C-Bank with Eleanore Mills - Get wet 1983

[gmccall22]

Better singer than Jenny Burton

[peggy986]

This is electro all the way...now called freestyle.

[Freezehhc]

Funhouse classic!!  Jellybean was a genuis!

[boriquawill]

early 80's in the fun house in nyc,ny . i used to dance he webo dance

[Taino871]

Listen to the lyrics about " Getting wet " , HOT!

[FinestFellaz]

Sounds pretty familiar. Remember what you like. I remember how it was like. It was great.

[tallman145]

1983 was one of the better years for music like this

[ukfresh86]

This was on the first ever Street Sounds Electro LP which started it all!

See you at the 'STREET SOUNDS UK FRESH REUNION' at Scala, London, 16th July where Electro Legends CAPTAIN ROCK, NEWCLEUS, THE B BOYS & GRANDMIXER DST & more will be performing live! Plus Bboying, Graffiti and DJs spinning all your faves, including this one of course!

Visit streetsounds.co

[agfagaevart]

@ukfresh86

NOT AT £35 A TICKET YOU WON'T!!!

[MrScorpio]

Detroit is VERY wet.

[gmccall22]

She's a better singer than Jenny Burton

[oldschoolbx1970]

Thanks for posting this joint on here. I was geeting set for the 7th grade when this aired on 98.7 KIss FM(WRKS),107.5 FM(WBLS),and of course the original WKTU from when it was on 92.3 FM. Speaking of 98.7 Kiss FM,does anyone happen to have the mastermix of this? If so,please post it. Thanks.

[Executor2012]

JOHN ROBIE LEAD THE WAY TO THE FREESTYLE MOVEMENT OF THE 1980'S

[kenrokycb]

.......Get Wet - Bay 6 Brooklyn - CBank - summer madness at the beach - .... too much fun in the sun. Ken Swift, YCB, RSC. 7G.

[bboydrila1]

absolutey brill tune,.reminds me of breakin in the park on a sunday afternoon

[stuntcock09]

Just awesome

[Nikdefreshgirl]

Tune and a half .

[otpagan]

The Super pop lockin Jam you B-boys know

[dream8256]

da shyt!!

[megatronman101]

It made my day...thank you for posting

[oldschoolbx1970]

If anyone happens to have the 98.7 Kiss mastermix version of this joint,can you please post it? Thanks.

[gmccall22]

She's a better singer than Jenny Burton

[TsunamiTsam]

BRAXXX !! Two in a row !

[drwiggleston]

I love this jam so freakin much! For about 6 minutes Im 13, in a pair of Lee's (remember the patch on the back) and Puma's. Priceless!

Also, getting wet back then was a term used to describe smoking dust or lacing it with something else, wasnt that a woola? Been a while. Thanks so much for this post!

[stresswun1]

@drwiggleston yeah son we called em woolahs and woolies hahahhah but i dint smoke em it was coke or crack mixed wit weed!!

[goblinb]

@drwiggleston Ha! Shows you how much I know-I thought it meant something sexual!

[xxdjcharlierockxx]

yeh this was hot back in my day!

[Megafoot2164]

Some of that electronic/futuristic sound was the anticipation of the coming milleniuem and what we were told it would bring . Things like a shorter work week,an end to poverty, cures for diseases, space travel,an end to war and robots to do everything. There is still some music along these lines in the 80's that i havn't found yet . These things never materialized things have pretty much stayed the same , but the youth culture at time were given the seeds by the powers that were at that time.

[stresswun1]

@Megafoot2164 yeah you right that mixed wit reaganism....addd some coke and bang!!! hip hop is born!!!!

[goblinb]

@Megafoot2164 A shorter work week-if only.........

[lacrazia3]

Oh Man this was my jam! Get Wet drippin on me! Thanks for posting!

[Rule138]

Ah yeah, old school dance .... Fun house.....

[delbert3302]

you can down load this from youtube - if you have firefox browser and 'download helper'-

[AndinoVictor]

we realy get wetin candelaria dancing 2 dis wiht baron lopez playing dis shit here de best time in my live freestyle olso dj ray i carrito de best house n freestyle djs in puerto rico . by victor andino

[miapec]

where can i download this?

