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Whigfield
Sannie Charlotte Carlson was born in Denmark in 1970, and hit stardom when "Saturday Night" became a worldwide smash in the Year Of Our Lord 1994. My favourite Whigfield songs are "Saturday Night", "Think Of You" and "Beep Beep".
Whigfield - the Gina G Years
"Saturday Night" came out of nowhere, with its dance routine and cheap but press-all-the-buttons video (Whigfield in a towel) and became the first ever single by a non-UK artist to go straight in at Number 1 in the UK. It was masterminded by two Italian producers, Larry Pignagnoli and Davide Riva, who would later "bring" the world Ann-Lee (but that's a story for another time). Hitching a ride on the back of the mid-nineties Euro dance bandwagon, Whigfield charted with further hits, "Another Day", "Think Of You" and the ballad (yike!) "Close To You", before bowing out with a double A single at Christmas, a cover of Wham's "Last Christmas" (you have to hear it) backed with "Big Time". "Sexy Eyes" was bigger than a Rustie Lee picnic hamper in Europe, but oddly unreleased here. She's had more hits than you think! In fact, you probably remember Whigfield as a one-hit wonder to sit alongside Black Lace and that song about a deckchair up your nose. BUT YOU'D BE WRONG. The bloody woman has stacks of albums. "Whigfield 4" anyone?
Some Whigfield CD's, yesterday. "Whigfield 2", arriving in 1997, brought us "Whiggy Whiggle" (which we surely NEED), the European hit "Gimme Gimme" and "Saturday Night '97" (natch). "Whigfield 3" (you see what she did there) featured her last major hit to date, "Doo-Whop" (though they'd long since given up the ghost in the UK by this point) and the damn megamix which had been kicking around since the start, when you could get it if you bought the first album in Woolworths. It's so long that no-one has ever got to the end.
There were Milli Vanilla-eseque accusations levelled at Sannie, that she didn't sing on her records - based on the fact that this mimed all the time. This overlooked the fact that the vocals were actually so bad that surely they would have got a better singer in if it wasn't her. She was slayed by the law of diminishing
returns in the UK - You could literally sing "Saturday Night" over
"Another Day", and while "Think Of You" and "Close To You" were great,
they showed up her tinny little voice. The Christmas market claimed her
career in the UK the same year she arrived.
Slutty!
In 2005 Sannie sang and WROTE (yes!) on the Benassi Bros album "Phobia", "crafting" two songs - "Feel Alive" and "Rocket In The Sky". She recorded the tracks under the name "Naan", the silly moo. The last time anyone heard from Sannie in her Whigfield guise to date was this wonderful item released early in 2006:
That old trick. If you want the Abigails Party Remix of "Saturday Night" or the French version of "Was A Time", it's only $38.
This "Greatest Hits" thing has the most amazing cover of all time. It follows the Three Golden Rules of Lost Artists Greatest Hits Albums, namely: 1. The big hit is here. Hurrah! 2. The 'I don't remember that one' tracks take over from about track 6 onwards 3. One big hit is inexplicably missing. Whither "Close to You"? And "Last Christmas" actually. The German "Greatest Hits" is different and has "Get Get Get" on it. That smash. There's also THIS:
It's for us! And THIS:
AND THIS!!!111!1!OMG!!
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