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Black Box (later Blackbox) was an Italo-house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for their hit “Ride on Time”. The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ (Daniele Davoli), a classically trained clarinet teacher (Valerio Semplici) and a keyboard and electronic music “whizz” (Mirko Limoni.) The three had previously joined to form a group called Groove Groove Melody, producing dance music under names such as Starlight and Wood Allen. They went on to record music under many other aliases.

In 1989, they teamed up with singer/model Catherine Quinol (AKA Katrin) and formed Black Box. By early 1990 they had engaged Martha Wash to perform vocals on a number of tracks which, Ms Wash was apparently told, were ostensibly for club consumption and weren’t for mass-release. One would be “Everybody, Everybody,” which would become one of their two top ten hits in North America.

Their first single “Ride on Time” was a hit around the world, making Top 10 in many countries and No.1 in the UK, soon becoming the UK’s best-selling single of 1989. The song sampled Holloway’s 1978 disco hit “Love Sensation” - the title comes from a mishearing of the lyrics “Cause you’re right on time”. “Love Sensation” was written by Dan Hartman who was unaware his song had been sampled by Black Box. According to Hartman’s attorney, Black Box ended up having to give Hartman a good percentage of the royalties.

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wickedsalvation wrote:
last month

Vote for the real singer http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Box/+images?sort=date

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wickedsalvation wrote:
last month

I agree these pictures are ridiculous not of the band or real singer, just an acting model

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Gochir wrote:
August 2009

this is martha walsh: http://www.lastfm.es/music/Black+Box/+images/34069359 what do u prefer? the real voice or the real image of black box?

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Are_You_Serious wrote:
July 2009

groovy

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BlackBoxHouse wrote:
July 2009

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hypnoed wrote:
April 2009

a voice to die for

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S0lidShake wrote:
March 2009

fuck yeah!

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discotequedude wrote:
March 2009

Martha Wash did all the vocal duties except on "Ride On Time" is credit correctly to Loleatta Holloway. I agree that ALL photos of this model should be replaced with photos of Martha Wash! Black Box would have been nothing at all without her charistic, distinctive, exburance voice!

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Madoxmen wrote:
February 2009

all the 90's dance groups took a handsome girl as an image , snap! , tecnotronic, and more more ... That matters? the important thing is his music, they are not groups to play directly, Katrin Quinol was the face of black box and she defended very well the group , this not a insult, In 1995 black box extracted another record ( positive vibration), with a new singer, not very embellished physically and the failure was very big....., it 's a shame but nowadays the image is very important also

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kozacka2000 wrote:
January 2009

I Remember ...

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Robbocock wrote:
December 2008

This was number 1 in the UK on the week I was born =). Great song ^^

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kakktus wrote:
December 2008

I love Black Box, but c'mon, someone needs to delete all those pix! It's an insult to everyone involved. Katrin Quinol did nothing!

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floresvicdan74 wrote:
December 2008

everybody go black box moment nostalgi of live

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Archivman wrote:
November 2008

Black Box stole Loleatha Halloways Right On Time. It is here voice. They used a model for the video. Dan Hartman who wroute the song and Loleatha halloway did not get a penny for it.

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LQQKIE wrote:
October 2008

Dreamland was and still is a great album

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hunnybunny21 wrote:
September 2008

when i have a dance-a-thon in my house those top 3 songs will def. be in heavy rotation.

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withoutx wrote:
August 2008

They are so great here http://allofflyrics.info/search.php

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kedzierxD wrote:
March 2008

Martha Wash!!! :) Black Box ithe best :D !

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patrick76uk wrote:
January 2008

fantasy is a classic FABULOUS X 2

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PARKERsp wrote:
January 2008

Fantastic voice,fantastic samplers! I love this group! Dance,dance,dance!

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