"Menergy"
Single by Patrick Cowley
from the album Menergy - The Fusion Album
ReleasedAugust 1981
StudioAutomatt
Venue11th & Harrison
GenreHi-NRG, disco
Length8:40
LabelFusion
Songwriter(s)Patrick Cowley

"Menergy" is a 1981 dance single by producer Patrick Cowley.

“One day, while we were recording that album,” Marty Blecman, a former disc jockey and Cowley's business partner, wrote before his death in 1991, “We got high and I added an ‘M’ in front of title track called ‘Energy,’ and we came up with all these completely gay lyrics for it. In the end, that's what we used.”

Along with the song "I Want to Take You Home", "Menergy" spent two weeks atop the Billboard Dance/Disco chart in October and November 1981.[1] It was Cowley's most successful single of four Top 10 dance chart hits, all of which occurred within the span of 15 months. As with Cowley's other singles, "Menergy" did not place on any other chart in the USA. In 1984, a posthumous version of "Menergy" was released where Sylvester's vocals were featured.

It was used in 2009 in the trailer for the video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, as well as the in-game radio station K109 The Studio. Most recently, it was featured in the Netflix series "Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story"

Charts

Chart (1981-1982) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] 18
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[3] 31
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[4] 5
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[5] 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 65.
  2. ^ "Patrick Cowley – Menergy" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Patrick Cowley – Menergy" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Patrick Cowley – Menergy". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Billboard > Patrick Cowley Chart History > Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Retrieved December 9, 2019.


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