Cormac Cashman founder of the Love Sensation Festival joined Mario this week for the Story Behind The Song.  Cormac picked a disco classic by Loleatta Holloway - it`s Love Sensation. 

Cormac describes Love Sensation as an absolute disco banger taken from Loletta Holloways album, of the same name.

For me, Love Sensation has been one of the 4 or 5 seminal tunes the Mother DJs play at the end of the night or closing a festival stage, its a song that brings a crowd together and for us, its created a magical family vibe on stage as the set is closing, and we’re all dancing around like a daft sequinned family.  

It was noted to have been a nightmare for Loleatta to record, describing it  as the  “hardest song she ever worked on” . Cormac tells us this was most likely down to producer Daniel Hartiman who looked for a particular rasp on the song, 30 takes later she could hardly speak but the track was recorded. 

There was also...Drama! Black Box used a sample from the song for their belter "Ride on time". They Used Holloways vocal,and if you listen to that song it is the vocal that makes it...but they didn`t credit her!

Cormac tells us there seems to be conflicting stories about the aftermath. One story is that Hartiman and Holloway sued, in the other Holloways media people launched a press campaign and didn’t go legal, but was settled with an undisclosed sum.  

One thing is for sure - we are dancing to this tune and you may well very well hear it at the Love Sensation Festival 17th and 18th August at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham!

Details of the festival here!

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