Movin' On (Bananarama song)

"Movin' On"
Single by Bananarama
from the album Please Yourself
Released	August 1992
Format	7" single, 12" single, CD single
Recorded	July 1991
Genre	Dance
Length	4:36 3:31 (7" Mix)
Label	London Records
Songwriter(s)	Sara Dallin Keren Woodward Mike Stock Pete Waterman
Producer(s)	Mike Stock, Pete Waterman
Bananarama singles chronology
"Tripping on Your Love" (1991) "Movin' On" (1992) "Last Thing on My Mind" (1992)
"Tripping on Your Love" (1991) "Movin' On" (1992) "Last Thing on My Mind" (1992)

"'Movin' On" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. Released in August 1992, it was the first single from the album Please Yourself which shipped in April 1993. This is the first single released by Bananarama as a duo, as Jacquie O'Sullivan had left the group the prior year. It was produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, two-thirds of the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio who had produced a bulk of Bananarama's past hits.

"Movin' On" is a pop song with disco influences, as Stock and Waterman attempted to create an ABBA-like sound for the Please Yourself album. The single met with mixed reviews and moderate success when released, peaking at number twenty-four in the UK singles chart.

The song was later covered by Steps on their second album Steptacular.

In 2012, the song was re-released by Bananarama on their Now or Never EP in a new version.

Music video

The music video, directed by Philippe Gautier, begins with the girls performing from behind a wooden cut-out of the image that appears on the cover of the single. They emerge from behind it in red evening gowns and descend a staircase as scantily clad showboys with feathered fans perform around them. Several muscular men pose on podiums as live Grecian statues.

As a nod to their trademark silliness, they can be seen tussling in the midst of their choreographed descent down the stairs.

At the end, the duo make a languid exit down the long runway of a stage, and then reappear from behind the wooden cut-outs, to the sound of applause.

Remixes

1. "Movin' On" (Album Version) - (4:36)

UK CD 1 single

1. "Movin' On" (7" Mix) - (3:32)
2. "Movin' On" (Bumpin' Mix) - (6:15)

   Remixed by CJ Mackintosh

3. "Treat Me Right" - (4:41)
4. "Movin' On" (Spag-A-Nana Dub) - (6:17)

UK CD 2 single

1. "Movin' On" (Straight No Chaser)
2. "Movin' On" (Bumpin' Mix) - (6:15)

   Remixed by CJ Mackintosh

3. "Movin' On" (Spag-a-Nana Dub) - (6:17)
4. "Treat Me Right" - (4:41)

Charts

References