Boomania is back! Earlier this year, Cherry Red’s Cherry Pop imprint reissued GRRR! It’s Betty Boo, the 1992 sophomore album by Alison Clarkson, a.k.a. pop/dance/hip-hop chanteuse Betty Boo. Now, the label has turned the clock back to Boomania, the infectious 1991 debut album by the stylish and genre-bending multiple hyphenate rapper-singer-songwriter-producer. The Beatmasters’ 1989 U.K. No. 7 hit “Hey DJ/I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing)” – based on Martha and the Vandellas’ 1968 hit single “I Can’t Dance to That Music You’re Playin’” penned by Deke Richards and Debbie Dean…
Back To The Nineties: Cherry Red Expands Suggs, Betty Boo To 2 CDs
A recent pair of offerings from Cherry Red Records turns the clock back to the 1990s! Suggs (real name: Graham McPherson) came to fame as the lead singer of ska band Madness before striking out on his own with the 1995 release The Lone Ranger. The album, a No. 14 U.K. hit, has recently been reissued as a 2-CD set with a whopping 23 bonus tracks. The original 11-track album (included in full on Disc One of this release) was largely composed by Suggs with writer/Madness co-founder Mike Barson, with the exception…
