Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack Your Body

This track, although now gimmicky, proved to be the track that the British youth stood up and said 'Hell Yeah' to American Dance music. House music was widely regarded as a high energy 'gay scene' sound that had little relevance on dance charts, let alone the national chart. However Steve Silk Hurley completely smashed this with his release Jack Your Body, which is now a seminal release, a record which lauched the UK dance scene. It was cool for people to go out and 'jack' to music from the US, forging this important culture and Chicago / Detroit House and Techno. It should not be forgotten the brilliance of this release, it gave meaning to my life and launched a 1000 copies!

Jack Your Body indeed! May it live forever ;-)

I remember hearing it at my local record store and it blew me away.. It was a simple track but the "Jack, Jack, Jack your Body" sample killed it.. I later saw it on a video my cousin sent me from London.. had a Top of the Pops episode on the tape where Jack your Body was No.1 on the UK charts..I think it stayed there for like 8 weeks which back then was unheard of for an underground track to stay at No. 1 for so so long

Although this is truly a masterpiece of classic chicago house music, the Monty Remix is really bad.
It speeds up the tempo and tries to be more like techno rave music but in fact the arrangement is chaotic and the cool vibe of the original got lost.

This is truly a house classic. Chicago House from the early days. The bassline is making his way from the needle to the ear directly into your brain. It comes along with vocal phrases, you will never forget. If you haven't heard the record, grab it somewhere.
The BCM Pressing is not hard to find in Germany, every good second hand vinyl dealer is able to sell this historical masterpice to you or try eBay.

Why hasn't anybody said anything about one of THE founding records of the original house sound of Chicago ?
I remember hearing this first in my local recordstore, I stared in disbelief at Miss Djax ( who was working behind the counter ) and we played the record at least five times on a row. I think it changed both our lives a bit.

Heavily based on samples from First Choice's "Let No Man Put Us Under".