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‘Nobody believed I sang it’: how Move Your Body blew dancefloors away

It became a Chicago house anthem classic – and it was cooked up in just 30 minutes by four postal workers after a tough shift on the letter-sorting machine

My post office friends Curtis McClain, Rudy Forbes and Thomas Carr and I laid down a rough mix in 30 minutes. Move Your Body was the first house recording made with piano on it but Love Can’t Turn Around [by Farley “Jackmaster” Funk and Jesse Saunders featuring Darryl Pandy] came out before it. Finally, when we did a show at the Power House, people realised it was me, but as recently as two years ago Move Your Body was listed as eighth in a music magazines’s Greatest Dance Songs of All Time – with the vocal wrongly credited to someone else.

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