Ride on Time
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"'Cause you're right on time" --"Love Sensation" (1980) by Loleatta Holloway |
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"Ride on Time" is a 1989 single by Black Box from their debut LP Dreamland.
Written and produced by the Italian production team Groove Groove Melody (DJ Daniel Davoli, programmer Mirko Limoni and musician Valeric Semplici) and incorporating the composition "Love Sensation" written by Dan Hartman. The team worked with model Katrin (aka Catherine Quinol). Initially creating a legal stir for its unprecedented borrowing from another composition (more extreme than any other previous example of sampling, if one measures the amount of Hartman's composition that was used in total), this song became a massive hit in Italy and then worldwide, after legal rights were obtained in all territories.
The song attracted some controversy for the uncredited use of Loleatta Holloway's vocals from her recording of "Love Sensation". Holloway's counsel engaged in a press attack on Black Box, successfully securing a settlement that paid the singer an undisclosed sum; the group had legally cleared the samples with Salsoul records, but Holloway was in arrears for advances from the label and thus was not recompensed by Salsoul.