Let's Dance (Nikki Webster album) explained

Let's Dance
Type:studio
Artist:Nikki Webster
Cover:Nikkiwebsterletsdance.jpg
Alt:The main image shows a three-quarter shot of the artist facing forward. She wears a black and white top and frilly skirt. Her hands are at her waist. Beyond her are four ballet dancers, exercising at a wall with two bars visible. The title is across the top in pink-purple stylised writing. Above is the subtitle, "The Album", in smaller purple-white print. At the right in pink-red is the artist's first name in larger print with hearts for the dots above each "i". Below in smaller print is the second name. The border is pink-purple.
Recorded:2003–2004
Studio:River Studios, Melbourne
Genre:
Label:Gotham
Producer:Chong Lim
Prev Title:Bliss
Prev Year:2002
Next Title:The Best of Nikki Webster
Next Year:2004

Let's Dance is the third studio album by Australian pop singer, Nikki Webster, released on 21 June 2004 by BMG/Gotham Records. It is an album which found Webster working with a different style of music, a range of dance music was added. It peaked at number forty-six on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Webster provided her cover versions of various tracks, which include, "Dancing in the Street" by Martha and the Vandellas, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" by Whitney Houston, "ABC" by The Jackson 5, "My Boy Lollipop" by Millie Small, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer, "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves and "Be Mine" by Wild Orchid.

The front cover was shot at Webster's secondary school, The McDonald College, and includes several of her ballerina friends in the shot. They included Katherine Harper, the then School Captain, with whom Nikki had worked with as part of the Student Prefect team to help raise a record amount for the Exodus Foundation. Other Dancers used include Serena Chalker (Prefect and Dux, 2004), Amanda Platcher, Sara Czarnotta (Vice Captain, 2004), Samantha Jennings and Ann Conolly.

The American comedy film, Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016), included Webster's version of "ABC".[1] However, it was not released with the official soundtrack for the film.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Let's Dance" (Axel Breitung, Delta Goodrem, Mark Holden) – 3:58
  2. "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Hunter, William Stevenson) – 3:53
  3. "ABC" (Alphonso Mizell, Berry Gordy, Frederick Perren, Deke Richards) – 3:04
  4. "My Boy Lollipop" (Morris Levy, Johnnie Roberts) – 3:41
  5. "The Beat of Life" (Georgie Dennis, Rickey Hanley, Sean Creasey) – 3:47
  6. "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (Leo Sayer, Vince Poncia) – 3:09
  7. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (Shannon Roberts, George Merrill) – 4:45
  8. "Zero Gravity" (Pete Kirtley, Tim Hawes, Sean Hosein, Dane Deviller) – 3:21
  9. "Don't Give Up" (Chong Lim, Nikki Webster) – 3:45
  10. "Be Mine" (Hosein, Deviller, Stacy Ferguson, Renee Sandstrom, Stefanie Ridel) – 3:25
  11. "This Is How We Do It" (Dennis, Michael Harwood, Nick Keynes, Jon O'Mahoney) – 3:00
  12. "Walking on Sunshine" (Kimberley Raw) – 4:04

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016) – Soundtrack . . 3 March 2018 .
  2. Web site: Kindergarten Cop 2 Soundtrack (2016) . Autorelics . 3 March 2018 .