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Captain Hollywood

Captain Hollywood   (USA)

AKA : Tony Dawson-Harrison
EuroDance member
Added : 24/01/2000
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Do That Thang
The Afterparty
20 years Greatest Hits Album
Shirley
Debora
Jaybee / Tribute
Soulsister
Do That Thang
Rock Me
Soulsister remix 93
Do That Thing (Remix '93)
Over And Over
Love And Pain
The Afterparty
Danger Sign
Axel F 2003
Flying High 2003
More And More 2008
It Hurts With You
Grand Piano
You Are A Superstar
I Can't Stand It
Street Moves
Are You Dreaming
More And More
Pumping Up
Only With You
All I Want
Impossible
Rhythm Of Life
Won't You Come With Me
Flying High
Eat Me
Find Another Way
The Way Love Is
More And More
Heat (Turn Me On)
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Latest Captain Hollywood news

30/08/2021 : Captain Hollywood's autobiography More Than The '90s is finally available in online shops

30/04/2021 : Captain Hollywood wrote his autobiography, More Than The 90s, and you can already preorder it

24/05/2019 : Captain Hollywood just won a Lifetime Frankie award

26/09/2014 : Today sees the release of Captain Hollywood's collaboration with Marc Lime & K Bastian Heat (Turn Me On). Single comes along with plenty of remixes, including one by Sash! (Thanks to Krasi)

21/04/2014 : Discover a rare video from 1987 of a duet of Captain Hollywood and TT Fresh entitled Ladies of the 80s, featuring Tanja (3-O matic), Nancy (DJ Bobo) and Myriam.

21/12/2013 : Captain Hollywood was featured on Marc Lime & K Bastian's Turn Me On (Thanks to Krasi)

03/06/2013 : Scotty made a new version of Captain Hollywood's hit More And More, featuring Tony's raps. Single includes mixes by Movetown, Killmode vs Fun(k)house, Tom Belmond and Housemaxx and CJ Stone (thanks to guillaume)

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Captain Hollywood albums

Do That Thang Do That Thang 1985
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The Afterparty The Afterparty 18th Nov 1996
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20 years Greatest Hits Album 20 years Greatest Hits Album 12th May 2010
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Captain Hollywood singles

Shirley Shirley 1984  
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Debora Debora (with TT Fresh) 1984  
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Jaybee / Tribute Jaybee / Tribute (with BPM) 1986  
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Soulsister Soulsister 1989  
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Do That Thang Do That Thang 1990  
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Rock Me Rock Me Oct 1991  
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Soulsister remix 93 Soulsister remix 93 1993  
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Do That Thing (Remix '93) Do That Thing (Remix '93) 1993  
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Over And Over Over And Over Feb 1996  
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Love And Pain Love And Pain 5th Mar 1996  
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The Afterparty The Afterparty 7th Oct 1996  
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Danger Sign Danger Sign 14th May 2001  
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Axel F 2003 Axel F 2003 (vs Murphy Brown) 2003  
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Flying High 2003 Flying High 2003 5th Aug 2003  
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More And More 2008 More And More 2008 2008  
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It Hurts With You It Hurts With You 9th Jan 2009  
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Featurings and collaborations

Grand Piano Mixmaster - Grand Piano  
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You Are A Superstar Boom Boxx - You Are A Superstar  
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I Can't Stand It Twenty 4 Seven - I Can't Stand It Sep 1989  
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Street Moves Twenty 4 Seven - Street Moves (album) 1990  
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Are You Dreaming Twenty 4 Seven - Are You Dreaming 24th Nov 1990  
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More And More Captain Hollywood Project - More And More 29th Jul 1992  
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Pumping Up Thunder - Pumping Up 1993  
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Only With You Captain Hollywood Project - Only With You 8th Jan 1993  
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All I Want Captain Hollywood Project - All I Want 18th May 1993  
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Impossible Captain Hollywood Project - Impossible Sep 1993  
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Rhythm Of Life Captain Hollywood Project - Rhythm Of Life 1994  
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Won't You Come With Me KC Element - Won't You Come With Me 1994  
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Flying High Captain Hollywood Project - Flying High 1st Nov 1994  
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Eat Me Jenny J (2) - Eat Me 1995  
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Find Another Way Captain Hollywood Project - Find Another Way Mar 1995  
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The Way Love Is Captain Hollywood Project - The Way Love Is Apr 1995  
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More And More Scotty - More And More 31st May 2013  
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Heat (Turn Me On) Marc Lime and K Bastian - Heat (Turn Me On) 26th Sep 2014  
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Productions, co-production, executive production

