Jack Your Body — Steve 'Silk' Hurley

CTL-E-0612 · Work · song · 1986–1987

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Steve 'Silk' Hurley's 'Jack Your Body' was released on DJ International Records in 1986 and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1987 — the first house record to top the UK pop charts.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-064; source research type(s): song. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_International_Records

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