Promise Me (song) favorites. In June 2012, Technoboy and Tuneboy sampled the song on their hardstyle single "Promise Me". Three months later, German techno band Scooter sampled "Promise Me" on their single "4 AM", in a nod to a 1993 breakbeat hardcore track by Orca, which also sampled verses from "Promise Me". French rap artist La Fouine sampled the first verse of the song in his 2013 song "Quand je partirai". The single peaked at #74 in the French charts. Promise Me (song) "Promise Me" is a 1990 hit song by British singer Beverley Craven. A ballad, it has become Craven's signature song
Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick that suggests they can hear it." Despite this, Chaz Jankel often re-tells the story that after recording it he phoned his mother and told her, "I've just recorded my first number one". On radio "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" was a popular song from its release, but in the UK the single was initially kept from the number one position in the charts for two weeks by The Village People's smash hit "Y.M.C.A.", which was number one for three consecutive weeks. On the 27 January 1979, however, Turnbull, Watt-Roy and drummer Charley Charles were waiting outside the Gaumont State