Into the Groove
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| Single by Madonna | |||||
| B-side | "Shoo-Bee-Doo" "Physical Attraction" (Japan) |
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| Released | July 23, 1985 | ||||
| Format | 12" Maxi Single CD Single |
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| Genre | Pop, Dance, Freestyle | ||||
| Length | 4:40 | ||||
| Label | Sire, Warner Bros. | ||||
| Writer(s) | Madonna Steve Bray |
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| Producer | Madonna Steve Bray |
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| Certification | Gold (UK) | ||||
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"Into the Groove" is a 1985 song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her first major feature film Desperately Seeking Susan. It was released as a single on July 23, 1985 by Sire Records. It later appeared on the European re-issue of her second studio album, Like a Virgin, and also appears remixed on both the 1987 remix compilation You Can Dance and the 1990 greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection. In some countries, such as the United States, it was released only as the B-side to the maxi-single of "Angel".
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[edit] Song information
After its successful release on 23 July 1985, "Into the Groove" was added to the Like a Virgin album in Europe. The song became one of Madonna's 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.
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. During its stay at number one, Madonna's first UK hit "Holiday" (which had re-entered the chart shortly after the release if "Into the Groove") 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.
"Into the Groove" also marks Madonna's first number one single in Spain, where she would go on to have over 20 number one singles, more than in any other country, throughout her successful musical career.
The quick release of "Into the Groove" as an A-side would also see Madonna attain her second number one single in South Africa, and it would go on to be the third highest selling single of 1985 there, behind George Michael's "Careless Whisper" and Jennifer Rush's "Power of Love". In fact, it would be the start of many number ones and impressive sales in this country, where Madonna is regarded as the biggest selling female artist of all time - across many diverse cultures.
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.
The song was remixed in 1987 by Shep Pettibone for Madonna's remix compilation You Can Dance. Pettibone again remixed the song in 1990 alongside Goh Hotoda for the Immaculate Collection compilation.
Madonna 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 & Revisited' and was also used in Madonna's 2004 Re-Invention Tour, where it was introduced with a bagpipe interlude.
In 2003, Madonna fans were asked to vote for their Top 20 Madonna singles of all-time by Q-Magazine. "Into the Groove" was allocated the #3 spot.
In 2005, the song placed at #90 on Blender Magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" [1]
[edit] Music video
The music video was comprised of clips from the movie Desperately Seeking Susan with the lyrics often matching the images. Doug Dowdle of Parallax Productions (a company that pioneered in movie/music videos during the 1980s) created this video from edited footage of the movie, directed by Susan Seidelman. [2]
- Director: Doug Dowdle
- Producer: Jeffrey Abelson
- Director of Photography: Ed Lochman
- Editor: Doug Dowdle
- Production Company: Parallax Productions
[edit] Official versions
- Original Version 4:40
- Video Version 3:51
- Immaculate Collection Version 4:10
- You Can Dance Version 8:26
- You Can Dance Unmixed Version 8:38
- You Can Dance Single Edit 4:48
- You Can Dance Dub Version 6:22
- Susan Macleod Live Version on I'm Going to Tell You a Secret 7:19
- RIT Rehearsal (Unreleased) 7:28
Released promotionally:
- Love to Infinity's Special Edition Mix #1 10:13
- Love to Infinity's Special Edition Mix #2 9:22
- Love to Infinity's Special Edition Edit 4:07
- Love to Infinity's Funktastic Mix 6:36
- Love to Infinity's Funktastic Edit 4:45
- Love to Infinity's Burning Club Mix 5:03
- Love to Infinity's Gyrator Mix 5:26
- Acapella (Unreleased) 4:41
Into The Hollywood Groove
- Gap Edit 1:08
- The Passengerz Mix 3:45
- Peter Rauhofer Mix (Unreleased) 7:23
- Acapella Transfer (Unreleased) 3:45
[edit] Track listings and formats
- UK 7" Single
- "Into the Groove"
- "Shoo-Bee-Doo"
- UK 12" Single / European CD Single (Re-Issue)
- "Into the Groove"
- "Everybody"
- "Shoo-Bee-Doo"
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1985) | Peak Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales (B-Side to Angel 12" single) | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 19 |
| Australia | 1 |
| Austria | 6 |
| Chile | 1 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 | 1 |
| France | 2 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Netherlands | 1 |
| New Zealand | 1 |
| Norway | 3 |
| South Africa, Republic of | 1 |
| Spain | 1 |
| Sweden | 3 |
| Switzerland | 2 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
[edit] Cover versions
- Ciccone Youth (also known as Sonic Youth) covered "Into the Groove" (as "Into the Groove(y)"). It appeared on the The Whitey Album and was also released as a single.
- Dale Bozzio, former lead singer of new wave band Missing Persons, covered the song for the Madonna tribute album Virgin Voices II.
- A dance cover of the song was recorded by the group Mad'House for the album Absolutely Mad.
- French pop/rock group Superbus covered "Into the Groove" for their 2002 album, Aeromusical. It was the third and final single from the album.
- A 2007 folk music tribute compilation to Madonna, entitled Through the Wilderness, features a cover of the song by Jeremy Jay.
- In 1988 the Italian singer Mina covered "Into the Groove" in her album Ridi pagliaccio.
[edit] Samples, appearances in other media, etc.
- 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,[citation needed] preceding the Avalanches' sampling of "Holiday". "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).
[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 contained lyrics such as "Only when I'm naked can I feel this free/At night, I hit the lights so everyone can see."
- Madtv Parodied the GAP advert, Mo Collins as Madonna and Aries Spears as Missy Elliot
- French & Saunders parodied the GAP advert with French as Missy Elliot and Saunders as Madonna
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| 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 |
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