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C+C Music Factory
Also known as Clivillés + Cole, MVP
Genre(s) Dance-pop
Label(s) Atlantic Records, MCA Records

C+C Music Factory was a dance music production group (led by Robert Clivillés and David Cole) distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop crossover hits, one of which "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" reached #1 on Billboards Hot 100 Singles & R&B Singles charts. The group also released singles and albums under alternate names (a.o. Clivillés + Cole); the last offspring was called MVP. Robert Clivillés and David Cole also produced various hits for other artists: Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Deborah Cooper and others.

C+C Music Factory earned a total of 35 music industry awards worldwide, including five Billboard Awards, five American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards and in 1993 they won the Grammy Award for Original Soundtrack Album for Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack. This specific award is presented to both the performer and the production team of the album.

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[edit] Members

C+C Music Factory primarily consisted of two record producers and vocalists that varied by the particular recording project:

Main Members:

Robert Manuel Clivillés was born on 30 August 1964, in New York.[1]

David Cole was born as David B. Cole on 3 June 1962, in Johnson City, Tennessee; and died 24 January 1995 in Los Angeles, California of spinal meningitis.

Supporting Members:

Among the guest vocalists include rap outfit Trilogy, Paul Pesco, Rapper Q-Unique.

[edit] Chart History

In 1990, their first album Gonna Make You Sweat peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 Album Sales chart, #11 R&B Albums, and went 5x Platinum. In 1994, their follow up album, Anything Goes! peaked at #106 on the Billboard 200, and #39 on the R&B Albums.

They had a large number of club hits, several of which also crossed over to become massive pop hits.

All four singles from their debut album reached #1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, and all four were also crossover Pop and R&B hits. The first single "Gonna Make You Sweat" reached #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B Singles chart. The fourth and final single from their debut album "Just a Touch of Love", featured in the movie Sister Act. The album contained two more Top 5 singles; "Here We Go" reached #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" reached #4.

In 1992, they had another #1 Dance/Club play hit with the song "Keep It Comin'" (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More); including a variation with Rapper Q-Unique that was recorded for the soundtrack and opening cheerleading routine from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both versions of the song feature lead vocals by Deborah Cooper.

Their second album, Anything Goes!, had two less successful singles, "Do You Wanna Get Funky" and "Take a Toke". Both didn't make Billboard's Hot 100.

An album was released in Europe in late 1995 by Robert Clivillés with the name C+C Music Factory, which spawned one more US #1 Dance/Club Play hit "I'll Always Be Around". Neither the single nor the album featured former member David Cole, who had died prior to the recording of the material featured on this release.

[edit] Music videos

The stylish visuals and production for C+C Music Factory's first videos helped to distinguish the group's first releases from previous mainstream dance hits like Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam". Controversy erupted when it was found out that vocalist Zelma Davis appeared instead of vocalist Martha Wash in the video for the groups first single, "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)." Davis, the vocalist (aside from rapper Freedom Williams) on the next three singles, lip-synced to Wash's vocals in that video. Wash later sued the group and appeared on the Joan Rivers show unannounced immediately after the Milli Vanilli lip synch 'act' expose' erupted'. Speculation about bad blood between Wash and the group were laid to rest when Wash and Davis both appeared in the video for 1994's Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1 single, "Do You Wanna Get Funky", on which they both share lead vocals.

A video for "Just a Touch of Love" is featured at the beginning of VHS copies of the movie Sister Act. The video consists of members of the band singing and dancing with nuns in the movie, with scenes from the movie intermingled.

Videos for "Deeper Love" (known as "Pride" for its repeated tag line),this track became an anthem for GLBT pride and ethnic pride events worldwide to this day; The house cover & remix of U2's "Pride" (known as "In The Name of Love" from its tag) featured Deborah Cooper on lead vocals with Robert and David singing background.

