Dance Hall Days
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| "Dance Hall Days" | ||
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| Single by Wang Chung | ||
| Released | January 1984 | |
| Format | 7", CD | |
| Genre | Pop Rock, New Wave | |
| Length | 3:58 | |
| Label | Geffen Records | |
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This is one of Wang Chung's most popular and well know hit single. It was released in 1984. Despite them being from the United Kingdom, this was their only hit in the UK. This was featured in the 1997 movie Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and on the Flash FM radio staton in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto:Vice City.
Two versions of the music video were made. The first version of the video is a collection of home movies is shown with the majority of the archive footage consisting of a stage show with swimmers and fountains, and other World War II era material. Apparently, the footage is courtesy of the director's Derek Jarman father, who was one of the very first people ever to use a color home movie camera. The toddler in the home movie footage is the director himself as a child. The home movies are interspersed amid footage of Jack, Nick, and Darren, lip-synching and playing the violin. The guys are also dressed up as characters from The Wizard of Oz at the end of the video, with Jack Hughes as the Tin Man, Nick Feldman as the Scarecrow, and Darren Costin as the Lion. The second version of the video is the most aired and well known music video. It is a concept of a magical fantasy about a dance hall in the 1940s, the heyday of dance halls. The video begins in black and white with Jack Hughes picking up and reading a flyer outside the dace hall. The next scene, which is filmed in color features the band performing at the dance hall with the couples dancing. Later in the video, a disco-ball lowering on the dance floor and the emergence of a disco-ball creature sprouting from its egg. The video ends in black and white with Jack Hughes leaving the dance hall on the street and a suitcase with legs following him.
