Heartbeat (Taana Gardner song)

"Heartbeat"
Single by Taana Gardner
Released	1981
Format	7" vinyl, 12" vinyl
Genre	Boogie/Post-disco
Length	9:34 (Club Version)
Label	West End WES-22132 (US)
Writer(s)	Kenton Nix
Producer	Kenton Nix

"Heartbeat" is a 1981 dance single by Taana Gardner. It was arranged by Dennis Weeden and Kenton Nix, and released by West End Records, with the more famous club mix created by Larry Levan. It reached US Billboard R&B at #10, US Billboard Dance charts at #6.^[1]

1 Cover versions
2 Track listing
- 2.1 Taana Gardner
- 2.2 Seduction
3 Influence
4 Chart performance
- 4.1 Taana Gardner version
- 4.2 Seduction version
5 References

Cover versions

In 1990, Seduction recorded the song which along with the track "Heartbeat" peaked at number two on the dance charts ^[2]. This version also peaked at number twenty-one on the soul chart and number thirteen on the Hot 100 ^[3].

Track listing

Taana Gardner

US: West End / WES-22132

Side A
No.	Title	Version	Length
1.	"Heartbeat"	Club Version	9:34

Side B
No.	Title	Version	Length
1.	"Heartbeat"	Party Version	6:30

Seduction

Influence

"Heartbeat" has been extensively sampled in hip hop, pop music and dance music:

Ini Kamoze sampled "Heartbeat" for his song Here Comes the Hotstepper, a #1 song on the American pop charts in December 1994.
De La Soul sampled "Heartbeat" for their song "Buddy".
Musiq Soulchild sampled "Buddy" for his song B.U.D.D.Y..
Norwegian pop singer Annie based her song "I Will Get On" on Gardner's song "Heartbeat".
DMX sampled "Heartbeat" for the song entitled "It's All Good (Love My Niggas)".
Mack 10 sampled "Heartbeat" for his 1998 song, "LBC and the ING", which features Snoop Dogg on the album The Recipe.
Black Moon sampled "Heartbeat" on their 1999 song "Two Turntables & a Mic" from the album War Zone.
JX sampled "Heartbeat" for "There's Nothing I Won't Do" (1996).
The Treacherous Three sampled "Heartbeat" on their track "Feel The Heartbeat".
Nationwide Rip Ridaz sampled the whole song on the track titled Better Watch Your Back (Fucc Slob)

Chart performance

Taana Gardner version

Chart (1981)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles^[1]	10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play^[1]	6

Seduction version

Chart (1990)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[2]^[3]	13
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play^[2]^[3]	2
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles^[2]^[3]	21

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Allmusic: Taana Gardner - Discography". Allmusic, Billboard. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/taana-gardner-p78915/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 229.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 516.