Dance Hall Days

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not adequately cite its references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!)
Any material not supported by sources may be challenged and removed at any time. This article has been tagged since January 2007.
"Dance Hall Days"
"Dance Hall Days" cover
Single by Wang Chung
Released January 1984
Format 7", CD
Genre Pop Rock, New Wave
Length 3:58
Label Geffen Records
Chart positions

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. Also on the soundtrack in the 1996 movie GOTTI.

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.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing

[edit] 7": Geffen / A3837 (UK)

  1. "Dance Hall Days"
  2. "There Is A Nation"

[edit] 7": Geffen / 7-29310 (US)

  1. "Dance Hall Days"
  2. "Ornamental Elephant"

[edit] 12": Geffen / TA3837 (UK)

  1. "Dance Hall Days [Remix]" (8:02)
  2. "There Is A Nation"

[edit] 12": Geffen / 0-20194 (US)

  1. "Dance Hall Days [Remix]" (8:02)
  2. "Don't Let Go [Remix]" (7:12)

[edit] 12": Geffen / GEF65T (UK)

  1. "Dance Hall Days Revisited [Extended Version]"
  2. "Dance Hall Days Revisited [Dub Version]"
  3. "Dance Hall Days [Original Version]"

[edit] 12": Geffen / GEF 12-22301 (US)

  1. "Dance Hall Days [Flashing Back To Happiness 12" Mix]"
  2. "Dance Hall Days [Darren Costin Remix]"
  3. "Dance Hall Days [Richie Warburton Remix]"
  4. "Dance Hall Days [Flashing Back To Happiness 7" Mix]"
  5. "Let's Go! [Shep's Mix]"
  • Released in 1997 to coincide with the band's "Best Of" release
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../d/a/n/Dance_Hall_Days_ad74.html"