[AndinoVictor]

if u find out let me know brou das is bad music hala dj vic from puerto rico

[kylehaith1]

club zanzibar, tony humphries, merlin bobb, and Boyd jarvis...what more needs to be said...classic...I'm going to bye some 1200's tomorrow!

[xxdjcharlierockxx]

@kylehaith1 wow now those names are throw backs....i think tony was credited with the creation of the mastermix nice to hear those names mentioned ....too bad i was too young for the fun house or zanzibar...

[CanarsieBrooklyn]

One of my all time favs,,,nice post.

[electrozaps]

@ quweets 417..... im very aware of the double entendre nature of the lyrics ;-)

[chucharaO2]

This sounds a lot like "Looking for the perfect beat"

[OsamaBinDisco]

interesting how this was not considered freestyle, yrt it has the same repetitive beat, i guess in 1983 the term freestyle hadnt been coined yet...

[jm822]

it was the original hip hop which evolved into freestyle

[OsamaBinDisco]

original hip hop? hardly, freestlye was a sub genre of disco....

[romarius2005]

Disco...Freestyle....it was considered Black music back in the day they played this on black radio stations.....

[romarius2005]

And if it wasn't for disco we wouldn't have the styles of music that we have out right now if that's what you wanna call music lol, but freestyle was considered Hip-hop it was played with R&B and Hip-Hip songs in the clubs back in the day

[Therealanimale]

But it sure wasn't called freestyle back in the days. That term didn't even exist. This was called hip hop or electro back in the days, that's why it was also featured on one of the famous Electro albums of the 80's. That's how many got to know music they otherwise would not have discovered.

[goblinb]

@Therealanimale You hit it on the nose. Freestyle wasnt coined as a term till a few years later. It was electro first, which was a sub-genre of hip hop. I know its hard to think of this as being hip-hop for people nowadays, but thats what it was back then.

[Executor2012]

@Therealanimale I agree... The term "freestyle" came about in the mid 80's because of the NYC LATIN influrence, and the Breakbeats that was in the songs..FREESTYLE IS HIP-HOP!!!

[oldschoolbx1970]

@OsamaBinDisco A lotta breakers and poppers also did their thing to this and other certain freestyle joints from 1982- early 1985.

[dream8256]

@OsamaBinDisco Electro hip hop...

[nesNYC]

@OsamaBinDisco There was no such things as 'sub' genres in those days. Electro-hip hop was the continuation of disco as you can trace most of these bands right back to the 70's. They only progressed the sound a bit when the 303 came out.

But Hip Hop came right out of disco too and 'Electro-hip hip' was simply an extension.

Listen to "It's yours" by T La Rock and you'll hear the electro riffs in there.

[2maxxjazz]

@nesNYC Listen to "It's yours" by T La Rock and you'll hear the electro riffs in there.

wHERE IS ALL GONE !!!!!1??? it was a conspiracy to end a power sound coming from the street again !!!

[goblinb]

@OsamaBinDisco

Actually it came more from Electro-pop and synth pop, Kraftwerk primarily, also early Human League and Yellow Magic Orchestra, which in turn influenced Arthur Baker, John Robie, and Afrika Bambataa-who created "Planet Rock"-and the rest is history.

[teenoid1]

@goblinb - This is a classic John Robie production and his productions changed the face of club music as we know it today, the man's an innovative genius. Yeah maybe Kraftwerk where electronic pioneers but the truth is they had no SOUL brother, these tracks have it in abundance, listen & feel man !!!! ;-)

[goblinb]

@teenoid1 Well, if I've heard correctly Kraftwerk's Numbers/Computer World charted on the R&B charts back in 81 and was a b-boy hit, believe it or not. Some DJ or music writer described them as "So stiff, they're funky (ie so white they're black)".

But I totally agree about John Robie. Total genius. His songs are works of art.  To bad there is no one producing nowadays as good.

[teenoid1]

@goblinb I hear you, and I ain't disrespecting Kraftwerk and those early electronic pioneers coz' i'm a huge fan of them myself. But I just think that Robie, Baker, Bambaattaa & Jellybean et 'al' 'took that electro sound to a place that others could never have done, they injected soul & funk and moved it to another level beyond what the earlier artists could have ever imagined.

And I hear you there too, wish there were more producers around like Robie today, dance music would be more exciting..

