Dub Be Good to Me

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“Dub Be Good to Me”
“Dub Be Good to Me” cover
Single by Beats International
from the album Let Them Eat Bingo
Released February 1990
Format 12", 7, CD
Recorded Unknown
Genre Indie Dance, Pop
Label Go Beat
Writer(s) Norman Cook
Producer Norman Cook
Beats International singles chronology
- "Dub Be Good to Me"
(1990)		 "Won't Talk About It"
(1990)

"Dub Be Good to Me" is a popular single by the club music artist Beats International, released in 1990.

Written by Norman Cook aka. Fatboy Slim, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, "Dub Be Good to Me" was the sole number one single for Cook's genre hopping outfit Beats International, it was the first and to date only #1 Dub single in the UK[citation needed].

A mix of two songs, The Clash's "Guns of Brixton" and The SOS Band's "Just Be Good to Me", the song also had a sample of the distinctive "harmonica" theme from the epic western film Once Upon a Time in the West, written by Ennio Morricone. It was a massive hit spending 4 weeks at number one on the UK singles chart in February 1990. In the U.S., the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and #76 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Dub Be Good to Me" was covered by Jack Peñate and included as a b-side to his re-released single Second, Minute or Hour in September 2007.

In 2008, The SOS Band's "Just Be Good to Me" was used by Austalian DJ Seany B, of TV Rock fame, in his single "B Good 2 Me"[1]

Contents

[edit] Track listings

7" single
  1. "Dub Be Good to Me"
  2. "Invasion of the Estate Agents"

[edit] Chart

Chart (1990)[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart 12
Austrian Singles Chart 2
French Singles Chart 19
German Singles Chart 4
Irish Singles Chart 4
Italian Singles Chart 24
Norwegian Singles Chart 10
Swedish Singles Chart 10
Swiss Singles Chart 6
UK Singles Chart 1
US Billboard Hot 100 76
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 1
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 15
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 74
Preceded by
"Tears on My Pillow" by Kylie Minogue		 UK Singles Chart number-one single
February 25, 1990 - March 18, 1990		 Succeeded by
"The Power" by Snap!

[edit] See also

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Seany B's official website.
  2. ^ "Dub Be Good to Me", in various Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
  3. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
  4. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
  5. ^ Italian Single Chart Hit parade italia (Retrieved May 31, 2008)
  6. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
  7. ^ Billboard Billboard.com (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
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