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Cathy Dennis (born March 25 1969 in Norwich, England) is a Grammy Award winning dance-oriented pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress.
She subsequently scored three solo Top 20 UK / Top 10 U.S. hits and had considerable success in Japan in the early 1990s with "Just Another Dream" (#13 UK, #9 U.S., #14 Australia), "Touch Me (All Night Long)" (#5 UK, #2 U.S., #16 Australia), which is probably her most remembered hit to date, and "Too Many Walls" (#17 UK, #8 U.S., #57 Australia).
Subsequent releases were only minor hits. Her final Top 40 hit in the U.S. was "You Lied to Me" in 1992, and her final Top 40 hit in the UK was "Waterloo Sunset", which made #11 during 1997. That same year her last solo single "When Your Dreams Turn To Dust", peaked in the UK at #43.
"Touch Me (All Night Long)" stayed at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, and was kept out of the #1 spot by Hi-Five's "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" the first week and Mariah Carey's "I Don't Wanna Cry" the second week. The song was a cover of a 1985 single by Wish featuring Fonda Rae, which had hit #70 on the U.S. R&B chart that year. "Touch Me" did reach #1 on the U.S. Dance chart, and its follow-up, "Too Many Walls," which Dennis co-wrote with Anne Dudley of Art of Noise, was a #1 Adult Contemporary hit. It was around this time Dennis agreed to join MTV Club's first tour, booked for six weeks. She dropped out on the third date, later publicly accusing one of Milli Vanilli's members (the tour's headline act) of sexual harassment. During this period, she recorded a song called "Find the Key to Your Life" with David Morales for the film soundtrack to movie .
Dennis released her second album, Into The Skyline, in December 1992 written with an aim toward the U.S. market. The album featured the singles "You Lied To Me", "Irresistible", "Falling" and "Why [D Mob with Cathy Dennis]". The album got to #8 in the UK, whilst in the U.S., "You Lied to Me" was a Top 40 hit and "Irresistible" made the Adult Contemporary Top Ten; however, the album descended the chart rapidly. Dennis experienced a brief peak of fame, making a cameo in Beverly Hills, 90210 singing the song "Moments of Love" (a minor U.S. AC chart hit), "Why" and "Touch Me (All Night Long)". In Japan the album was called Into the Skyline +1, and featured three extra tracks, "Nothing Moves Me", a previous b-side, and two tracks that were both released as singles, "It's My Style" and "Love's a Cradle."
Dennis started to record her third album Inspiration. The title track was recorded with Todd Terry, along with another song "Is There Life After You", plus other songs as yet unknown. She decided to stop recording this album and only one song from the sessions has ever been released, "SOS", which can be found on the Beverly Hills 90210, The College Years soundtrack.
Dennis made her first attempt at co-writing a song for Dannii Minogue called "Love's on Every Corner".
In 1996 Dennis changed musical track away from the dance-pop sound of previous releases, to a more traditional singer-songwriter approach. The resulting album Am I the Kinda Girl? was more in keeping with the Britpop sound of bands such as Blur and performers such as Stephen Duffy, and featured collaborations with Guy Chambers of The Lemon Trees and Andy Partridge of XTC. However, even though a couple of singles charted in the UK (including a Number 11 cover of Ray Davies' "Waterloo Sunset"), the album failed to make much inroads into the album charts.
Dennis' recorded a track that appeared on the OST Robin Hood Men in Tights singing "Marian (Duet Version) - Cathy Dennis & Lance Ellington".
In recent years, her greatest success has come as a songwriter: in 1996 she co-wrote "Bumper to Bumper", which was the B-Side to Spice Girls' first hit single "Wannabe". Six of her compositions have reached number one in Britain. "Never Had a Dream Come True" and "Have You Ever", written with Chris Braide (both recorded by S Club 7), "Anything Is Possible" (recorded by Will Young), and "Toxic" (recorded by Britney Spears) all reached number one, with "Toxic" and "Never Had a Dream Come True" also hitting the Top 10 in the United States. Her highest-selling composition, "Can't Get You out of My Head" (recorded by Kylie Minogue), spent four weeks at number one in Britain, rekindled interest in Minogue in America, where it hit #7 on the Hot 100, and sold over three million copies worldwide to become the world's second highest selling single in 2001. Her sixth and most recent penned number one single is "About You Now" which hit number one in September 2007 on downloads alone for The Sugababes.
