From the 1977 album Loleatta (not to be confused with the 1973 album of the same name). While Love Sensation is probably the first song title that trips off the lips of most people that are asked to name a Loleatta Holloway song, its gems like Hit & Run that help cement her legend and pave the way for her later success. It reached no.11 on the Billboard Dance chart in the same year.
Taken from her album of the same name. The song was produced and written by Dan Hartman, arranged by Norman Harris, and mixed by Tom Moulton. It was a hit on the U.S.Hot Dance Club Play chart, where the song spent a week at number 1 in September 1980.
Parts of the song have been sampled and re-used in songs such as Ride on Time(Holloway's vocal as well as the Salsoul Orchestra's instrumental portions) by Black Box. Not so much a sample by Black Box as a complete rip off; she nor writer Dan Hartman were not paid any royalties for the samples. They even got Catherine Quinol, a French model to mime the song on TV appearances, something Holloway wasn't happy about. Eventually, they had to pay a large amount of royalties to her and writer Hartman when they sued them.
Others include:
I Wanna Have Some Fun by Samantha Fox
I Don't Know Anybody Else by Black Box/Martha Wash.
Grand Piano by Mixmaster
Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
We All Feel Better in the Dark by the Pet Shop Boys
Move by Moby
Take Me Away by Cappella
Take Me Away by 2 in a Room (using the same sample as Cappella)
(You Got Me) Burnin' Up by Cevin Fisher
A cover of the Style Council song; this takes it in a completely different direction, similar to what the chimes did with U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.