Time Flies Young Internationals - Time Flies 1994  
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Compositions

Time Flies Young Internationals - Time Flies 1994  
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Songwriting

More And More Captain Hollywood Project - More And More 29th Jul 1992  
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Only With You Captain Hollywood Project - Only With You 8th Jan 1993  
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All I Want Captain Hollywood Project - All I Want 18th May 1993  
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Impossible Captain Hollywood Project - Impossible Sep 1993  
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Time Flies Young Internationals - Time Flies 1994  
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Rhythm Of Life Captain Hollywood Project - Rhythm Of Life 1994  
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Won't You Come With Me KC Element - Won't You Come With Me 1994  
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Flying High Captain Hollywood Project - Flying High 1st Nov 1994  
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Find Another Way Captain Hollywood Project - Find Another Way Mar 1995  
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The Way Love Is Captain Hollywood Project - The Way Love Is Apr 1995  
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Captain Hollywood biography

Tony Dawson-Harrison was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1962. He spent the first year of his life in New York. Then his mother Minnie died and his father Edmond left him with his brothers (Mook, Norsia, Lashelton, Skipp) and sisters (Cathy and Evelyn) 2 years later. They were scattered in their relatives' families. Then Tony began a life as a streetchild, made a few money as breakdancer, and finally joined the army at the age of 17. He came to Germany as a soldier with the US Army in the 80s, near Frankfurt then in Nurnberg, and began to work as a choreographer. His nickname Captain Hollywood was given to him by his military friends in 1982, because he danced even when in uniform.

During the week-ends he used to go to discos, that's how he was spotted by Andreas Thiesmeyer, producer of the TV-show Formel Eins, who immediately wanted to work with him. He did choreographs for La Toya Jackson and CC Catch and even went with them on tournee. He appeared in German cult movies (such as Macho Man) with famous boxers, and represented Germany in Cannes in 1984 for the breakdance movie premiere of Beat Street. He also contributed to increase breakdance's popularity in Germany.

Meanwhile he was a member in the competition juries for breakdance. That's how some of his colleagues suggested to Tony that he could sing. 3 singles, which entered the Clubcharts, came out. Among them was Grand Piano, on which he appears under the alias of The Mix Master. It was a hit, reaching #4 in Great Britain, # 2 in France and # 10 in Germany.

In 1988 he joined Dutch project Twenty 4 Seven with female singer Nance, replacing rapper MC Fixxit. The first hit I Can't Stand It reached #7 in the UK chart and #1 in several European countries. He also took part to their first album. During 3 monthes they toured with MTV Europe, sponsored by the watch company Swatch. That's how he began his cooperation with the two german dancers. Hanks (Giovanni Falco) & Jacks (Wolfgang Reiss), who followed him when he left the project in 1991.

In 1988 he released a vinyl single in collaboration with BPM (no relationship with the German project) : Jaybee / Tribute. It was produced by La Fong at Preussen-Studio, Berlin-West. Label : P1 Records.

In June 1992, Captain Hollywood created a dance school in Nuremberg, the Hollywood Dance Academy.

He signed at the 'Get into magic' label and started a new project with Nosie Katzmann and Giora Schein : Captain Hollywood Project. His voice at the very beginning of Twenty 4 Seven - Are You Dreaming ("kick it one time") was also sampled and used on Italian single Pumping Up by Italian project Thunder.

In 1995, he contributed to an eurodance project name The Vision. This project only released 2 singles. He was also featured by Jenny J for the single Eat Me and once again the same sample used in 1993 appeared as intro for B.A.R. feat. Roxy's Feeling.

In 1995, tired from the frequent racist insults and harassments he and his manager Susanne Foecker experienced, he left Nuremberg and settled in in Dusseldorf where he bought a 200 sq meters penthouse.

During the years 1999 and 2000 Captain Hollywood spent his time between his own studio in the Rhine country and the USA, where he worked with the HipHop legend Pete Rock and with Ol' Dirty Bastard. He made some mixes for the Dance HipHop duo R'n'G (Alex Christensen & Toni Cattania), the Dance project Black Bone (Another Day in Paradise) and even DJ Bobo. And he produced the youngest Shooting star of the ex-N'Sync-manager Lou Pearlman, the Boy Quintett O-Town. Especially for this a 48-people television team of the ABC channel, not forgetting an MTV US team, traveled to Germany in order to shoot a report which became a series with 12 million spectators weekly. Tony's last production was a single for Tiffany featuring Krayzee Bone.

