Into the Groove

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"Into the Groove"
Single by Madonna
from the album Like a Virgin
Released	July 1985
Format	12" Maxi Single CD Single
Genre	Dance
Label	Sire Records Warner Bros. Records WEA International
Writer(s)	Madonna Steve Bray
Producer(s)	Madonna Steve Bray
Certification	Gold (UK)
Chart positions
#1 (United Kingdom, Australia, Japan) #2 (France, Switzerland)
Madonna singles chronology
"Angel" (1985)	"Into the Groove" (1985)	"Dress You Up" (1985)
Like a Virgin (non-US release) track listing
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (5)	"Into the Groove" (6)	"Dress You Up" (7)
You Can Dance track listing
"Over and Over" (5)	"Into the Groove" (6)	"Where's the Party" (7)
The Immaculate Collection track listing
"Crazy for You" (6)	"Into the Groove" (7)	"Live to Tell" (8)

"Into the Groove" is a hit single recorded by Madonna, written by her and Stephen Bray, and released in 1985 (on the B-side of the "Angel" 12" maxi-single in the USA and Australia and as an A-side on the rest of the world) .

Contents 1 Song information 2 Official versions 3 Track listings and formats 4 Charts 5 Covers & samples 6 Parodies

[edit] Song information

The song appeared in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan and was included on the later European re-issue of the Like a Virgin album. The song became one of her signature hits and record stores in the States actually had to put up signs to tell consumers that the song was available on the "Angel" maxi-single. Due to similar problems with "Crazy for You" and "Material Girl" being released at similar times and competing with each other, in the United States it was decided against releasing "Into the Groove" as a single so it would not compete with "Angel" off the Like a Virgin album.

The music video to the song is just clips from the movie Desperately Seeking Susan. It was put together to accompany the lyrics, Example: "At night i lock the doors where no one else can see", Shows a snippet from the movie of madonna closing a locker door and standing infront of it.

To date it is still one of her best selling singles in the UK (having sold in excess of 766,000 copies) and was at number one in the UK charts for 4 weeks, while the re-release of "Holiday" was at number two and "Crazy For You" was in the lower regions of the top 40. The song was the third biggest UK seller of 1985 behind Jennifer Rush's "The Power of Love" and "I Know Him So Well" by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson. Madonna indicated that she wrote the song while a Latin boy was waiting to take her out on a date. It has also been suggested that the song (with lyrics like, "At night I lock the doors where no one else can see" and "I'm tired of dancing here all by myself/Tonight I want to dance with someone else") is about masturbation.

Madonna performed "Into the Groove" on The Virgin Tour, on the Who's That Girl World Tour in 1987 and on the Blond Ambition Tour. She also performed it on her Live Aid performance in 1985.

She re-tailored the song in 2003, with a remix called "Into the Hollywood Groove", which replaces the first verse of "Into the Groove" with the first verse of "Hollywood." The chorus is also slightly altered. It also features a rap by Missy Elliott. This version of the song was used for a Gap ad featuring the pair of them in Gap jeans in the summer of 2003. This version can also be found in the 2003 Madonna EP 'Remixed and Revisited' and was also used in Madonna's 2004 Re-Invention Tour, where it was introduced with a bagpipe interlude.

[edit] Official versions

1. Original version 4:43
2. Video Version 3:51
3. Immaculate Collection Version 4:10
4. You Can Dance Version 8:26
5. You Can Dance Unmixed Version 8:38
6. You Can Dance Single Edit 4:48
7. You Can Dance Dub Version 6:22
8. Susan Macleod/Live I'm Going To Tell You A Secret 7:19
9. RIT Rehersal (Unreleased) 7:28

Released promotionally:

1. Love II Infinity's Special Edition Mix #1 10:13
2. Love II Infinity's Special Edition Mix #2 9:22
3. Love II Infinity's Special Edition Edit 4:07
4. Love II Infinity's Funktastic Mix 6:36
5. Love II Infinity's Funktastic Edit 4:45
6. Love II Infinity's Burning Club Mix 5:03
7. Love II Infinity's Gyrator Mix 5:26
8. Acapella (Unreleased) 4:41

Into The Hollywood Groove

1. Gap Edit 1:08
2. The Passengerz Mix 3:45
3. Peter Rauhofer Mix (Unreleased) 7:23
4. Acapella Transfer (Unreleased) 3:45

[edit] Track listings and formats

• UK 7" Single

1. "Into the Groove"
2. "Shoo-Bee-Doo"

• UK 12" Single / European CD Single (Re-Issue)

1. "Into the Groove"
2. "Everybody"
3. "Shoo-Bee-Doo"

[edit] Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Austria	6
Germany	3
France	2
Ireland	8
Japan	1
Switzerland	2
UK Singles Chart 1985	1
USA Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	1
USA Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales	1

[edit] Covers & samples

Sonic Youth covered "Into the Groove" (using the title "Into the Groove(y)") with Mike Watt from fIREHOSE and Minutemen. It appeared on the album Ciccone Youth.

In 2003, Madonna's "Into the Groove" was combined with the vocals of Dannii Minogue's third and final single from her album Neon Nights, "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling". The mix, called "Don't Wanna Lose This Groove", was the second official sampling of a Madonna song, proceeding the Avalanches sampling of Holiday (song). Into The Groove's instrumentation (and a small Madonna vocal sample) were added to Dannii Minogue's vocals (though Minogue's pitch was altered to fit the tempo of the song).

Mandy Savoy released a cover of Into The Groove as a single in 2003.

[edit] Parodies

[Heard on the radio in Southern California at the time of the song's popularity was a parody called "Into the Nude." The parody contiained lyrics such as "Only when I'm naked can I feel this free/At night, I hit the lights so everyone can see."]

Preceded by "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" by Eurythmics

UK number one single July 28, 1985

Succeeded by "I Got You Babe" by UB40 and Chrissie Hynde