Okay… unusual for me, but… I saw Donnie Osmond work it out on one of those t.v. dance shows tonight using the song You Spin Me Round by Dead or Alive. Apparently he and his partner had the 1980s as their decade to represent… and I must admit I sort of gasped. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t like that Donnie was doing it and that it was he who was chosen to represent the 80s. It was that the damn band needed to give this song its props AND PLAY IT RIGHT! This song was part of the launch of the very concept of House Music. At the bare minimum it was infuential to the genre. And I actually think Donnie could have brought the house down had this t.v. show band actually played it even resembling the real thing— and of course if Donnie really let loose on his decades of nay-sayers through some cathartic dance number I’m evidently imagining in my own mind. Hasn’t ol’ Donnie (and Marie too!) endured everyone’s crap for long enough? I’d have liked to see him rip that one open like a gosh dern raptor up in dat hizzy!!!
Here is a real version of You Spin Me Round with a little house-flavuh, from someone who remembers the genuine…