"Bon Bon Vie" is a 1980 single by T.S. Monk. The single, from the album, House of Music, was T.S. Monk's most successful song peaking at number eleven on the R&B chart and number sixty three on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

. On the dance charts, along with the track, "Candidate for Love", "Bon Bon Vie" peaked at number thirteen. The single was T.S. Monk's only entry on both the pop and dance charts.

The song's horn intro was sampled by hip hop group Public Enemy for the song "Welcome to the Terrordome" from their album Fear of a Black Planet

Fear of a Black Planet

Fear of a Black Planet is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released April 10, 1990, on Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. Production for the album was handled by the group's production team The Bomb Squad, who expanded on the dense, sample-layered sound of the...

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