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Pump Up the Volume
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Featured in Episode
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Artist(s)
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Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
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13 (February 20, 1988, three weeks)
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Year Released
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1987
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Album
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NONE
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Writer(s)
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Steve Young, Martyn Young
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RIAA Certification
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Gold
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Sequence song appears
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Opening when Cinder streetwalking
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Miami Vice "Baseballs of Death," 'Pump Up The Volume' by MARRS
"Pump Up the Volume" is a song by M/A/R/R/S, released as a single in August 1987. It appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Baseballs of Death".
Notes[]
- The song is actually a group of song samples (commonplace today in most Hip Hop music) strung together. The record was a hit in the UK, reaching #1, and in the US, where it hit #1 on Billboard's Dance Chart and #13 on the Hot 100. The song brought UK "house music" to popular culture and many "sound-alike" songs followed.
- Due to so many legal issues involving this song, M/A/R/R/S never recorded another single or album again.
- The single reached its Hot 100 peak the same week "Baseballs of Death" aired.
- Some of the songs sampled include such US rap/R&B groups as Eric B. and Rakim, Kool & The Gang, Public Enemy and Run-D.M.C..
Video[]
M A R R S. - Pump Up The Volume
Video of "Pump Up The Volume"