Saturday August 27, 2022 “Wild Wild West” Escape Club
Anyone who has been riding along with Song of the Day may have suspected that we would eventually wind up here, in the ‘wild, wild west’…or maybe the suggestion on Monday that this was where we were heading might have billboarded it.
Although the English band Escape Club would top the charts with their first single in America, like most other eventually successful bands, they were hardly an overnight sensation, having been together and working for five years before their breakthrough.
Escape Club was a London based band consisting of vocalist Trevor Steel, guitarist John Holliday, bass player Johnnie Christo and drummer Milan Zekavica. This song distinguished them as the only British group to have charted #1 in the US while never charting at all in the UK. In the US, they also charted with "Shake For The Sheik" (#28 in 1989) and "I'll Be There" (#8 in 1991) the latter song written from the point of view of a recently deceased loved one. The band wrote it for a friend of theirs who had recently lost a close family member.
Critics have noted that, due to the distinct drum beat and vocal patterns during the verses of “Wild Wild West” that portions of the song bear a strong similarity to Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up".
Stay safe and well…and there's some creepy stuff going on in this video which was banned in the UK because of the disturbing visuals.