[edit] Releases under alternate names

In 1987, they scored a hit in dance clubs with 1987's "Do It Properly", recorded under the name 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man and a Dominican.[2]

In 1989 they released a single under the name 28th Street Crew.[3]

In 1991, as Clivillés + Cole[4] they released an LP single, "A" side featuring a cover of a rock song by U2 called "Pride" but most often referred to by the tag line "In the Name of Love", but it was the B-side track, "Deeper Love", ironically referred to by its tag "Pride" featuring vocals by Deborah Cooper, a long time Clivilles and Cole vocalist, that proved to be an instant hit. Deborah Cooper performed "Deeper Love" on Saturday Night Live for C+C Music Factory

In 1992, they recorded a song under the moniker S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. for the Soundtrack to movie The Bodyguard (starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner). The song, "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day", was the only song on the soundtrack performed by an artist other than Whitney Houston to be released as a single in the US. They also produced another song on the Bodyguard soundtrack, Whitney Houston's cover of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman". (a few years earlier, C + C also produced a Chaka Khan song, "Clouds")

[edit] Production & Remix Work

Remixes produced by C+C Music Factory were credited to 'Clivilles & Cole'. Among the hits remixed by Clivilles & Cole are Natalie Cole's cover of "Pink Cadillac", Taylor Dayne's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love", "Let the Beat Hit Em" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, "My Heart Skips a Beat" and "All That Glitters Isn't Gold" by The Cover Girls, "Hide and Seek" by Pajama Party, "Notice Me" by Sandee, and "Black or White" by Michael Jackson. The group Seduction was one of Clivilles + Cole's most successful side projects.[5] In the summer of 1991, Cole & Clivillés produced several tracks for a New Kids on the Block remix album entitled No More Games: The Remix Album.[6]

Mariah Carey worked extensively with Clivilles & Cole[7]. Mariah hired C+C to produce songs for her albums, as well as remixes for her singles. Clivilles & Cole produced and co-wrote the album versions and remixes of her hit singles "Emotions" and "Make It Happen". Additionally, they produced the album tracks "You're So Cold" and "To Be Around You" (all 4 songs from the album "Emotions"). They also produced the original and the remixes of her hit "Anytime You Need A Friend" and "Now That I Know" (from the album "Music Box") and "Joy to the World" (from the album Merry Christmas). The single "One Sweet Day" was written in memory of David Cole.

In 1994, they produced a radio version of Jim Carrey's performance of "Cuban Pete" from the movie The Mask.[8] Also in 1994 Aretha Franklin covered the 1992 Clivillés + Cole single "Deeper Love"[9] for the film Sister Act 2.[10] Franklin actually hired Clivillés & Cole to produce the album version as well as the remixes. Thus, the song was a hit for the duo twice in two different incarnations within a 3 year time span.

[edit] Robert Clivillés solo works

Robert Clivillés continued to keep C+C's legacy alive through his own production work.

In 1995, he released a solo single under the name C+C Music Factory, called "I'll Always Be Around" (#1 Billboard Dance/Club Play), on MCA Records. This was the final #1 Dance/Club Play hit for C+C Music Factory. An album titled C+C Music Factory was released by MCA in 1995 in Europe, but it was not released in the US. This was the final studio album of new material to be released under the C+C Music Factory name.

The same year, Columbia records released Ultimate, a greatest hits collection featuring a mixture of remixes and album versions of C+C Music Factory's Sony Music singles. Two singles were released in conjunction with the album, "I Found Love" (#13 Dance/Club Play) and "Robi Rob's Boriqua Anthem" (#29 Dance/Club Play) featuring El General.

In October 1996, Robert Clivillés released an album of new material under the name Robi-Rob's Clubworld. The first single from the project, "Shake That Body" featured rapper Ya Kid K, formerly of Technotronic. The second single "Reach" was a collaboration with Hex Hector and featured vocals from longtime C+C vocalist Deborah Cooper and was the final recording to have piano tracks recorded by the late David Cole, his C + C partner. Most recently, Clivillés has worked with the group MVP.

[edit] MVP

MVP (also known as 'Most Valuable Playas') is a rap/hip hop music act from New York. The multi-cultural lineup of the group features an R&B singer from the Bronx, Vice Verse (a.k.a Victor Matos), Yonkers bred/Bronx born MC Stagga Lee (a.k.a. Eric Newman) and Robert Clivillés (a.k.a Rob Dinero/Rich Kid).

