“Dancing In The Moonlight” — Toploader
For a song that’s over 50 years old, “Dancing In The Moonlight” is an enduringly popular dreamy tune that’s hard not to like.
It’s currently undergoing yet another revival with a cover by Jubel ft. NEIMY all over the UK’s cooler radio stations at the moment. And it’s a great version of the song too, with the hypnotic dreaminess meter turned right up to 11.
When I heard Jubel’s version for the first time a few weeks ago, I instantly thought back to the Toploader version of “Dancing In The Moonlight” which was a pretty sizeable hit for them in the UK 20-odd years ago.
I very much enjoyed Toploader’s version of “Dancing In The Moonlight” too, and vaguely remember being told it was a cover at the time, but I had no recollection of ever hearing the original and, I must admit, in the intervening 20 years it’s never been the number one item on my “to do” list, so I never did get round to tracking down the original.
At least I hadn’t until a couple of hours ago when, inspired by my most recent hearing of Jubel and NEIMY’s lovely version, I decided “Dancing In The Moonlight” was going to be the next song I’d write about.
In my defence, the reason I hadn’t heard the original was firstly because it was never a hit in the UK, and also it was a bit before my time too.
