Southern Freeez (song)

"Southern Freeez"
Single by Freeez
from the album Southern Freeez[1]
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1980, Vineyard Studios.
Genre Post-disco,[2] funk[2]
Length 5:40 (LP version)
Label Beggars Banquet (UK)
Writer(s) Andy Stennett, John Rocca, Peter Maas
Producer(s) John Rocca
Freeez singles chronology
"Keep In Touch"
(June, 1980)		 "Southern Freeez"
(February, 1981)		 "Flying High"
(April, 1981)

"Southern Freeez" is the 2nd single from British dance music group Freeez. It was released on the debut album of the same name.

Song information

Freeez gained higher sales with this record than with the previous single, "Keep In Touch". "Southern Freeez" reached the top 10[3] of the UK national charts during February 1981[4] ("Keep In Touch" only reached number #49 in UK[5]).

Special musical guest Ingrid Mansfield Allman provided vocals on the record.

The titular Southern Freeez is attested to derive from a dance move, "The Freeze," used by clubbers in the "Royalty" club, Southgate in the early 1980s. A then-popular track, The Groove by Rodney Franklin, has moments where the band drops out for a bar, and a style of freezing movement at these points took hold.[6]

Remix

"Southern Freeez (Remix)"
Single by Freeez
Released September 1987
Format 7", 12", CD
Genre House, Synth-pop, Soul
Label Total Control (UK)
Warner Bros. Records/FMR (Worldwide)
Writer(s) Andy Stennett, John Rocca, Peter Maas
Freeez singles chronology
"I.O.U. (remix)"
(January, 1987)		 "Southern Freeez (remix)"
(September 1987)

In August/September, 1987, the song was remixed and re-released by the label Total Control. The remix reached number #23 in the British singles chart

Cover Versions

UK Soul Singer Beverley Knight covered 'Southern Freeez' for her 2011 album 'Soul UK.'[7]

A cover of the song also appeared on the 2014 'Brasil Bam Bam Bam' album by the Gilles Peterson-assembled Brazilian musical collective Sonzeira, with Emanuelle Araujo and Valerie Etienne on vocals.

Track listing

UK single (1981 version)

  1. "Southern Freeez" - 5:40
  2. "Southern Freeez (LP Version)"

UK single (1987 version)

  1. "Southern Freeez (Dance Mix)"
  2. "Southern Freeez (Avenger Mix)"
  3. "Southern Freeez (7" Edit)"

Charts

1981

Chart Peak
position
UK Singles[8] #8

1987

Chart Peak
position
UK Singles[9] #63

Credits

1981

1987

See also

References

  1. ↑ Freeez Discography.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Day, David (20 October 2004). "Some of My Favorite Things: David Day (Freeezstyle)". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  3. ↑ search for Freeez performed at Everyhit.com database
  4. ↑ Freeez on site Britfunkheaven - biography
  5. ↑ search for Freeez performed at Everyhit.com database
  6. ↑ "Robert Elms Show". October 4, 2013. Event occurs at 2:30:20. BBC London 94.9. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ WhoSampled - Beverley Knight's Southern Freeez cover
  8. ↑ Search for "Freeez" performed at Everyhit.com database.
  9. ↑ Search for "Freeez" performed at Everyhit.com database.
  1. "Southern Freeez" (12" 1981)

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