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How Cascada’s ‘Everytime We Touch’ Turned a 1992 Scottish Single Into a Duke Basketball Anthem

In 20 years, Cascada's 2005 smash 'Everytime We Touch' turned Maggie Reilly's 1992 song into a Duke basketball anthem and a generational dance hit.

In fact, just two months before they released “Everytime,” Robbins earned a Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit with Belgian dance group DHT’s cover of Roxette’s “Listen to Your Heart,” which they dropped back in 2003. Making good on his promise to incorporate students’ suggestions and nourishing the top 40 proclivities he teased with the prior year’s interpretation of Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” Au quickly wrote an “Everytime” arrangement. He says it only took “three or four games” for the song to cement itself as a staple, and legend has it, that’s about how long it took for the accompanying student-crafted pseudo-choreography – dramatic slow claps during the verses and manic fist pumps during the chorus — to spread across the Cameron Crazies.

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