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Ladies' Night (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Ladies' Night'" is a song by American band Kool & the Gang, released as the first single from their eleventh album of the same name (1979). It is a play on the popular use of "Ladies Nights" at bars and clubs that were meant to draw in more female patrons in order to draw in even more male clientele. The song as a single was a success, and became a radio staple. It was also a chart success, peaking at number eight on the US 'Billboard' Hot 100 in 1980 and stayed atop the R&B charts for two weeks. It also gave them their first hit in the United Kingdom in August 1979, peaking at number nine in the UK Singles Chart.
Track listing
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| length1 = 3:32
| title2 = Too Hot
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| length2 = 4:10
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{{Track listing
| headline = Ladies' Night/If You Feel Like Dancin'
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| title1 = Ladies' Night
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| length1 = 3:32
| title2 = If You Feel Like Dancin
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| extra2 =
| length2 = 5:05
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'Notes'
* denotes associate producer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Atomic Kitten version
{{Infobox song
| name = Ladies Night
| cover = Atomic Kitten Ladies Night single cover.jpg
| border = yes
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Atomic Kitten featuring Kool & the Gang
| album = Ladies Night The Hits: Reloaded
| released =
| length = 3:06
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| writer =
| producer =
| chronology = Atomic Kitten
| prev_title = If You Come to Me
| prev_year = 2003
| next_title = Someone like Me
| next_title2 = Right Now 2004
| next_year = 2004
| misc =
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In 2003, American R&B band Kool & the Gang asked English girl group Atomic Kitten to re-record "Ladies Night" for their 'The Hits: Reloaded' tribute album. The band subsequently asked them if they could include it on their then-untitled third album which they eventually named after the song in honor of the collaboration following Kool's approval. The re-recording was produced by Khalis Bayyana and Andy Whitmore; Andy Whitmore is credited as a co-producer, while Ash Howes and Martin Harrington served as additional prodcuers. "Ladies Night" was released as the lead single from 'The Hits: Reloaded' and served as the second single from Atomic Kitten's 'Ladies Night' album. The song peaked at number three in Spain, and reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart, outpeaking the original version of the track.
Chart performance
The song debuted and peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Atomic Kitten's first single to not reach the top 5 in over two years. It stayed in the top 40 for eight weeks, three of which were in the top ten. In 2021, the Official Charts Company ranked the song as the band's eight seventh-selling single in the United Kingdom ahead of previous single "If You Come to Me," making it the biggest-selling single from 'Ladies Night'.In Spain, "Ladies Night" was Atomic Kitten's only top ten hit peaking at number three; it lasted three weeks in the top ten of the Spanish Singles Chart. The song reached the top twenty in the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Flanders and Denmark, and became a top-40 hit in German-speaking Europe, peaking at number 33 in Germany, number 32 in Austria and number 38 in Switzerland. In Oceania, the song did not do as well as their previous singles. "Ladies Night" was not released in New Zealand, where their previous single "If You Come to Me" had reached the top 10, and it managed to peak at only number 39 in Australia, becoming their last single to reach the top 50 there.
Music video
A music video for "Ladies Night" was directed by Cameron Casey. The video begins with many people anxiously crowded around the entrance of a club, trying to get in. Suddenly a pink plasma waves sweeps through the middle of the crowd, from the door, pushing them off to either side. The group head into the Kitten Club, and the crowd follows them in, until only the bouncer is left standing outside. In the well-lit club, the group groove about and sing, a great deal of which is on a pure white discothque dance floor. They primarily dance in a row, with two rows of men behind them, though occasionally they are straddling the fellows, or performing other dance moves with them.Drag queens are spotted in the video, and appear repeatedly, including in the women's washroom, near the video's conclusion. A bartender, bearing resemblance to Boy George, appears throughout the video. Jenny Frost starts to flirt with him, as if going in for a kiss; in actuality, she's stealing his drink from behind him. While a man hits on Liz McClarnon, he is in turn hit on by another man. The group repeatedly flip their hands in the air, creating pink plasma as appeared earlier in the video. This transports them to the opposite side of the club, where they appear on rollerskates, in different outfits. They use their magic again, instantly stripping three men down to pink lycra underwear. The men, in their skivvies, visit the girls at their booth. Tash is so amused at the provided crotch view that she brings out American money which she waves around; money is never actually transferred. At the very start of the video, when Jen blows a kiss, lip marks appear on the screen as a graphic.
