Jack Your Body

"Jack Your Body"
Single by Steve "Silk" Hurley
from the album Hold on to Your Dream
B-side	Remix
Released	December 1986
Format	CD Single CD Maxi 7" Single 12" Maxi
Recorded	1986
Genre	Chicago house
Length	3:13
Label	DJ International Records RCA Records London Records BCM Records Underground
Writer(s)	Steve Hurley
Producer(s)	Steve "Silk" Hurley
Steve "Silk" Hurley chronology
"I Can't Turn Around" (1986) "Jack Your Body" (1986) "Let the Music Take Control" (1987)

Jack Your Body is a popular song by Steve 'Silk' Hurley, which was featured on the only J.M. Silk album, Hold on to Your Dream, released in 1987.

One of the landmark records in the history of House music, Jack Your Body was written and produced by Hurley. The song became a major hit on the UK singles chart, reaching #1 for two weeks in January and February 1987,^[2] despite Hurley's refusal to promote it.

This was the UK's first house music #1, and paved the way for the acid house sound popular there during the late 1980s. It was also the first UK number one single to achieve the majority of its sales on the 12" format. Under the chart rules in place at the time, the 12" single should not have counted toward "Jack Your Body"'s chart position as its running time exceeded the then-current 25-minute limit. The rule was not enforced since the running time was not brought to the chart compilers' attention until the record was already at number one.

In spite of "Jack Your Body's" success, Hurley has had no further solo singles whatsoever (under his own name) in the UK Top 75.

The song was sampled by Sub Focus on his 2013 hit "Turn Back Time".

The song climbed to number twenty-five on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play,^[3] reaching number thirty-seven for the U.S. Maxi-Singles Sales category.^[4]

Credits and personnel

Official versions

• "Jack Your Body (LP Version)" - 4:20
• "Jack Your Body (Edit)" - 3:13
• "Jack Your Body (Club Your Body)" - 6:50
• "Jack Your Body (Dub Your Body)" - 6:25
• "Jack Your Body (Dub Your Body Edit)" - 3:35
• "Jack Your Body (Home Made Mix)" - 6:35
• "Jack Your Body (Steve "Silk" Hurley Remix)" - 7:03
• "Jack Your Body (Monty House Remix)" - 6:29

Charts and sales

Peak positions

Chart successions

Notes

1. ↑ "Jack Your Body" was released on a 12" single that was over 25 minutes long, exceededing the maximum time for a record to be classified as a single. The track should have been classified as an album instead and, during the two weeks it spent at number one, "Reet Petite" would have been number one for a fifth week and "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)" would have become number one a week earlier.^[1]

See also

• List of UK number one singles
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References

External links

• Steve "Silk" Hurley on AllMusic
• J.M. Silk on AllMusic