Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix) – Everything But The Girl | Top 40 Chart Performance, Story and Song Meaning
Chart Performance: Pop (#2); 1996
Story Behind The Song By Ed Osborne
Missing‘s long 28 week climb to #2 seemed like an overnight success compared to Everything But The Girl’s 13 year span prior to entering the U.S. pop chart. In fact, their whole career had a leisurely feel to it.
In the beginning, EBTG was just a side project to other musical endeavors of Hull University students Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Expecting that their collaboration would involve just a single or two, they took their “throwaway” name from a Turner’s, a local furniture store, where ads promised to sell you “everything but the girl” to make your home complete.
From 1982 until 1995, EBTG had already scored a number of U.K. hits when Missing – off 1994’s Amplified Heart – was released. Oddly, Thorn and Watt’s original vision for Missing involved a strong New York house groove not unlike Todd Terry’s remixed dance version of the mellow take featured on the album.
This content and all Song Meaning articles were created and written by Top 40 Contributing Editor Ed Osborne. © 2024 Ed Osborne. All Rights Reserved. In addition to these song meaning articles, Ed has written our “Year in Music 1960s-1990s” articles.
Produced by:
- Ben Watt
- John Coxon
- Todd Terry
Lyrics Written by:
- Tracey Thorn
- Ben Watt
Ed Osborne
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