Track listings
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| length1 = 3:06
| title2 = The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)
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| length2 = 3:26
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{{tracklist
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| length1 = 3:06
| title2 = Ladies Night
| note2 = Kurtis Mantronik 7-inch
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| length2 = 3:22
| title3 = Somebody
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| extra3 = The True North Music Company
| length3 = 3:35
| title4 = Ladies Night
| note4 = video, lyrics, and photo gallery
| length4 = 3:14
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{{tracklist
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| length1 = 3:06
| title2 = Ladies Night
| note2 = Kurtis Mantronik 7-inch
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| length2 = 3:22
| title3 = Be with You
| note3 = Todd Terry Remix
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| extra3 =
| length3 = 6:06
| title4 = Somebody
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| extra4 = The True North Music Company
| length4 = 3:35
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'Notes'
* denotes co-producer
* denotes additional producer
* denotes vocal producer
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of 'Ladies Night'.'Studio'
* Recorded at KFTA Studios, New Jersey; Metropolis Studios, London; Unique Corp Studios, London
'Personnel'
* Clifford Adams trumpet, trombone
* Kaylis Bayyan producer, saxophone, keyboards
* Ronald Bell bass guitar, writer
* George "Funky" Brown keyboard
* Reece Gilmore programming
* Leigh Guest arranger, producer, programming
* Martin Harrington additional producer
* Tim Horton drums
* Ash Howes additional producer
* James Loughrey U production engineer
* Sennie "Skip" Martin trumpet, vocals
* Andrew Smith additional guitars
* Charles Smith guitars
* James "J.T." Taylor vocals
* Dennis "D. T." Thomas guitars
* Keith Uddin engineer
* Andy Whitmore co-producer, programming, additional keyboards
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
Other covers
*"Ladies Night" was also remade with Spanner Banner and Sean Paul in 2004. This was also a collaboration with Kool & the Gang and reached 58 in the Swedish chart [http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Kool+%26+The+Gang+feat%2E+Spanner+Banner+%26+Sean+Paul&titel=Ladies+Night&cat=s SwedishCharts.com] "Ladies Night" (Spanner Banner) page Accessed: October 29, 2006
*One Way - also known as Al Hudson and (soul) partners did as very similar groove on the 1979 hit "You can do it", which leads to...:
*Leon Haywood's 1980 song "Don't Push It Don't Force It". Another very similar groove.
*The song is also covered by the San Francisco indie rock band 'Two Seconds' at their live shows.
*Rapper Lil' Kim used a sample of this song for the remix of her song, "Not Tonight", also called "Not Tonight (Ladies' Night Remix)", which features Angie Martinez, Da Brat, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Missy Elliott.
*Samantha Mumba sings a portion of the song in "Baby, Come Over (This Is Our Night)".
*C+C Music Factory sampled the end of the song in the song "I Found Love" from the album 'Anything Goes!'.
*Preston Reed did a blues rock instrumental cover of Ladies' Night.
*South Korean-Chinese Girl Group Miss A sampled a portion of the song in "Come On Over" on their Second Studio Album "Hush".
*The song is heard and "rabbidizied" by the rabbids for 'Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party'.
On the US game show Deal or No Deal Season 2 episode "Ladies Night & Hot Dog on a Stick", the song is heard when the LA and San Diego firefighters holding the cases.
Movies
*In the 1998 film 'The Wedding Singer', the character played by Jon Lovitz performs the song in his wedding singer audition.
*In the 2000 film 'Little Nicky', the peeper (again played by Jon Lovitz) sings the song while looking at a woman undress. Later, when he is sent to Hell, the song plays while a bird rapes him; the Gatekeeper tells him "Now you're going to see what a real horny bird actually looks like...In Hell!"
* *In the 2002 film 'Sorority Boys', the song is played when the three main characters Adam, Dave, and Doofer show up for a party in drag at their former fraternity house undercover in order to get a tape to prove their innocence.
References
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