Outta Control (group)

{{Short description|Canadian Eurodance band}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox musical artist

|name = Killer Bunnies

|image =

|caption =

|background = group_or_band

|alias = Outta Control

|origin = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

|instrument =

|genre = House, Eurodance

|Occupation(s) =

|years_active = 1995–1998

|label = Universal Records (as Killer Bunnies)

|website =

|current_members =

|past_members = Barry Harris
Rachid Wehbi
Kimberley Wetmore
Simone Denny (Killer Bunnies)

}}

Outta Control, and later Killer Bunnies, was a Canadian house/Eurodance project based out of Toronto, Ontario.

History

DJ/remixer/producers Barry Harris{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Killer+Bunnies%22&pg=PA42|title=Thunderpuss 2000: 'It's alright and it's ok'|last=Paoletta|first=Michael|date=9 October 1999|magazine=Billboard|page=42|accessdate=25 May 2010}} and Rachid Wehbi together with vocalist Kimberley Wetmore originally came together and began recording under the name Outta Control.

From 1995 to 1997, the group had three hit singles on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "Tonight It's Party Time", "One of Us" (Joan Osborne cover),{{cite magazine|title=Reviews & Previews: Singles|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA74|date=15 June 1996|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=74–|issn=0006-2510}} and "Sinful Wishes" (Kon Kan cover).{{cite magazine|editor=Larry Flick|title=Singles|magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT80|date=11 January 1997|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=80–|issn=0006-2510}}

After changing the name of the group to Killer Bunnies, Harris and Wehbi recorded a fourth charting single with vocalist Simone Denny, "I Can't Take the Heartbreak", which samples Class Action's "Weekend".[http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/the-flash-and-thunder-54936?m= "After the flash & thunder"]. Daily Extra, 18 Feb 2004

Discography

=As Outta Control=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peak chart positions

! rowspan="2"| Album

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="35"| CAN
Dance

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.9931&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=j86d3uqb5jajlou8j8ag1r4lv4 Canadian Chart, Dance/Urban] RPM, Volume 64, No. 6, 16 September 1996

! width="35"| U.S.
Dance

1995

| align="left"| "Tonight It's Party Time"

| —

| 42

| align="left" rowspan="3"| Flamenco Funk

1996

| align="left"| "One of Us"

| 9

| 36

1997

| align="left"| "Sinful Wishes"

| —

| 45

colspan="15" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

=As Killer Bunnies=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peak chart positions

! rowspan="2"| Album

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="35"| CAN
Dance

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.3487&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=hsu3mmdgjl1p7rs2bhsr56sd07 Canadian Chart Dance/Urban] - RPM, Volume 66, No. 25, 16 March 1998

! width="35"| U.S.
Dance

1997

| align="left"| "I Can't Take the Heartbreak"{{cite magazine|title=New & Noteworthy|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80|date=18 October 1997|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=80–|issn=0006-2510}}

| 13

| 36

| align="left"| Single only

colspan="15" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

References