West Street Mob

Emerging from New York, USA, toward the end of the 1970s, West Street Mob ranked among Sugarhill Records’ lesser-recognized outfits, even though Joey Jnr., the son of label founders Joe and Sylvia Robinson, had briefly joined their ranks. The ensemble’s most notable output surfaced in 1983 with the electro classic ‘Break Dancin’ - Electric Boogie’, itself a reworking of the Incredible Bongo Band’s version of the Shadows’ ‘Apache’. Long employed by scratch mix DJs across the hip-hop community, that ‘break’ benefited from widespread familiarity, which helped drive its regional appeal. West Street Mob’s only Billboard Top 100 entries arrived with ‘Let’s Dance (Make Your Body Move)’ in September 1981 and ‘Sing A Simple Song’ the following April.