![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (4th edition). SF While it only spent 3 weeks at #1 in the U.S.A., it spent another 9 weeks at #2, making it Billboard’s biggest song of 1995. WK It was the first rap single to sell more than a million copies in the UK and its 13-week stay atop the Australian charts made it the biggest #1 there until Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” broke the record 22 years later. The song hit #1 in Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Disney executive Joe Roth was sold on the song as well, even deciding to center the movie’s promotional campaign around the song and a video of Coolio and Pfeiffer which featured clips from the movie. Instead they got this gothic, dramatic, much slower-paced song” BR which captured the “despair and abandonment felt by the kids at the school” SF featured in the film. With ‘Fantastic Voyage’ everyone was expecting a fun party record from him. She said, “It didn’t fit any of the trends happening in hip-hop or rap music at the time. Wonder originally rejected it, but approved it after Coolio took out a few vulgarities. Coolio started writing on the spot and finished the song three hours later. for Large Variety) crafting a song out of Stevie Wonder’s “Pasttime Paradise.” Coolio was a big Stevie Wonder fan, but had not heard the album cut from 1976’s Songs in the Key of Life. Coolio was picking up a package at a studio and heard singer Larry Sanders (known as L.V. He crafted a “more compassionate and more realistic” TC version of Compton than rap group NWA, one that “was agreeable rather than abrasive.” TC The song grew out of an unexpected moment. BRĬoolio, who grew up in Compton, had experienced drugs, gangs, and jail and crafted “Gangsta’s Paradise” about the consequences of such a lifestyle and why he got out. ![]() He was sold on the movie’s positive message about school. She liked the sound of rapper Coolio’s voice on the song “Fantastic Voyage” and brought him in to see footage of the movie. However, the movie’s story line was about Michelle Pfeiffer as an ex-marine who becomes a teacher at a high school in the ghetto so Kathy Nelson, who supervised soundtrack music for producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, suggested a more urban approach. The original intent for the music on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack was alternative music. Sales (in millions): 3.0 US, 1.79 UK, 6.39 world (includes US + UK)Īwards: (Click on award for more details). (Coolio), Larry Sanders (LV), Doug Rasheed, Stevie Wonder ( see lyrics here) ![]()
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