Light My Fire (Club House song)

"Light My Fire"
Single by Club House featuring Carl
from the album Nowhere Land (The Album)
Released23 August 1993 (1993-08-23)
GenreItalo house
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Gianfranco Bortolotti
Club House singles chronology
"Take Your Time"
(1992) 		"Light My Fire"
(1993) 		"Living in the Sunshine"
(1994)

"Light My Fire" is a song by Italian musical group Club House, featuring Italian-American singer Carl Fanini, released as the second single from their debut and only album, Nowhere Land (The Album) (1995), in August 1993. It was co-written by a number of producers at Media Records,[1] including Gianfranco Bortolotti and Mauro Picotto, a DJ who would go on to have a number of trance hits in the 2000s, such as "Lizard" and "Komodo".[2]

Releases[edit]

"Light My Fire" was first released as a single on 23 August 1993,[3] charting at No. 45 on the United Kingdom and No. 19 in Ireland, where it is remembered as the record the original six man line-up of Boyzone danced to on RTÉ's The Late Late Show.[4] A re-release the following year with new remixes by fellow Media Records act Cappella saw it reach No. 11 in Ireland,[5] and No. 26 in Australia.[6] In the United Kingdom, Media Records had licensed the single to Pete Waterman's PWL record label (as UK Media Records would not be launched for another couple of years), with the Cappella version becoming another top 10 hit for PWL, when it peaked at No. 7[7] in April 24, 1994. The single was also a hit in Scandinavia and the US.[8]

Critical reception[edit]

In August 1994, Larry Flick from Billboard remarked that the song "has already wooed folks overseas".[9] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton noted that it "has been filling floors up and down the country".[10] Sarra Manning from Melody Maker felt it "is naff because the lyrics never progross beyond, Light my fire...burn baby, burn baby", adding, "Yet it touches a chord. [...] The chord that yearns to visit nice discotheques with carpets and cocktails where you take to the dancefloor with your spouse and grind your hips to the pounding PWL beat, glad that you no longer have to fend off stagedivers and pretend to like that noisy indie bollocks."[11] Alan Jones from Music Week gave it four out of five, describing it as a "happy Italian record in Erasure-go-house style, right down to the ersatz Andy Bell contralto."[12] In 1993, James Hamilton from the Record Mirror Dance Update called it "catchy hey down dippy doo day-ah chanting reissued now much more timely smash bound scampering Italo Hi-NRG".[13] In 1994, he deemed it an "infectious Italo Hi-NRG galloper".[14]

Track listings[edit]

  • CD single, UK (PWL Continental, 1993)
  1. "Light My Fire" (edit) – 3:32
  2. "Light My Fire" (Noisy Clouds mix) – 4:55
  3. "Light My Fire" (Storm in the Clouds mix) – 5:06
  4. "Light My Fire" (X Club cut) – 6:12
  5. "Light My Fire" (XX Club cut) – 5:24
  6. "Light My Fire" (R.A.F. Track) – 1:59
  • CD single - The Cappella Remixes, UK (PWL Records 1994)
  1. "Light My Fire" (Cappella (R.A.F. Zone) remix edit) – 3:39
  2. "Light My Fire" (Cappella (KM) remix) – 6:17
  3. "Light My Fire" (Cappella (R.A.F. Zone) remix) – 6:07
  4. "Light My Fire" (DJ Professor XX dub) – 6:29
  5. "Light My Fire" (original 12-inch mix) – 4:54

Charts[edit]

Chart (1993–1994) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[15] 26
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[16] 26
Europe (European Dance Radio)[17] 3
Finland (IFPI)[18] 20
Ireland (IRMA) 11
Scotland (OCC)[19] 9
UK Singles (OCC) 7
UK Dance (Music Week)[20] 9
UK Dance (Music Week)[21]
Re-release 		4
UK Club Chart (Music Week)[22] 13
UK Club Chart (Music Week)[23]
Re-release 		18

Release history[edit]

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom 23 August 1993
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 PWL Continental [3]
United Kingdom (re-release) 18 April 1994
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [24]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Light My Fire" Remixes by Club House, Written By A. Puntillo/M. Picotto/G. Bortolotti/C. Fanini, Produced by Gianfranco Bortolotti, 1994 Media Records Srl, cat no: MR 618 (12 inch)
  2. ^ "MAURO PICOTTO | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". OfficialCharts.com.
  3. ^ a b "Single Releases". Music Week. 21 August 1993. p. 23.
  4. ^ "1st Boyzone Appearance on TV". RTÉ Archives.
  5. ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know".
  6. ^ "australian-charts.com - Club House feat. Carl - Light My Fire".
  7. ^ "CLUB HOUSE - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". OfficialCharts.com.
  8. ^ "The Talents Behind The Dance Hits Of 94: ClubHouse Featuring Carl" (PDF). Music Week. 17 December 1994. p. 30. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  9. ^ Flick, Larry (6 August 1994). "Dance Trax: Eric Kupper on the move; Jon Secada finds a groove". Billboard. Vol. 106. Issue 32.
  10. ^ Masterton, James (25 April 1994). "Week Ending April 30th 1994". Chart Watch UK. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  11. ^ Manning, Sarra (16 April 1994). "Singles". Melody Maker. p. 35. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  12. ^ Jones, Alan (2 April 1994). "Market Preview: Mainstream - Singles" (PDF). Music Week. p. 12. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  13. ^ Hamilton, James (6 November 1993). "Dj directory" (PDF). Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert). p. 7. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  14. ^ Hamilton, James (23 April 1994). "Dj directory" (PDF). Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert). p. 7. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  15. ^ "Club House feat. Carl – Light My Fire". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Eurochart Hot 100" (PDF). Music & Media. 14 May 1994. p. 14. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  17. ^ "European Dance Radio Top 25" (PDF). Music & Media. 4 June 1994. p. 21. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  18. ^ Week 22, 1994.
  19. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100 24 April 1994 - 28 May 1994". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  20. ^ "Dance Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 4 September 1993. p. 26. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  21. ^ "Dance Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 30 April 1994. p. 22. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  22. ^ "The RM Club Chart" (PDF). Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert). 14 August 1993. p. 4. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  23. ^ "The RM Club Chart" (PDF). Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert). 16 April 1994. p. 4. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  24. ^ "Single Releases". Music Week. 16 April 1994. p. 27.
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