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Nameless when they played it in 1983 on Late Night With David Letterman (their TV debut), and later tagged "Southern Central Rain" before being abbreviated by singer Michael Stipe, this suggestive, ambling almost countryish song was quickly identified as R.E.M.'s obvious crossover shot (though it only got as far as Number 85 on Billboard).
It finally hit Number One thanks to a re-imagining by Flo Rida and Ke$ha in 2009. Whatever the formula, the song had remarkable staying power, being re-released three more times as a single during the next 20 years. New York nightclub doyenne Nell Campbell), which Stock Aitken Waterman spiffed up in a 36-hour cocaine-amped recording session. Burns claimed to have written the song by allusively splicing Luther Vandross' club jam "I Wanted Your Love" with chirpy pop-dance blip "See You 'Round Like a Record" by Little Nell (a.k.a. Their partnership with Dead or Alive resulted in synth-disco burner "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," which became a U.K. But then he sought out the young hi-NRG production trio of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman - who'd just had a club breakthrough with "You Think You're a Man" by John Waters' gender-bending grand dame Divine.
A brash, ravishing gender-bender with a fresh mouth and no legit hits, Dead or Alive frontman Pete Burns was in danger of being dismissed as a catty Boy George knock-off by 1984.
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