Black Box – Ride On Time

IMHO the remixes are absolute garbage end of!
why does the UK 12" original have a different number to the 7" really odd and strange the PB and PT prefixes differentiates them 43055 and 43056 is weird!
No one has listed or shown the UK 12" promo I guess PT43056DJ
black label silver text large yellow script a and b

One of the best piano-house songs of all time. D. Davoli & M. Limoni make a good and fantastic house record..
Sempled vocal is fantastic and still make me dance after all this years..This is real piano-house bomb and one of my favourite!!..

I thought there was an early version of this, 1988, out in the clubs at least? I guess that white labels or other pre-release versions, maybe just thrown around from band or producers to friends in the house music scenes, needn't necessarily show up on the list here, which is for official releases of some sort. I think I various types of 88 versions, even piano alone, in places like early Biology (I think, if those gatherings were even called that yet) near Ipswich.

One silver lining I guess when it comes to the vocal sample controversy, is that the replacement vocal ended up being that of the soon-to-be-legendary Heather Small of M People fame. She of course would go on to have an amazing career in the 90's and become one of its best (and most distinctive sounding) house vocalists.

They could have done much worse when choosing a replacement vocalist!

All these wonderful (and mixed up) releases need to be corrected factual notes listed and put in correct release order for example that Italian "Out" listing is a much much later boot from mid 90's
The First and original was on Groove Groove Medley as was the crazy confusing, vile remix!
The next was the UK original 12" picked up by De-Construction (Nick Pickering) who had RCA-Ariola as their UK licencees.

Note that no-one has listed the original UK De-Construction 12" Promo with the distinctive large lower case a in the centre of the label, that promo features the sampled, un requested, paid for and nicked sample of Loretta Holloway's Salsoul gem and classic "Love Sensation"

It was a total embarrassment for RCA-Ariola UK and Europe as they were the then licence's for Salsoul. a request to use the sample fell on deaf ears at Salsoul and too little too late! GGM Italy and RCA-Ariola pan Europe paid massive out of court settlements.To Salsoul, writers publicists Ms Holloway,

Hence the vile remix and the crass crazy names given by some idiot it the marketing dept aww Ride what a horse? Giddy Up aww The Ascot mix etc great team in Fullham Rd........not. (this began a run of seriously crass DJ promo catalogue names for across the groups releases, such as MOVE1 SUSAN1 ELPROMO 1 ARRON1 TAKE1, HIDE1 etc etc and a crass name for club promotions "Word Of Mouth" and it became a label!

Miss Holoway and Salsoul got revenge and massive respect from Mark Walburg and team at Interscope with the sample cleared, paid for and direct involvement from Miss Holoway to Marky Mark & The Funk Bunch........Good Vibrations. it left GGM and the whole Italian, ethos, nick, sample, play and boot what you like in tatters and with egg on faces. (Italiy still is the number one retro 12" (I don't that" booters! )

Go solely for the GGM original 12" or the UK De-Construction 12" original the remake is pants!
Very heavy learning curve for Pickering and De-Construction. RCA-Ariola were going to drop the contract and whilst things were up in the air EMI-Parlophone handled a few De-Construction projects
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If anyone has a UK legit original 12" promo with A4 info sheet/chart return please list it as it's a slice of naughty rip-off DJ history esp here in the UK! For Pickering luckily Kylie came along and M People/Heather Small really took off .
"What have you done today to make me feel proud" was not on the RCA-Ariola's euro board's lips at all.

Black Box died a very rapid death loosing any credibility, went back to making ice cream,pizza's and leaning tower models!

Don't know where I heard this, or, I may have even read it in 'some' dance magazine from the late 80's, It may not even be true, but the story goes something like this..
'Ride On Time' was just a plain piano track with no vocals, and no title yet, and Davoli was the resident DJ at Starlight, one night while he was playing at Starlight, he dropped this piano track and decided to mix an accapella over the top and cut it up, which incidently was 'Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation' (probably taken from.. Various - Acapella Anonymous Vol. #1 from the 80's). The crowd went mental and hey presto, 'Ride On Time' was born.
I hope the tale is true, its a nice little story to one of the best Italo House tracks ever produced.

One of the tunes that embodies the late 80's Hacienda sound. Mike Pickering would play this tune out at the Hacienda all the time and the crowd would go nuts. Certfied classic. Don't let the cover art of the subsequent releases scare you away.