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" also won Dennis an Ivor Novello Award for the year's most performed composition. She also won this award two years later for "Anything Is Possible" (Cathy Dennis,Chris Braide). In the US, Cathy received the Billboard Award for Female Artist of the Year in 1991. Her highest musical accolade state-side is the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for "Come Into My World" recorded by Kylie Minogue (who is also a recipient of the award).
She co-wrote the Pop Idol theme for the television series, and in Britain and the United States contestants Will Young, Gareth Gates, Kelly Clarkson, and Clay Aiken have recorded her songs as their first singles. Other artists who have recorded her songs include Dannii Minogue, Delta Goodrem, Céline Dion, Spice Girls, Emma Bunton, Ronan Keating, Rachel Stevens,Janet Jackson,Thalia, Hear'Say, S Club Juniors, P!nk, Brooke Hogan, Michelle McManus, Hooverphonic and Jentina.
She has recently collaborated with the British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and song-writer Greg Kurstin, on a track called "Catch You", the first track Sophie hadn't been involved with the writing of since her days in theaudience. It peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart.
As of 2007, it has been confirmed that Cathy has been working with Roisin Murphy on her second solo album due to be released sometime in 2007, and that she co-wrote with Dr Luke and Jack Splash a song called "All The Way" for the next album of Britney Spears. She has also worked with Dr Luke and the Sugababes on their number one single About You Now. She has also co-written a track for Kylie Minogue's forthcoming studio album, "X", entitled "Sensitized".
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Career
Dennis achieved her first success as a vocalist with Dancin' Danny D's dance project D Mob, when their single "C'mon and Get My Love" reached #15 in the UK Singles Chart and #10 in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990. Originally, it had only reached #93 (UK). It is regarded as an underground classic in the dance music field, and a second collaboration with D Mob, "That's The Way Of The World," was also a major dance hit. It was followed by Dennis' debut album, Move to This.She subsequently scored three solo Top 20 UK / Top 10 U.S. hits and had considerable success in Japan in the early 1990s with "Just Another Dream" (#13 UK, #9 U.S., #14 Australia), "Touch Me (All Night Long)" (#5 UK, #2 U.S., #16 Australia), which is probably her most remembered hit to date, and "Too Many Walls" (#17 UK, #8 U.S., #57 Australia).
Subsequent releases were only minor hits. Her final Top 40 hit in the U.S. was "You Lied to Me" in 1992, and her final Top 40 hit in the UK was "Waterloo Sunset", which made #11 during 1997. That same year her last solo single "When Your Dreams Turn To Dust", peaked in the UK at #43.
"Touch Me (All Night Long)" stayed at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, and was kept out of the #1 spot by Hi-Five's "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" the first week and Mariah Carey's "I Don't Wanna Cry" the second week. The song was a cover of a 1985 single by Wish featuring Fonda Rae, which had hit #70 on the U.S. R&B chart that year. "Touch Me" did reach #1 on the U.S. Dance chart, and its follow-up, "Too Many Walls," which Dennis co-wrote with Anne Dudley of Art of Noise, was a #1 Adult Contemporary hit. It was around this time Dennis agreed to join MTV Club's first tour, booked for six weeks. She dropped out on the third date, later publicly accusing one of Milli Vanilli's members (the tour's headline act) of sexual harassment. During this period, she recorded a song called "Find the Key to Your Life" with David Morales for the film soundtrack to movie .
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Cover of Dennis' Into the Skyline album.
Dennis started to record her third album Inspiration. The title track was recorded with Todd Terry, along with another song "Is There Life After You", plus other songs as yet unknown. She decided to stop recording this album and only one song from the sessions has ever been released, "SOS", which can be found on the Beverly Hills 90210, The College Years soundtrack.
Dennis made her first attempt at co-writing a song for Dannii Minogue called "Love's on Every Corner".
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Cover of Dennis' Am I the Kinda Girl? album.
Dennis' recorded a track that appeared on the OST Robin Hood Men in Tights singing "Marian (Duet Version) - Cathy Dennis & Lance Ellington".
