Friday, 4 April 2025

Oh what a night (1988 remix by Ben Liebrand) - The Four Seasons featuring Frankie Valli

In the second half of the Eighties many classic songs fell victim to the remix fad of the day. Many songs were remixed by DJ's with or without talent. Some results were quite terrible, others made the song slightly more appealing to the audience at the time.

Dutch DJ and producer Ben Liebrand remixed 'Oh what a night' by the Four Seasons featuring Frankie Valli and re-released it as a single. The single didn't chart in 1988, but it was an interesting remix nonetheless.

My collection: 7" single no. 7621
Found: Record fair, Rijswijk, 30 March 2025
Tracks: 'Oh what a night (1988 remix by Ben Liebrand)' / 'Oh what a night (original version)'

2 comments:

  1. I don't agree! There were a lot of good remixes in that period. Some from Ben Liebrand.12 Tavares Heaven Is Missing fev/86
    5 Real Thing You To Me Are Everything (The Decade Remix 76-86) mar/86
    6 Real Thing Can't Get By Without You (The Second Decade Remix) May 1986
    24 Real Thing Can You Feel The Force ('86 remix) Aug 1986
    10 Hot Chocolate You Sexy Thing (remix) jan/87
    31 Temptations Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (remix) Aug 1987
    8 Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5 I Want You Back (remix) Apr 1988
    12 James Brown The Payback Mix Apr 1988
    3 New Order Blue Monday (remix) May 1988
    4 Phil Collins In The Air Tonight (remix) jun/88
    11 Four Tops Reach Out I'll Be There (remix) jul/88
    4 Bill Withers Lovely Day (remix) Sep 1988
    12 Bryan Ferry Let's Stick Together (remix) Oct 1988
    10 Petula Clark Downtown (remix) nov/88
    8 Chaka Khan I'm Every Woman (remix) May 1989
    15 M Pop Muzik (remix) jun/89
    6 Rufus & Chaka Khan Ain't Nobody (remix) jul/89
    3 Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds The Eve Of War (remix) nov/89
    19 Alexander O'Neal Hitmix (Official Bootleg Mega-Mix) Dec 1989
    13 Ram Jam Black Betty (remix) Feb 1990
    15 Sting Englishman In New York (remix) Aug 1990
    3 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John Grease Megamix Dec 1990

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  2. In 1988, Dutch DJ and producer Ben Liebrand remixed the song and re-released it as a single. In 1993, Curb Records, who released the original version of the song, picked up the 1988 remix and released it to the U.S. market. The 1993 re-release spent 27 weeks on the Hot 100 (matching the chart life of the original 1975 single). The peak position of the remix version was #14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December,_1963_(Oh,_What_a_Night)

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