Hot Hot Hot (Radio Edit)

Album

Buster Poindexter

Label

RCA Records

Genre

House

Composer(s)

Alphonsus Cassell

Entered Chart

Dec 12, 1987

Peak Date

Feb 13, 1988

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

RCA 5357

B-Side

Cannibal

Buster Poindexter was a persona of New York Dolls vocalist David Johansen. Under his Poindexter moniker, Johansen performed a mixture of jazz, lounge, calypso, and novelty songs accompanied by The Uptown Horns. This song was initially written and recorded by Montserratian Soca artist Arrow in 1984. Buster Poindexter covered the tune three years later and scored his first hit song. He later complained in an interview with NPR that the tune was "the bane of my existence," due to its long-lasting popularity. David Johansen told Mojo how he came to record the tune: "I had been down in the Caribbean doing Buster and we heard that everywhere for a week, and I thought, 'That's a cool song, let's play that when we get home,'" he said. "Then we recorded it and it was a hit." "I went to my nephew's wedding and they made me sing it - it's excruciating!" Johansen added. "It hardly describes what the rest of the music is about, but you put this thing out there and then people make it what they want it to be for them, and you can't expect anything else." Bill Murray features in the music video. The following year, Johansen co-starred with Murray in the 1988 movie, Scrooged.

Ole ole - ole ole / Ole ole - ole ole
EE-Yessa Ha-ha
Ee-yes girls

Me mind on fire -- Me soul on fire -- Feeling hot hot hot
Party people -- All around me feeling hot hot hot
What to do - On a night like this
Music sweet - I can't resist
We need a party song - A fundamental jam

So we go rum-bum-bum-bum
Yeah we rum-bum-bum-bum
Feeling hot hot hot -- Feeling hot hot hot - oh Lord

(me la la la lum bum bum)
See people rocking -- Hear people chanting -- Feeling hot hot hot
Keep up this spirit -- Come on let's do it -- Feeling hot hot hot
It's in the air - Celebration time
Music sweet - captivate your mind
We have this party song - This fundamental jam

So we go rum-bum-bum-bum
Yeah we rum-bum-bum-bum
Feeling hot hot hot -- Feeling hot hot hot - Oh Lord

Ha-ha
Ole ole - ole ole / Ole ole - ole ole
Ole ole - ole ole / Ole ole - ole ole

EE-yes girls
People in the party - hot hot hot
People in the party - hot hot hot
They come to the party know what they got
They come to the party know what they got
I'm hot -- You're hot -- He's hot -- She's hot
I'm hot -- You're hot -- He's hot -- She's hot
(Real hot) -- (Real hot) -- (Real hot) -- (Real hot)H
a-ha-ha - Oh Lord

How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)
How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)
How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)
How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)

(Hot hot hot)(Hot hot hot)
(Hot hot hot)(Hot hot hot)

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