<Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Willie Perry & The Platinum Band / Frederick Johnson </Td> </Tr> <P> "Cha Cha Slide" is a song by American artist DJ Casper, often played at dance clubs, school PE / dances / proms, parties, ice and roller skating rinks, bar mitzvahs and weddings in the United States and the United Kingdom, where the song reached number one in March 2004 . </P> <P> DJ Casper wrote the lyrics for the original around January 1998 and recorded his performance of the original version of the "Casper Slide Part 1" in January 1998 . The song was heavily inspired by the Chicago stepping movement . Around June 12, 1999, Perry recorded a second version of the song, entitled "Casper Slide Part 2," at the home studio of Fred Johnson with the help of Hollywood Scott, band leader for the Platinum Band . Perry recorded and released the song at his own expense and manufactured copies and distributed them with the help of Gardner Douglas ("Cisco"), owner of the Cisco's Music World record stores in Chicago, Illinois . The song was played at various night clubs and was used by Perry's nephew, a fitness trainer at Bally Total Fitness Health Club in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, as the music for a step aerobics class . </P> <P> DJ Casper enlisted the help of M.O.B. Music Publishing to produce, edit, and engineer the new version of the song "Cha Cha Slide". Men On Business also produced several other accompanying songs to produce the entire Slide Album . DJ Casper and Men On Business licensed the Slide Album to Universal Records and it was released September 19, 2000 . Once it was Universal's project, "we made some instructional' Cha - Cha Slide' dance videos and distributed them to clubs," said Senior VP of Urban Promotion Michael Horton . "We also promoted the song at various black functions, such as homecoming events at black colleges ." The song then made its way to R&B / hip hop station WGCI - FM in DJ Casper's hometown of Chicago . In 2001, the following year, the dance caught on around Canada and the US, where urban contemporary radio stations (and later mobile DJs) played the song continuously, particularly in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Arkansas, Memphis, and Detroit . </P>

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