Jack Your Body is a popular song by Steve 'Silk' Hurley, which was featured on the only J.M. Silk album, Hold on to Your Dream, released in 1987.

One of the landmark records in the history of House music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

, Jack Your Body was written and produced by Hurley. The song became a major hit on the UK singles chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

, reaching #1 for two weeks in January and February 1987, despite Hurley's refusal to promote it.

This was the UK's first house music #1, and paved the way for the acid house

Acid house

Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago who experimented with...

 sound popular there during the late 1980s. It was also the first UK number one single to achieve the majority of its sales on the 12" format. Under the chart rules in place at the time, the 12" single should not have counted toward "Jack Your Body"'s chart position as its running time execeeded the then-current 25-minute limit. The rule was not enforced since the running time was not brought to the chart compilers' attention until the record was already at number one.

In spite of "Jack Your Body's" success, Hurley has had no further solo singles whatsoever (under his own name) in the UK Top 75.

The song climbed to number twenty-five on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, reaching number thirty-seven for the U.S. Maxi-Singles Sales category.

Official versions

• "Jack Your Body (LP Version)" - 4:20
• "Jack Your Body (Edit)" - 3:13
• "Jack Your Body (Club Your Body)" - 6:50
• "Jack Your Body (Dub Your Body)" - 6:25
• "Jack Your Body (Dub Your Body Edit)" - 3:35
• "Jack Your Body (Home Made Mix)" - 6:35
• "Jack Your Body (Steve "Silk" Hurley Remix)" - 7:03
• "Jack Your Body (Monty House Remix)" - 6:29

Peak positions

Chart (1987)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	25
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes...	37

Chart successions

Notes

See also

• List of UK number one singles
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

External links

• [ Steve "Silk" Hurley] on AllMusic
• [ J.M. Silk] on AllMusic

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