"Don't Let the Feeling Go"
Single by Nightcrawlers featuring John Reid
from the album Lets Push It
Released28 August 1995 (1995-08-28)[1]
Genre
Length3:53
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • John Reid
  • Marc Kinchen
  • Graham Wilson
Producer(s)
  • John Reid
  • Marc Kinchen
Nightcrawlers singles chronology
"Surrender Your Love"
(1995)		 "Don't Let the Feeling Go"
(1995)		 "Let's Push It"
(1996)
Music video
"Don't Let the Feeling Go" on YouTube

"Don't Let the Feeling Go" is a song by British house music group Nightcrawlers and released in August 1995 by Arista, BMG and Final Vinyl as the third single from the group's only album, Lets Push It (1995). The song is produced by American DJ and record producer MK, and written by John Reid with Kinchen and Graham Wilson. In the UK, it peaked at number 13 during its first week on the UK Singles Chart, on 9 September 1995. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" became a hit also in other countries, such as Finland, where it peaked at number five, and in Belgium, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland, where the single reached the top 30. Its music video was directed by Guy Ritchie.

Critical reception

In his weekly UK chart commentary in Dotmusic, James Masterton noted, "With their third single the Nightcrawlers move further and further away from the pure dance they started with and into the realm of the proper pop single, pushing singer John Reid to the fore and producing a track which is danceable but is still enough of a song to make it into mainstream radio programming."[2] Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "Do you wanna funk? Then push the feeling a little further and surrender to John Reid's third single in 1994, on which he goes back to Sylvester and Patrick Cowleys' kind of disco adapted to producer Kinchen's sound."

Simon Sadler, head of music at Kiss 100FM/London was the first one to report a new Nightcrawlers single. He said, "On the one hand it's good as it prolongs a winning formula. On the other hand, I see it as their last chance to use the same old recipe again."[3] A reviewer from Music Week gave it three out of five, adding that the singer "keeps to the formula which has provided two hits but, although the club and dub mixes are powerful floorfillers, it's unlikely to win much favour with radio programmers."[4] James Hamilton from the RM Dance Update deemed it "another staccato stutterer, except this time also coherently chorused and whined".[5]

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by English film director Guy Ritchie. It features singer John Reid performing while driving a van. In the back, there is a party going on, with several people, and as Reid continues to sing, some of the people from the party comes out and sits next to him. In the middle of the video, he appears in the party, and when it ends, someone else is driving, while Reid sits in the middle of a crowd of people.[6]

Track listings

  • 12-inch (MK & Tin Tin Out Mixes), UK
  1. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (Tin Tin Out vocal mix)
  2. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (Tooley Street dub)
  3. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK club mix)
  4. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK dub mix)
  • CD single, Europe
  1. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK radio edit) — 3:53
  2. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK club mix) — 7:32
  • CD maxi (MK & Tin Tin Out Mixes), UK
  1. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (Tin Tin Out radio edit) — 3:50
  2. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK radio edit) — 3:49
  3. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (Tin Tin Out vocal mix) — 6:47
  4. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK club mix) — 7:31
  5. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (Tooley Street dub) — 7:04
  6. "Don't Let the Feeling Go" (MK dub mix) — 7:55

Charts

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7] 46
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[8] 24
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[9] 21
Europe (European Dance Radio)[10] 14
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[11] 5
Ireland (IRMA) 26
Netherlands (Dutch Single Tip)[12] 11
Scotland (OCC)[13] 27
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 30
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] 25
UK Singles (OCC)[16] 13
UK Singles (Music & Media)[17] 10
UK Dance (OCC)[18] 6

References

  1. ↑ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 26 August 1995. p. 43.
  2. ↑ Masterton, James (3 September 1995). "Week Ending September 9th 1995". Chart Watch UK. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. 19 August 1995. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Reviews: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 5 August 1995. p. 29. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Hamilton, James (26 August 1995). "Dj directory" (PDF). Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert). p. 15. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "Nightcrawlers Don t Let The Feeling Go". YouTube. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "Nightcrawlers feat. John Reid – Don't Let the Feeling Go" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  8. ↑ "Nightcrawlers feat. John Reid – Don't Let the Feeling Go" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "Eurochart Hot 100" (PDF). Music & Media. 23 September 1995. p. 16. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  10. ↑ "European Dance Radio Top 25" (PDF). Music & Media. 28 October 1995. p. 28. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  11. ↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  12. ↑ "Nightcrawlers feat. John Reid - Don't Let The Feeling Go" (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  13. ↑ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  14. ↑ "Nightcrawlers feat. John Reid – Don't Let the Feeling Go". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  15. ↑ "Nightcrawlers feat. John Reid – Don't Let the Feeling Go". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  16. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  17. ↑ "Top National Sellers" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 12, no. 37. 16 September 1995. p. 18. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  18. ↑ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 03 September 1995 - 09 September 1995". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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