"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"
Single by Artful Dodger featuring Craig David
from the album It's All About the Stragglers
Released29 November 1999 (1999-11-29)
GenreUK garage[1]
Length4:02
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Mark Hill
  • Pete Devereux
Artful Dodger singles chronology
"Movin' Too Fast"
(1999) 		"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"
(1999) 		"Movin' Too Fast"
(2000)
Craig David singles chronology
"What Ya Gonna Do"
(1998) 		"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"
(1999) 		"Fill Me In"
(2000)

"Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)" is a song by English garage duo Artful Dodger, featuring Craig David on vocals. Released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 1999, the song reached number two, giving both Artful Dodger and David their first chart hit. In his dean's list for the annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice named "Re-Rewind" the fifth-best single of the year.[2]

Background

The melody in the verses was lifted from an older Craig David demo called "Last Night", which was re-recorded for his debut studio album, Born to Do It. A slightly different version of the song, simply titled "Rewind", was featured on Born to Do It and was credited solely to Craig David and contained no vocals but David's. "Re-Rewind" is notable for being the first record signed by influential label Relentless Records and as such the first one to establish the imprint as a pioneering force within mainstream music.[3]

In February 2016, David revealed that, after the recording session, the song was nearly lost forever: "We finished the song and dubbed it onto a little TDK D90 cassette to go and play it in the car," he says. "It sounded good but there was a couple of little tweaks we wanted to do – and literally as [producer Mark Hill] turned the computer on, all we saw was this 'error, file number' message. The only way to get rid of it was to press OK. So we pressed OK, and it kept coming up with new error numbers. So we'd press OK, press OK, press OK. But when we looked at the session, all that we saw was the hi-hats. I was like, 'are you actually for real?' So that plastic TDK tape became gold dust. We had the whole song on there, and we had to use the recording as our reference, playing it very carefully so it didn't get chewed up, and trying to remember all the things we did. And that was 'Re-Rewind'."[4]

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[29] Platinum 600,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[30]
Craig David solo version 		Silver 200,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref(s).
United Kingdom 29 November 1999
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
[29][31]
Australia 6 March 2000 CD [32]
United States 16 May 2000
[33][34]

In popular culture

It is from this song that Leigh Francis's Channel 4 comedy series Bo' Selecta! took its name.[35]

Craig performed the song on Love Island All Stars in February 2024.

References

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  3. ^ "Interview With Shabs Jobanputra". HitQuarters. 13 November 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  4. ^ Savage, Mark (4 February 2016). "Born to redo it: Craig David on his 'crazy' career revival". BBC News. BBC Online. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  5. ^ Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (UK CD single liner notes). Artful Dodger. Relentless Records, Public Demand. 1999. RELENT 1CDS.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (UK cassette single sleeve). Artful Dodger. Relentless Records, Public Demand. 1999. RELENT 1MCS.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ^ Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (UK 12-inch single vinyl disc). Artful Dodger. Relentless Records, Public Demand. 1999. RELENT 1T.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  8. ^ Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (European CD single liner notes). Artful Dodger. Relentless Records, Public Demand. 1999. DAN 669059 1.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  9. ^ Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (US cassette single sleeve). Artful Dodger. Republic Records, Universal Records. 2000. 012 156 916-4.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
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  27. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 2000" (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  28. ^ "Best Sellers of 2000: Singles Top 100". Music Week. 20 January 2001. p. 25.
  29. ^ a b "British single certifications – Artful Dodger – Re Rewind". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  30. ^ "British single certifications – Craig David – Rewind". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  31. ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 29 November, 1999: Singles". Music Week. 27 November 1999. p. 23.
  32. ^ "The Artful Dodger". EMI Music Australia. Archived from the original on 7 October 2000. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  33. ^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1350. 12 May 2000. pp. 47, 53. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  34. ^ "Impact Dates". Gavin Report. No. 2303. 5 May 2000. pp. 9, 22.
  35. ^ Moodie, Clemmie (15 July 2015). "Craig David: I gave Bo' Selecta! star Leigh Francis a big hug and everything's cool". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
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