Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)

Infobox Single
Name = Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)


Artist = Paul Lekakis
Album =
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 1987
Format = 12"
Recorded = 1987
Genre = Hi-NRG, dance-pop
Length = 3:54 (radio edit) 7:16 (US remix)
Label = ZYX/Polydor
Writer = Paul Lekakis
Producer = Miki Chieregato, Roberto Turatti, Ric Wake
Certification =
Last single = -
This single = "Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)" (1987)
Next single = "You Blow Me Away" (1989)
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"Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)" was the title of the debut single by American Hi-NRG singer Paul Lekakis. Originally released in 1987 on ZYX Records, then picked up by Polydor Records for a wider release, the song peaked at #43 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in the U.S. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3005842&cdi=6280484&cid=04%2F04%2F1987 US Hot 100 Chart data at billboard.com] ] and at #60 on the UK Singles Chart in England. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=14376 UK Singles Chart data at chartstats.com] ] It fared better in other parts of the world, where the song spent five weeks at #1 on the ARIA Charts in Australia, from April 13 through May 11 of 1987. [ [http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/topspot/1987.htm ARIA Chart data at Oz Net Music Charts] ] It also topped music charts in Japan and South Africa, and peaked at #2 in Canada. The song is noteworthy because it is a very well-known 1980's dance club track that nonetheless failed to appear on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart upon its initial release. Subsequent remixes have appeared on that chart, however, as well as some of Lekakis' other dance recordings. The song was popular in the LGBT community and helped to establish his career, both as a singer and as an actor.

In 1990, the song was included on Lekakis' first album, "Tattoo It", which was released on Sire Records. "Boom Boom" has since been re-released and remixed on multiple occasions, most recently in 2007 for the twentieth anniversary of the song. This time, the song had a music video (since there was none when the single was originally released), and it features Lekakis hosting a party with some guests invited into his mansion. In an interview conducted by author and male model Ben Patrick Johnson, from his video blog "Life on the Left Coast", Lekakis stated that the 2007 version is the first in which he participated in the remix process, including re-recording his vocals. There is one slight lyrical difference between the 2007 remix and the original song: instead of "...coming back to my room for "a little" boom boom", the lyrics in the more recent version are "...coming back to my room for "another" boom boom".

References

ee also

*List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s

External links

* [http://www.discogs.com/release/408051 Single release data at discogs.com]