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"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
Single by C+C Music Factory from the album Gonna Make You Sweat
Released	1990
Format	CD Maxi-single/7" Single
Recorded	1990
Genre	Dance/Hip Hop
Length	4:06
Label	Columbia
Writer	Robert Clivillés Freedom Williams
Producer	David Cole, Robert Clivillés, Freedom Williams and Larry Yasgar
C+C Music Factory singles chronology
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" (1990) "Here We Go" (1991)

"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" was C+C Music Factory's first hit.

The rap was performed by Freedom Williams and the vocal "Everybody Dance Now" by Disco/House Music artist Martha Wash.

Wash, perturbed by the fact that her image had been labeled "unmarketable" because of her physical size, successfully sued to receive proper credit (and royalties). Wash's courtroom efforts spurred legislation making vocal credits mandatory on CDs and music videos.

The song held the top spot in the Billboard Magazine list of popular dance club tunes for five weeks in December 1990, and topped Billboard's Hot 100 Singles list for two weeks in 1991 (February 9 and February 16.)

It was remixed and used, first in French DJ Bob Sinclar's 2006 song "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)" - and then more obscurely in Plastik Funk's Gonna Make You Sweat.

The video featured dancers performing in front of a white back drop. Zelma Davis lip-synchs to the recorded vocals of Martha Wash. A short clip on Double Dutch is shown near the end.

• Used in the movie "The Super" (1991).
• Parodied in the 1994 hip-hop mockumentary "Fear of a Black Hat" as the Ice Cold song "Come and Pet the P.U.S.S.Y." -- the video for which contained an Asian woman clearly lip-syncing to the voice of a large African-American female singer, specifically parodying the appearance of Zelma Davis in the video for the original song.
• Used during the rain dance montage in Chevy Chase film Man of the House.
• Sung and played (on the harmonium) by Borat in Borat's Guide to America, firstly at a yoga session, then later on used during a new age dance class.
• Played in the trailer for the 2006 movie Flushed Away.
• Played in the 2003 movie Old School.
• Played several times in the 2005 documentary Mad Hot Ballroom.
• Used as background music in a steel mill-themed gay club in The Simpsons episode "Homer's Phobia". The song later appeared in "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass".
• Played in Mary-Katherine's dream sequence in the cafeteria in the movie Superstar.
• Used in the 2005 film Jarhead during a "field fuck" scene with the marines.
• Used as background music for the end credits in the 2007 film Evan Almighty.
• Jeffrey Pelehac, "The Dancing Cadet" danced wildly to "Gonna Make You Sweat" in a famous viral video.
• Used in a Second season episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, where Vivian Banks takes dance classes.
• In the film Robots, there is a party scene where this song plays in the background, while the main character's "Wonderbot" is acting strange after being used as a mixing glass by a bartender.
• The song is used to score the dodgeball scene in the 2005 animated film Chicken Little.
• This was the first song to be played on the current WKTU as a dance station in 1996, and KMVQ-FM in the Movin' format in 2006.
• In the second season episode of Will & Grace 'Polk Defeats Truman', Will enters his apartment singing the vocal hook from the track.
• Used in the holiday special "Shrek the Halls", when Donkey is talking about his Christmas/Thanksgiving Parade

• Music video for "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" at YouTube