hands up- ottawan

[cafy1000]

Hi,

On the May 1, 1993 edition of Backtrax USA, a listener requested "Hands Up" by Ottawan and referred to it as "the theme song." What was "Hands up" the theme song to?

thanks

[michaelcasselman]

I've found references to "Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)" being used in a Canadian commercial in the 90s, and another mention of being used for Club Med advertisements, presumably from the early 90s..

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

I know "Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)" was remade by a group called Sway around 1987 or very early 1988. I think it was featured on the 1987 compilation "Hit After Hit" or another compilation album later in 1987.

And the original version by Ottawan did have a Caribbean feel to the song! No wonder it may have been used in the Club Med ads!

Ottawan's song was featured on a 1989 or 1990 compilation album in Canada. Funny, as I would have thought Ottawan was a Canadian group from - where else? - Ottawa.

And I didn't know Backtrax USA existed in the early 1990s. I know, when the top 40 station formerly known as Magic 97 (now a Classic Rock radio station known as K-ROCK) used to play Backtrax USA as early as 1997 up to the end of 2000, and it was devoted to 2 hours of 1980s music. Maybe Backtrax USA was devoted to 1970s music in the early 1990s or something.

HITS-FM picked up Backtrax USA around 2007, and by that time, it was a 4-hour broadcast - devoting the first half to 1980s music, and the latter half being devoted to 1990s music. Maybe Backtrax USA will play music from 2000-2009 by 2017 or something.