Black Legend (music group) explained

Black Legend
Origin:Italy
Genre:House
Years Active:1999–2002
Past Members:Enrico Ferrari
Ciro Sasso
Elroy "Spoonface" Powell

Black Legend was a collaboration between Italian DJs and producers Enrico Ferrari and Ciro Sasso; plus British vocalist Elroy "Spoonface" Powell.

Black Legend's "You See the Trouble with Me" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in June 2000. The chart-topping version featured a karaoke re-recording of the original Barry White vocal by Powell.[1] A follow-up single titled "Somebody", billed as Shortie vs. Black Legend, failed to achieve chart success.

Discography

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
Album
AUS
[2]
FRA
GER
[3]
IRE
[4]
ITA
[5]
NLD
NOR
SWI
UK
US
Dance
2000"You See the Trouble with Me"26213961716202217

Silver[6]

Singles only
"Light My Fire"
2001"Somebody" (vs. Shortie) 7537
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes and References

  1. Book: Roberts, David. 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 60.
  2. http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Black+Legend&titel=You+See+The+Trouble+With+Me&cat=s dutchcharts.nl - Dutch charts portal
  3. Web site: German peak . 2012-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085313/http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/Black+Legend/You+See+the+Trouble+with+Me/single . 2016-03-04 . dead .
  4. http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement Search for Irish peaks
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=8A4EAAAAMBAJ&q=you+see+the+trouble+with+me Italian peak
  6. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx British certification