He also provided the deep spoken-voice passages on the Ofra Haza song One Day from her album Ofra Haza. An interesting coincidence is that in this spoken passage Tony very clearly stresses the words "more and more", which was the title of one of his best-selling song.

2001 : Captain Hollywood is back ! He released his first new single Danger Sign under his own name since 1995, on May 14th. After a live show in Köln on the 20th of May, he took part to the broadcast "Disneyclub" on RTL on the 26th, and on the 3rd of June, he was present at "The Dome" on RTL II.

2003 : Captain Hollywood is back with a remake of Axel F. theme. He released it under the name of Murphy Brown vs. Captain Hollywood. The single is entitled Axel F. 2003 (under the label BigRoom). He reached #17 in the German DJ Playlist Charts (which has 200 places in total). Pushed by this success, he teamed up with Boom Boxx (Alex, Jesse and Max) and released Flying High 2003, an excellent remixed version of his old hit. Then in October, they covered the Outhere Brothers' track Boom Boom Boom, which was used as anthem for the German event Berliner YOU 2003.

2006 : Tony Harrison does not make records anymore : "I had a great time and a great career so im very satisfied with that" he explains. He is now vice-president of an American record company by the name of Skreem Records U.S.A in Orlando Florida, and they are currently working on projects such as 3rd Wish (a latino band), Patmoe (from the dirty South of Atlanta), and SKREEM.TV (the number 2 online streaming video channel in the U.S, playing 24 hours 7 days a week all of the best U.S videos from hiphop rock country pop RnB). He settled in St Pete Beach, a beautiful beach in sunny Florida, but he still comes from time to time to Nuremberg. He married his girlfriend Shirin von Gehlen.

2008 : Captain Hollywood released More And More Recall 2008. In September, Captain Hollywood teamed up with DJ Base from Dubai and in October, they just finished the new video to the 2009 More And More recall. The video was shot in his home town Nürnberg Germany. Captain Hollywood and DJ Base will be performing live on national Television in Dubai late october 2008.

Captain Hollywood has finally decided to go back into the studio and record an original track entitled Love Dot Sex.

2009 : Paraisko's did a remix for Captain Hollywood's hit : this is Only With You 2009.

2013 : Scotty made a new version of Captain Hollywood's hit More And More, featuring Tony's raps.

2014 : Captain Hollywood released a collaboration with Marc Lime & K Bastian entitled Heat (Turn Me On).

2019 : Captain Hollywood won a Lifetime Frankie award

Projects and artists produced by Tony Dawson-Harrison :

2000 productions :
Captain Hollywood - Danger Sign, Axel F
O town (U.S charts top)
Bone Thugs & Harmany,
Old dirty bastard
Nick Carter
3rd Wish
U.S dirty south rapper : Pat Moe, Willy Will

90s productions
Alpha Beta - Love And Extacy
Captain hollywood Project : Love Is Not Sex (singles : More & more, Only With You, All I Want, Impossible - US charts top 10), Animals Or Human (Flying High, Find Another Way, That's The Way Love Is - charts top 20)
Cuppicino - (top 20 in germany)
DJ Bobo - The very first and Original megamix
Intermission - Peace of my heart (charts top 10)
Jenny J - Eat Me Eat Me (Club charts top 20)
Magic System
Movie sound track : for the documentary Mahamid Ali (featuring Wyclef), Godzilla.
Young Internationals - Take Me Away (charts top 100)

80s productions
Mix master - Grand Piano (1986 - charts top 5)
Captain Hollywood & TT Fresh - Debora (charts top 40)
Captain Hollywood - TV show Formel Eins theme song (1983), album Do That Thang (insiders and DJs only), Soul sister (charts top 40), Tribute to James Brown (insider and DJs only), Rock Me - charts top 40
Twenty 4 Seven feat Captain Hollywood - I Can't Stand It (charts top 5), Are You Dreaming (charts top 5), album Street Moves (charts top 20)

He has received 1 Diamond Award, 12 Platinum records and 14 Gold records.

Thanks to Rogier Verkroost, Anton "MC Kasper" Skaletsky, Christian DTM NoLimits, DJ Aaron 'Euromaster', Andrew-FK
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions
Captain Hollywood Offical website
Thanks to Captain Hollywood himself

Captain Hollywood biography was last updated Mon, May 24th 2021

Charts (singles)

Austria Belgium Finland Germany
Over And Over #35 #13 #45
Love And Pain #9 #50
The Afterparty #66
Danger Sign #61
Axel F 2003 #18
Flying High 2003 #44


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