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"(Can You) Feel the Passion" is a 1991 rave-theme House song recorded, written, and produced by the American/British group
Blue Pearl Blue Pearl are an English electronic music duo consisting of American female singer Durga McBroom and British musician Youth (Martin Glover). They charted six times on the UK singles chart and had two songs reach the US ''Billboard'' Hot Dance ...
. The single is to date the act's second best known song after Naked In The Rain. Can You Feel The Passion had better success in the United States, hitting No. 1 on both Billboard's
Hot Dance Club Play The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...
chart and the
UK Dance Chart The Dance Singles Chart and the Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the electronic dance music, dance music genre (e.g. house music, house, trance music, trance, ...
in 1992, while reaching No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart.


Background

The single is done in a spoken word type manner by lead singer
Durga McBroom Durga McBroom is an American singer who has performed backing vocals for Pink Floyd and is a member of the house music band Blue Pearl, best known for their hit single " Naked in the Rain". She works as an actress, dancer, and singer in the Uni ...
, while the hook, riffs, and chorus melody written by Durga was augmented by
Youth Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood (Maturity (psychological), maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as bei ...
on the keyboards, and samples from
Bizarre Inc Bizarre Inc were an English techno/house group. Formed in 1989 as a duo between English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of the same name), they later re-formed as a trio consisting of Me ...
's " Playing with Knives." Ironically, club DJs have used both "(Can You) Feel the Passion" and "Playing With Knives" in their bootleg mashups due to the former providing the lyrics and the latter's piano-heavy house feel.


Track listing

; CD Maxi (US) # "(Can You) Feel The Passion" (Youth Mix) (5:48) # "(Can You) Feel The Passion" (U.S. Mix) (3:25) # "(Can You) Feel The Passion" (Adrenalin Mix) (5:35) # "(Can You) Feel The Passion (House Mix)" (6:23) # "(Can You) Feel The Passion (Zen Mix)" (6:03)


See also

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List of number-one dance singles of 1992 (U.S.) ''Billboard'' magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played sing ...


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