Rejecting the up-tempo dance of ska, the band slowed their music to a rocksteady pace, and infused their lyrics with political and social messages inspired by their new found faith.

Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early 1970s, with its center in the United States in New York.

Chief among these are two up-tempo dance music styles that have become popular across Madagascar and have achieved crossover success: salegy, a 6 / 8 style that originated in the northwest around Mahajanga and Antsiranana, and tsapika, a 4 / 4 style centered in the southwest between Toliara and Betroka.

It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 40s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 led to its decline.

Then along came the next long-player " This Could Be Heaven ", a collection of fourteen dance and up-tempo tracks, which went platinum in Japan within six weeks.

Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk, salsa, and soul music, popular originally with gay and black audiences in large U. S. cities, and derives its name from the French word discothèque.

During the song, male and female dancers joined her on stage, and performed up-tempo dance routines.

In 2001, Playgroup released the single, " Number One ", an up-tempo disco dance song.

An up-tempo electronic pop song with techno, trance, European dance and disco influences, " Ray of Light " contains elements of rock music, which have drawn comparison to the work of Oasis, as well as several sound effects such as whistles, bleeps and bells, the usage of electric guitar, and underlying synths.

Hence Madonna, who was the most popular dance artist of that era, decided to create a similar remix compilation album, later titled You Can Dance, which included seven of her up-tempo songs.

The song is an up-tempo, piano-led dance song with a distinct and easily recognisable opening piano riff, it is written in 4 / 4 and in the key of D-flat major

Offered the song by Dylan, Sheryl Crow later recorded an up-tempo cover of " Mississippi " for her The Globe Sessions, released in 1998, before Dylan revisited it for Love and Theft.

" Crying " followed in July 1961 and reached number 2 ; it was coupled with an R & B up-tempo song titled " Candy Man " written by Fred Neil and Beverley Ross, which reached the Billboard Top 30, staying on the charts for two months.

" At the time of the album's release — which followed, chronologically, the up-tempo single version of the song, " Revolution " — that single word " in " was taken by many on the radical left as Lennon's acknowledgment, after considered thought, that violence in the pursuit of political aims was indeed justified in some cases.

The full song is an up-tempo instrumental rendition of Jester Hairston's " Amen ," which he wrote for the Sidney Poitier film Lilies of the Field ( 1963 ) and which was subsequently popularized by The Impressions in 1964.

In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement.

Commercial pop songs that matched the up-tempo beat of the stompers were also played at some venues, including The Ron Grainer Orchestra ’ s instrumental " Theme From Joe 90 " at Wigan Casino and The Just Brothers ’ surf-guitar song " Sliced Tomatoes " at Blackpool Mecca.

Yumi achieved moderate success with her fifth single, Rouge no Dengon (" Rouge Message "), an up-tempo song considered to be an early J-Pop classic.

Vito & the Salutations scored a success in 1963 with an up-tempo version of the song " Unchained Melody ," which reached number 60 on the Cash Box hit parade and made the top ten in many cities.

An up-tempo, salsa-influenced song with double entendres about the singer's infatuation with a woman, Martin's recording earned him continued crossover success around the world.

The song, performed entirely in English, was an up-tempo ode to positive thought.

That opening song is more up-tempo than the Sun studio recording.

In 1990, they released their most successful hit single in the UK, " I'm Free ", an up-tempo cover of a Rolling Stones song with an added toasting overdub by reggae star Junior Reid, which reached number five.

An up-tempo song co-written by Jeffrey Steele and former NRBQ guitarist Al Anderson, " Unbelievable " peaked at No. 2 on the country charts and crossed over to Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Diamond Rio its first appearance on that chart.

The album also contains the original version of the hit song " MMMBop ", which was a rock ballad, unlike the up-tempo pop version that became a hit.

As with most songs performed by the band live, the song is up-tempo and includes many jokes.

The song is an up-tempo number about " the bank of fun ", which the band sings is where one's happiness is to be found.

During the Return of the Spice Girls tour, the group dressed in tuxedos and performed an up-tempo jazzy version of the song, while doing a striptease behind neon pink-colored, heart-shaped doors.

In anticipation of their second studio LP, October 1996 saw the release of ' Fighting Fit ', an up-tempo rock song which reached number 22.

Motown released " Just My Imagination " as a single on their Gordy label on January 14, 1971, with the up-tempo psychedelic soul song " You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth ", from the 1970 Psychedelic Shack LP, as the b-side.

::" I knew if I ever recorded any kind of tribute to Chris, it would have to be up-tempo, happy ... a song like him ... not some slow, mournful song.

During an uneventful recording session at Sun Studios on the evening of July 5, 1954, Presley, Moore, and Black were taking a break between recordings when Presley started fooling around with an up-tempo version of Arthur Crudup's song " That's All Right, Mama ".

Another, more up-tempo, version of the song, " Four Nights Drunk " relates the same overall story, albeit abbreviated.

After Carey began writing songs for her new album Daydream, she decided to include the hook from the Tom Tom Club song " Genius of Love " into an up-tempo song.

Eberly sang the first minute, usually as a slow romantic ballad, the next minute featured the full band backing Jimmy's saxophone, and the last minute was sung by O ' Connell in a more up-tempo style, sometimes with lyrics in Spanish.

Ghettotech follows the same sexually oriented lyrics, hip-hop bass lines and streetwise attitude, but with harder, up-tempo Roland TR-909 techno-style kick beats.

Music critic Bill Lamb rates this among his " top 10 driving songs " due to its lyrics about driving all night and its pulse-quickening, up-tempo beat.

The lead single " L ' Âme-stram-gram " was a futuristic up-tempo techno-ballad with erotic lyrics accompanied by a Chinese-themed video in which Farmer commits suicide to save her twin.

The original version was used for the first two seasons and was replaced with an up-tempo rearrangement with new lyrics for season three onward.

Their lyrics typically revolve around sadness, loneliness, jealousy and desire: these tragic contents usually contrast with the music, which normally is up-tempo, disco-oriented, although they have recorded downtempo songs as well.

In addition to being more up-tempo, the VU version contains a significant change in the lyrics.

" Beautiful Stranger " is an up-tempo love song featuring heavily reverbed guitars and bouncy drum loops, with lyrics telling a tale of infatuation.