Eddie Murphy hits Europe's dance charts

... with his 80s flop.

2006 has been kind to Eddie Murphy. Not only he's back on the screen in the juicy role of "James Thunder Early" in DreamGirls (seen clips on Oprah, he's back in top form! Some say it's Oscar worthy), believe it, he's currently topping the dance charts in Europe with a remake/re-edit/remix of his so-so hit of 1985 "Party All the time", composed and produced by Rick James (R.I.P). The 2006 re-hash comes courtesy of DJ/Remixer Sharam (Deep Dish).

Sharam said to Pete Tong: "We were trying to get Eddie to re-sing it or clear it but the powers that be in different parts of the music industry did not want to do it... ... we had to go with a different singer. Antoine from Second Sun nailed the vocals and a lot of people cannot even tell the difference"



View the "uncut" version on YouTube (more funny in every sense)

Or better, view the original '85 video on YouTube, when Rick had long blondie hair :) :), boy do I miss the 80s!


By the way, Sharam conconcted an incredible dance floor friendly remix of the 70s classic by Fleetwood Mac "Dreams" recently.

A few weeks ago, read an excellent "study" written by Chris Cottingham in the October 2006 issue of MixMag on those recycled 70s-80s hits titled "McDance".

Recycled 70s/80s hits are doing very well in Europe.

Wonder if Rick James would have been around, then, this wouldn't have been possible, he wouldn't have allowed it, he didn't want MC Hammer to rap on "Super Freak" (U can't tuch this!) even less have a dj doing a loop with Eddie's "Party All the Time".

Eddie in Dreamgirls image source: dreamgirlsmovie.com