(I Wanna Give You) Devotion

"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion"
Single by Nomad featuring MC Mikee Freedom
from the album Changing Cabins
Released 1990
Format 12", CD Maxi
Recorded 1990
Genre House, hip house
Length 6:46
Label Capitol (U.S.)
Rumour/EMI (UK)
Writer(s) Damon Rochefort, Steve McCutcheon aka Steve Mac, MC Mikee Freedom
Producer(s) Damon Rochefort
Nomad featuring MC Mikee Freedom singles chronology
"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" "Something Special"
Music video
"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" on YouTube

"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion," was the name of a House/Rave themed club track by the British dance outfit Nomad. The track was a top ten UK hit in 1991, where it reached number 2, and a number 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart single in the United States, where it reached the top spot in June 1991 and stayed there for only one week.[1]

Background

The track was produced by Damon Rochefort, who also shares writing credits with fellow Nomad member Steve McCutcheon and rapper MC Mikee Freedom. It also quotes from the earlier club hit "Devotion" by Ten City. Although Freedom and singer Sharon Dee Clarke were the featured artists on this track when it was released in the United Kingdom and other territories (even though Freedom was the only one to get his name credited), they were listed as uncredited in the US single version up until the act's full-length CD Changing Cabins was released Stateside in the autumn of 1991. Both artists were featured in the video for the track, which had them dressed in body paint while they were performing the song at a rave concert.

The song is notable for being the first song that Steve Mac ever wrote.[2] When asked about the track and its success in an April 2010 interview, Mac said:

"It was a real accident. I just remember struggling to get the drums right - I didn’t really know how to work the sequencer properly. I didn’t have that much knowledge of what I was doing, and I think if I had then it wouldn’t have been as good a track. I love the naiveté of what I was doing back then, and I miss that a little bit now."[2]

In addition to the rap version, there is also a Soul Mix version that features Clarke's vocal performance without the rap. Both versions along with the Italo house version are included on the Changing Cabins CD.

Track listings

12" CD (UK)
12" Maxi CD (UK/US)

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 190.
  2. 1 2 "Interview With Steve Mac". HitQuarters. April 12, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2010.

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Preceded by
"Good Beat" by Deee-Lite		 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
June 29, 1991 		Succeeded by
"Got a Love for You" by Jomanda
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