In recent years, her greatest success has come as a songwriter: in 1996 she co-wrote "Bumper to Bumper", which was the B-Side to Spice Girls' first hit single "Wannabe". Six of her compositions have reached number one in Britain. "Never Had a Dream Come True" and "Have You Ever", written with Chris Braide (both recorded by S Club 7), "Anything Is Possible" (recorded by Will Young), and "Toxic" (recorded by Britney Spears) all reached number one, with "Toxic" and "Never Had a Dream Come True" also hitting the Top 10 in the United States. Her highest-selling composition, "Can't Get You out of My Head" (recorded by Kylie Minogue), spent four weeks at number one in Britain, rekindled interest in Minogue in America, where it hit #7 on the Hot 100, and sold over three million copies worldwide to become the world's second highest selling single in 2001. Her sixth and most recent penned number one single is "About You Now" which hit number one in September 2007 on downloads alone for The Sugababes.
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" also won Dennis an Ivor Novello Award for the year's most performed composition. She also won this award two years later for "Anything Is Possible" (Cathy Dennis,Chris Braide). In the US, Cathy received the Billboard Award for Female Artist of the Year in 1991. Her highest musical accolade state-side is the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for "Come Into My World" recorded by Kylie Minogue (who is also a recipient of the award).
She co-wrote the Pop Idol theme for the television series, and in Britain and the United States contestants Will Young, Gareth Gates, Kelly Clarkson, and Clay Aiken have recorded her songs as their first singles. Other artists who have recorded her songs include Dannii Minogue, Delta Goodrem, Céline Dion, Spice Girls, Emma Bunton, Ronan Keating, Rachel Stevens,Janet Jackson,Thalia, Hear'Say, S Club Juniors, P!nk, Brooke Hogan, Michelle McManus, Hooverphonic and Jentina.
She has recently collaborated with the British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and song-writer Greg Kurstin, on a track called "Catch You", the first track Sophie hadn't been involved with the writing of since her days in theaudience. It peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart.
As of 2007, it has been confirmed that Cathy has been working with Roisin Murphy on her second solo album due to be released sometime in 2007, and that she co-wrote with Dr Luke and Jack Splash a song called "All The Way" for the next album of Britney Spears. She has also worked with Dr Luke and the Sugababes on their number one single About You Now. She has also co-written a track for Kylie Minogue's forthcoming studio album, "X", entitled "Sensitized".
Discography
Albums
- Move To This (1990) UK # 3, US # 67
- Everybody Move (To the Mixes) (Remix-Album) (1991)
- Into the Skyline (1992) UK # 8
- Am I the Kinda Girl? (1996) UK # 78
- The Irresistible Cathy Dennis (2000)
Singles
| Year | Song | UK singles | US Hot 100 | US Dance | US AC | Australia | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | "C'Mon And Get My Love" (with D-Mob) | 15 | 10 | 1 | - | 35 | Move To This |
| 1989 | "Just Another Dream" | 93 | - | - | - | - | Move To This |
| 1990 | "That's The Way Of The World" (with D-Mob) | 48 | 59 | 1 | - | 98 | A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That |
| 1990 | "Just Another Dream" (reissue) | 95 | 9 | - | - | - | Move To This |
| 1991 | "Touch Me (All Night Long)" | 5 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 16 | Move To This |
| 1991 | "Just Another Dream" (2nd reissue) | 13 | - | 2 | - | 14 | Move To This |
| 1991 | "Too Many Walls" | 17 | 8 | - | 1 | 57 | Move To This |
| 1991 | "Everybody Move" | 25 | 90 | 41 | - | 85 | Move To This |
| 1992 | "You Lied To Me" | 34 | 32 | 12 | - | - | Into the Skyline |
| 1992 | "Irresistible" | 24 | 61 | - | 6 | - | Into the Skyline |
| 1993 | "Falling" | 32 | - | - | - | - | Into the Skyline |
| 1993 | "Moments of Love" | - | - | - | 8 | - | Into the Skyline |
| 1994 | "Why" (with D-Mob) | 23 | - | - | - | - | Into the Skyline |
| 1996 | "West End Pad" | 25 | - | - | - | - | Am I the Kinda Girl? |
| 1997 | "Waterloo Sunset" | 11 | - | - | - | - | Am I the Kinda Girl? |
| 1997 | "When Dreams Turn To Dust" | 43 | - | - | - | - | Am I the Kinda Girl? |
Interesting Cathy Dennis Facts
- Cathy Dennis provided background vocals on PM Dawn's American top ten single and British top twenty single "Looking through Patient Eyes", released in 1993.
- The "Whoa-oh-oh-oh" of the Pop Idol/American Idol theme song is sung by Cathy.
- Dancin' Danny D from D-Mob provided background vocals on "Just Another Dream", but for several years he has been mistaken for the English singer Rick Astley.
See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
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