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For the build up of the [[1998]] [[FA Cup]] final, [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] covered the song, using samples from the original, and replacing some lyrics, with descriptons of the squad, who were to play in the final. |
For the build up of the [[1998]] [[FA Cup]] final, [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] covered the song, using samples from the original, and replacing some lyrics, with descriptons of the squad, who were to play in the final. |
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The songs basic storyline is about Summer's desperately seeking a male prostitute to share her love with. This is evident in three lines of the song. <ref>[http://www.lyrics007.com/Donna%20Summer%20Lyrics/Hot%20Stuff%20Lyrics.html] |
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1: "Waitin' for some lover to call, dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall" |
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2: "Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover, wanna bring a wild man back home" |
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3: "I dialed about hundred numbers baby, I'm bound to find somebody home" |
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| B-side | "* Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart |
"Hot Stuff" is a well known hit single released by American disco singer Donna Summer in 1979 as the first single release from her Bad Girls album through Casablanca Records. Up to that point, Summer had mainly been associated with disco songs but this song also showed significant rock influences including the guitar, which had never been used in a Donna Summer single before. It was certified double-platinum by the RIAA (for sales of over two million copies in the United States) and remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three non-consecutive weeks. "Hot Stuff" would also win Summer the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, making her the first African-American artist to achieve that feat.
The song also topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, with Summer's follow-up "Bad Girls" as a double A-side.
The track was covered in 1995 by DJ Miko, giving the tune a contemporary dance music twist, and later partially covered by The Pussycat Dolls in their 2005 debut album PCD. The verses (which were slightly altered) and the overall sound of the song are from Siobhan Fahey's "Bitter Pill", but with the chorus of Summer's "Hot Stuff" and it was renamed it "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)".
In other media
The song was memorably featured in the popular 1997 film The Full Monty. During a press event on his 50th birthday, Charles, Prince of Wales helped recreate the scene in which the four main characters overhear the song while waiting in line at the unemployment office.[1]
The song is also featured prominently in an episode of the British mystery television series Jonathan Creek in the episode Angel Hair where it is sung by Caroline Carver who plays popstar Sally Ellen Oakley. It also forms a part of the soundtrack of the movie Eurotrip.
Steve Allen did a "poetic" reading of "Hot Stuff" on one of his 1980 television shows, along the lines of his "poetic" readings of rock and roll songs he had done in the 1950s. At one point, Allen solemnly intoned, "Hot, hot, hot . . . stuff, stuff, stuff." [1]
Trivia
For the build up of the 1998 FA Cup final, Arsenal covered the song, using samples from the original, and replacing some lyrics, with descriptons of the squad, who were to play in the final.
The songs basic storyline is about Summer's desperately seeking a male prostitute to share her love with. This is evident in three lines of the song. <ref>[2]
1: "Waitin' for some lover to call, dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall"
2: "Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover, wanna bring a wild man back home"
3: "I dialed about hundred numbers baby, I'm bound to find somebody home"
References
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/213847.stm News.BBC.co.uk