The group has released two albums, Stagga Lee presents MVP (Casablanca Records 2003) and Hip Hop, Clubs, Girls & Life Vol. 1 (Positiva 2006).

The group's Positiva debut single called "Roc Ya Body (Mic Check 1 2)" was a European summer hit[11]. "Bounce, Shake, Move, Stop!" was the second single released[12].

The group has released no further singles since this release.

[edit] Discography

[edit] As C+C Music Factory

[edit] Albums

Year Album US Billboard 200 peak RIAA Cert.
1990 Gonna Make You Sweat
#2
 5x Platinum
1994 Anything Goes!
#106
1995 C+C Music Factory
Not released in the US

[edit] Singles

Year Single US US Dance UK Chart Album
1990 "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
#1
#1
#3
 Gonna Make You Sweat
1991 "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)"
#3
#1
#20
"Things That Make You Go Hmmm"
#4
#1
#4
"Just a Touch of Love"
#50
#1
#31
1992 "Keep it Comin' (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More)"
#83
#1
#34
 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack
1994 "Do You Wanna Get Funky"
#40
#1
#27
 Anything Goes!
"Take a Toke"
-
#23
#26
1995 "I Found Love"
-
#13
#26
"I'll Always Be Around"
-
#1
-
 C+C Music Factory

[edit] References

  1. ^ Robert Clivilles Interview from About.com
  2. ^ "Do It Properly" was again covered by the original C + C vocalist Deborah Cooper in 2000 for DJ Producers: Peter Rauhofer (world's first Grammy Award winner in the then new dance music category) and Victor Calderone.
  3. ^ A song called O by 28th Street Crew (written by Robert Clivillés/David Cole/Ricky Crespo) can be found on the CD Ministry of Sound-the sessions volume 3 mixed by Clivilles & Cole (Warner Music, 1994) it is not clear if this is a remake of the 1989 single since it was copyrighted in 1994.
  4. ^ Clivillés + Cole is frequently misspelled as 'C & C' as it is C + C, a plus sign, not an ampersand
  5. ^ Seduction was a vocal trio which included among its members Michelle Visage (now known as a radio personality in the New York City area), Idalis DeLeon (who later became an actress and MTV VJ) and April Harris (who now owns the rights to the band's name and continues to release material). Seduction scored a long string of hits in the early 90's including "Two to Make It Right" (#2 Hot 100, #1 Dance/Club Play), "Heartbeat" (#13 Hot 100, #2 Dance/Club Play, #21 R&B Singles), "You're My One and Only True Love" (#23 Hot 100, #3 Dance/Club Play, #56 R&B Singles), "Could This Be Love" (#11 Hot 100, #38 R&B, #21 Adult Contemporary), "Breakdown" (#82 Hot 100, #4 Dance/Club Play), and "Seduction" (#17 Dance/Club Play).
  6. ^ Among the tracks the hit title produced by Cole & Clivilles entitled "Games" hit #14 on the UK Singles Chart. The album peaked at #10 on the US Billboard 200 album chart, selling more than 500,000 albums and going Gold.
  7. ^ In addition, C+C vocalist Deborah Cooper is a frequent background vocalist on Mariah's singles, CDs and tours internationally with her as a live background vocalist
  8. ^ The single included a C+C club mix
  9. ^ The single "Deeper Love" by Aretha Franklin featuring a backing vocal by Lisa Fischer
  10. ^ The single was later released as the lead single for her Greatest Hits (1980-1994) collection
  11. ^ "Roc Ya Body (Mic Check 1 2)" reached #5 in the UK Charts in July 2005, it also reached #1 in the Official UK Ringtone Chart
  12. ^ "Bounce, Shake, Move, Stop!" became the group's second UK Top 40 single when it entered the UK Singles Chart at #22, its peak

[edit] See also

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C+C Music Factory
Robert Clivillés · David Cole · Freedom Williams · Martha Wash · Zelma Davis · Deborah Cooper
Trilogy  · Paul Pesco · Q-Unique
Albums
Singles
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" · "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)" · "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" · "Just a Touch of Love" · "Keep it Comin' (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More)" · "Do You Wanna Get Funky" · "Take a Toke" · "I'll Always Be Around"
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