# Id this dance tune from vague video description

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-dance-tune-from-vague-video-description/635224 "2012-09-20T00:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-dance-tune-from-vague-video-description/635224/1 "2012-09-20T00:11:49Z")

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Late 80s, early 90s, maybe. I think it sampled “Everybody Dance Now,” and the video had a middle-aged gent, kinda looking like Isaac Asimov, as a kind of instructor. (But he did not go around proclaiming “Science!”)

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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-dance-tune-from-vague-video-description/635224/2 "2012-09-20T01:25:16Z")

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I introduce you to a potential time-sink of a site: [whosampled.com](http://www.whosampled.com/sampled/C+C%20Music%20Factory/)

Any of the listed songs ring a bell?

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-dance-tune-from-vague-video-description/635224/3 "2012-09-20T01:43:04Z")

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C&C Music Factory “Gonna make you sweat”?

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-dance-tune-from-vague-video-description/635224/4 "2012-09-20T01:44:46Z")

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Thanks. Looks like “Dance Now” by Mosaic might be the song, but I don’t see the same video on youtube.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-dance-tune-from-vague-video-description/635224/5 "2024-11-12T17:05:13Z")

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On the remote chace anyone else was curious about this, I found the answer by accident. [Bingo Boys with “How to Dance” (1991)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX9RVMC1c3o). Also for me to refer to for the next time I forget it.