page_title: Ride on Time
section_title: Release
hierarchical_section_title: Ride on Time / Release
caption_attribution_description: English: Heather Small performing in Southport
context_page_description: "Ride on Time" is a song by the Italian music group Black Box, released as a single in 1989 and included on their debut album Dreamland. The first version used a vocal sample from the 1980 single "Love Sensation" by Loleatta Holloway, which had not been cleared; after the copyright owners took legal action, the single was reissued with rerecorded vocals by Heather Small.
  The single was a chart success in many countries, topping the charts in Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. It topped the UK Singles Chart for six weeks and was the bestselling single of 1989.
context_section_description: Black Box showed "Ride on Time" to numerous Italian record labels, but none were interested, feeling it did not match their markets. Finally, Davoli took it to Discomagic Records, who he said "would release almost anything".
  Shortly after the track was finished, British DJs Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling visited Italy looking for Italo house music. They heard an early pressing of "Ride on Time" in a record shop, purchased all the available copies, and brought them to England. Around the same time, the UK record label Deconstruction contacted Discomagic, interested in licensing Black Box's earlier track "Numero Uno", but it had been licensed to Beggars Banquet. Instead, Deconstruction licensed "Ride on Time" and released it with no promotion, competing with the imported copies arriving in UK record stores.
caption: Heather Small, who later found fame as the vocalist of M People, provided a rerecorded vocal.
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