[goblinb]

@teenoid1 I agree as well, they definitely put their stamp and style one it and made it what it is.

[bigpoluka]

@goblinb WOW! Hardly anyone even knows this! I had that exposure when living in Asia and hearing it in the 80"s. Of course Japan ruled the 80"s financially so it made sense at the moment.

[goblinb]

@bigpoluka I didnt hear this till a few years ago!

[kaaspur2]

Been looking for this track a long time.... brings back memmories of a NYC vacation back in those days.... Thanks !!

[apauln]

W O  W !!!!!!!

[DEZINE5]

HIP HOP ANTHEM OF THE EARLY AND MID 80'S

[Therealanimale]

It got famous in Europe thx to the electro albums. That brought us so many great tracks we otherwise would never have known back then.

Look how many songs 'we're discovering from those days that we missed all those years!

[Executor2012]

John Robie was underrated by many ,Thanks for the memories.....

[DeLeeJay12]

That's how I love my women. Drip it on me.

[DncnBoy]

Ummm.....err ummm..can you hear this song? Elenor Mills is killing that vocal, she does 2 kinds of Raps and she'sm singing some of the harmony. What a pro..its a shame dance records stopped having professional singers sing them, you didn't get caught on " her voice" so much and listened to the whole song...and yes so many records from back then were really about sex but they didn't have to curse or use bad language, this song is a damn song about being horny!! Qweets you said it..

[jrod29904]

How great is this song? C-bank is one of the most underrated freestyle artist of all time. I love that you can hear the scratches on the vinyl. brings me back.

[Jayndee13]

This is my favorite song. It was a great time 1983. Thank you.

[qweets417]

Electrozap, the lyric are not really corny if you understand the double-entendre.The ambiguity is use to sound simple, but have a meaning that is risque."Sink or swim" is not a reference to a "swim" in water."when I take you in, You'll wonder what you missing."She's not talking about inside the house."Oh my darling i will do IT myself. Get wet" If you need that explained...The music then was not so blatant with sexual overture,but used more of an indistinctly lyrical approach.Listen again.

[stidywoe15]

This was one of my favorite songs back in the day when i hung out in the FUNHOUSE because of the beat. I never really listened to the words but thanks to your comment i just listened for the first time 25 yrs later.

[qweets417]

Still one of my favorite...I too was a music person in the begining of the dance and club days...I did not really listen to the lyrics until Grace Jones "Pull Up To the Bumper" made me more aware of the "Grace" way writer used the words to preform double duty...."Get wet, dripping on me"..one of my favorite request, i mean lines...you can't explain that in public, and don't need to if you have any imagination. The more you listen the more you appreciate and enjoy the words...

[nesNYC]

I would throw wind mills at the rear stage high on .. heheh.. @ the FunHouse... Damn. This song takes me waaaaay back. The beat is fuckin' SICK! Even today, damn.

[stidywoe15]

This was one of my favorite songs back in the day when i hung out in the FUNHOUSE. All I really cared about was the beat but thanks to your comment i listened for the first time in 25 yrs.

[FreestyleFonda]

Freestyle Classic

[electrozaps]

drift in on me :-) lyrics are kinda corny but very clever at the time.

[kute102fm]

OMG, I used to have this 12", then I was stupid enough to lend it to a cousin in El Monte. I regret being so freakin nice sometimes.

Wish I could play this and all my old records again...

[colesimlondonuk]

first 12 inch was zapp rogers ....second 12inch was one more shot from c bank..3rd was wikkki wikki...neucleuse...dam wat a long time ago.

[colesimlondonuk]

one of my old school favourites from way back when i was a kid.....not many tunes can touch me like this one can ..100percent fresh me.....breakkkkdanccceeeeee.

[you2dum]

Such a great mixable classic from back in the day!

[BRODtbr]

Wow, haven't heard this since the 80's

[NADMON]

best songs eva from c bank

[BX2456]

The first freesytle song to hit mainstream!

[Ereck180]

BX2456, I think that this song merged into the freestyle movement after a few years after its release..

[akadjfresh]

Got this on vinyl but its scratched thanks

[1josev82]

80's MUSIC IS THE BEST!!

[lovedavidcook]

awesome! this music is insane.

[24Adrian24]

Wow....I have been literally looking for this one for years....LOVELY post 80sListener...80s music was so hot!