Lady Marmalade taken from the album Sabrina

Release History

Discography

Mixes & Remixes

Lyrics



Some releases...
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Dutch 7"




French 7"


Spanish Promo 7"



Single chronology

Hot girl
1987
Lady Marmalade
& Megamixes

1988

All of me
1988


LADY MARMALADE & MEGAMIXES
History - Charts - Video & audio

 

(about The Sexy Girl Mix for Boys and Hot Girls released in Scandinavia in 1988, see Sexy Girl)

 

In every country where Hot girl had been a top 15 hit, the local records company decided to capitalize on Sabrina's recent success and kept on promoting her debut album by releasing one last single.

In France, Polydor decided to release Lady Marmalade under its French title Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?, a cover version of Patti LaBelle's huge hit-single from 1974-75 and covered many times since then (by All Saints, Christina Aguilera-Lil' Kim-Mya-Pink…) which fitted Sabrina's provocative image. They released the album version and strangely didn't commission an extended version, even for the 12".  The single was released shortly after All of me (which was issued by another record company, Carrere). It entered the charts 1 month after All of me and became a minor hit (#41).

In Spain, where Hot girl had climbed to #2, Blanco y Negro decided to release a Multimegamix (a phenomenon "en vogue" in 1988) even if Sabrina's career was too short and her hits too recent for this kind of production. 2 versions of the megamix were commissioned to Raul Orellana, a famous Spanish dance producer who mixed Boys-Hot girl-Sexy girl and Kiss me, 4 songs from the Cecchetto team. As far as we know, this megamix didn't chart. But as the record is quite easy to find (contrary to later Spanish releases), it probably didn't sell too bad.

In the Netherlands, one year after the release of Hot girl and a few month after the flop of All of me released by Metronome (#90), Dureco decided to release a kind of double-A side single featuring a new remixed version of Lady Marmalade and a unique Megamix of Boys-Hot girl-Sexy girl. Both songs were remixed by Peter Vriends. Lady Marmalade entered the charts in late November and peaked at #40. It's Sabrina's last "hit" in the Netherlands to date.
This "dutch" remix of Lady Marmalade and this Megamix were licensed to Mobile Disco Records in the Philippines. A very limited number of copies were probably released as the 12" is almost impossible to find nowadays.

So, none of those releases became a real hit but according to the fact that the labels didn't promote the singles (no video-clip was shot for instance…) and that Sabrina wasn't involved in the promotion (she never performed Lady Marmalade on French or Dutch TV nor the Multimegamix in Spain), the career of those singles wasn't that bad.

Note : Lady Marmalade is the only cover version from Sabrina's first album which was included in the album Remix 1996. A new megamix was also produced for this release.

Charts

Lady Marmalade aka Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?

COUNTRY

HIGHEST POSITION

CHART ENTRY DATE

CHART HISTORY
(+number of weeks on chart)

France

41

20/08/1988

42, 49, 48, 42, 44, 41, 46, 47
(8 weeks)

Holland

40

26/11/1988

71, 60, 56, 52, 52, 45, 40, 40, 79, 90
(10 weeks)

 

First TV performance of Lady Marmalade in an alternative version
(Sandra e Raimondo Show, Italy, early 1987)


Patti Labelle's original version (TV Performance, 1975)

 

The Spanish Multimegamix (Audio)

 

The Dutch Megamix (Audio)