do your thing
Dance and sing get up and do your thing
Dance and sing get up and do your thing
Dance and sing get up and do your thing

Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing

Let the music take control
Find a groove and let yourself go
When the room begins to sway
You know what I'm trying to say

Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing
Everybody, come on dance and sing
Everybody, get up and do your thing

http://www.youtube.com/wa...wfJX9hgbZY the rarely seen video
http://www.youtube.com/wa...-3bqmr91is the Virgin Tour
http://www.youtube.com/wa...9_lEdvdV4o the KoKo Club 05
http://www.youtube.com/wa...fDJrbKwZgo complation video

I can't seem to find a video from the Girlie Show
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the song that started it all. i wish she'd perform this more often in her shows. "Music" (it's message anyway) almost seems like the "Everybody" for the 00's. this song is infectious from the 1st note.
love all the versions of this song too. oooh..and don't get me started on the live versions.




i'm going to blast this now.

from wikipedia
"Everybody" is a pop—dance music song written by American singer Madonna as her first single, it later appeared on her debut album, Madonna (1983). It was produced by Mark Kamins, and received a mixed reception from music critics. The song was released as a single in the fall of 1982 (see 1982 in music) and was a top five dance music hit in the United States, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Chart.

The song is Madonna's very first commercially available single. It originally appeared on a four-track demo tape Madonna used in clubs to make a name of her own and ended up being one of the tracks that got her a record contract with Warner's Sire label. "Everybody" was written by Madonna and produced by New York DJ Mark Kamins.

Before landing a recording contract, Madonna used to go to a nightclub in New York City called Danceteria. Mark Kamins was one of the clubs best DJs at the time and was beginning to produce songs. Madonna brought him some of the demos she had recorded with Stephen Bray and Kamis decided to play them at the club. "Everybody" was one of the demos played and it received a great response from the crowd. Kamins, seeing the song's potential, decided to produce it.

The song was released in October 1982, a time when disco was dying out and 80s new wave synth pop was beginning to appear on the music scene. "Everybody" is a simple call to get everyone on the dancefloor: "Everybody, come on, dance and sing. Everybody, get up, do your thing." The song introduced classic Madonna themes like individuality, dancing, and singing as forms of self-expression, as well as the optimism that dominated the first five years of her career. She has performed "Everybody" during The Virgin Tour, The Girlie Show Tour and the promotional tour for the album Confessions On A Dance Floor. The line, "Dance and sing, get up and do your thing" was sampled during the opening bars of "Express Yourself" for The Blond Ambition Tour.

The cover of the single features a colourful collage of the Lower East Side/East Village of New York City drawn by Lou Beach. Since Madonna did not appear on the cover, many believed that she was a black disco singer. In the U.K. the single artwork was radically different from the U.S. The U.K. 12" and 7" vinyl releases featured black and white artwork. The U.K. releases are very rare and have become must have items for Madonna record collectors.

The music video, directed by Ed Steinberg, shows Madonna and a few dancers at Danceteria, the New York club where Madonna used to dance and where the song's demo was first played. Her brother Christopher did the choreography for the video and is featured as a dancer along with Madonna's friend Erica Bell. The budget for the video was only $1500. The video, however, did help to clear up any misunderstanding of what Madonna looked like; the covers for the "Everybody" single led many to assume that she was actually black, since she was not pictured

Everybody" failed to break into the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. but did peak at number 7 on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 Chart which keeps track of singles that are close to breaking into the Top 100. The song spent 8 weeks on the Bubbling Under chart. "Everybody" was Madonna's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Chart, peaking at number 3 and starting her long string of Top 5 hits on the chart. The song remained on the dance charts for 16 weeks. Since its release the single has sold around 250,000 copies. Although it was released in Europe, it failed to break on to any of the charts and only remained a minor dance hit in the US.

Written by Madonna
Produced by Mark Kamins
Engineered by Butch Jones
Synthesizers by Dean Gant, Fred Zarr and Ed Walsh
Electric and acoustic pianos by Dean Gant and Fred Zarr
Guitars by Reggie Lucas and Ira Siegal
Drum programming by Reggie Lucas and Leslie Ming
Tenor saxophone by Bobby Malach
Background vocals by Gwen Guthrie, Norma Jean Wright, Madonna, Brenda White and Chrissy Faith

For You Can Dance:

Additional production and remix by Bruce Forest and Frank Heller
Keyboards by David Cole

Everybody (Album version) (4.55)
Everybody (Alternate Remix) (4.15)
Everybody (Dub version) (8.58)
Everybody (Extended Album version) (6.02)
Everybody (Italian Edit) (6.08)
Everybody (U.K. 12" Dub version) (6.01)
Everybody (U.K. 12" Remix) (6.14)
Everybody (U.K. 7" Dub version) (4.31)
Everybody (U.K. 7" version) (3.13)
Everybody (U.S. 12" version) (6.13)
Everybody (U.S. 7" Edit) (3.54)
Everybody (U.S. 7" Instrumental) (4.15)
Everybody (You Can Dance Full Length-Forrest & Heller Remix) (7:07)
Everybody (You Can Dance-Single Edit) (4.34)


Featured on
Madonna
You Can Dance

The Virgin Tour
Intro to Blonde Ambition
The Girlie Show
and Confessions Promo Tour

ehuffnsd said:

Spanish 1982 7" in textured picture sleeve with unique back cover incl. Edit 3:58 b/w Instrumental 4:15.
& i came across this:



i'd like to hear that one.



spanish not u.k. edit.
[Edited 10/13/06 23:16pm]

ya know...sometimes i wish luv4u would consider all these madonna/janet/mj brainfart of the moment threads "useless" and lock them...


oh snap, did i just type that?

sosgemini said:

why is it "useless"? no different than any other song appreciation thread.


quit drinking your 'hater-ade'


m-f*cker you needz ta step!

oh snap, did i just type that?






yes i did.

CHIC0 said:

papi, my comment had way way way less to do with any single artist (least of being madge)...

but tis okay...

sosgemini said:

sos the Elton John of the org

ehuffnsd said:

it's funny,this is not the first Madonna single I ever heard.The first time I ever heard a Madonna song was in late 1983,the song "Holiday".They played it on our local R&B radio station and I thought it was a black lady singing.

Everybody is one of my favorite Maddonna tracks!!! I thought it came out in 1981...oh well

Private Joy sounds a lot like a Maddonna track...by tha way what songs did Prince produce for Maddonna?



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lonelygurl8305 said:

he co-wrote and co-produced "Love Song" for her.It appears on her 1989 album 'Like A Prayer'.

SoulAlive said:

Ahhhh, see to me, Maddonna never ever sounded black...I dont hear any black in her....now maybe Sheena Easton...Teena Marie...Lisa Stansfield...yes!








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SoulAlive said:

Thanks...did he do anyother songs?

Sheena Easton sounds black?

lonelygurl8305 said:

He played guitar on two other songs from the album: "Keep It Together" and "Act of Contrition" (where his guitar work is played backwards).He also plays guitar on the 12" version of "Like A Prayer",in a very brief segment of the song.

In 1990,he offered Madonna a song called "By Alien Means" but she rejected it.
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[Edited 10/16/06 1:42am]

SoulAlive said:

To me she did...remember the song she did that babyface wrote...the lover in me...well, I thought it was a black woman singing the song...thats just me


http://youtube.com/watch?v=G8-6u7Um3MA
[Edited 10/16/06 2:24am]

lonelygurl8305 said:

you're funny

lonelygurl8305 said:

SoulAlive said:

and she backed out of the project that became Graffti Bridge