Anne Murray – Who’s Leaving Who (US 12″)
Posted by DjPaulT on June 29th, 2010
BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986
Side A Label
Who’s Leaving Who is a song written by Jack White and Mark Spiro, first recorded by Canadian country singer Anne Murray in 1986. It achieved a bigger popularity in Europe when it was covered by British Hi-NRG singer Hazell Dean in 1988.
The song was recorded by Anne Murray for her 1986 album Something To Talk About, and was produced by Jack White. The album saw a departure from Murray’s typical country music, being a straightforward 80′s synth-pop album.
Who’s Leaving Who was released as the album’s second single, after her Canadian and US #1 country single Now and Forever (You and Me). The single failed to reach the same level of success, peaking at #93 in the Canadian singles chart, and failing to chart in the USA Billboard Hot 100. Its biggest success was in the Adult Contemporary charts, peaking at #15 in Canada and #26 in the USA.
This 12″ also marks one of the only 12″ singles that Anne Murray ever released. This version has not appeard on CD as far as I know.
RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: Capitol Records
Catalog#: V-15242
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
SIDE A
(A) Who’s Leaving Who (12″ Club Mix) 5:06
Co-producer [Associate] – Mark Spiro
Producer – Jack White
Remix – John Van Nest
Written-By – J. White* , M. Spiro*
SIDE B
(B) Reach For Me 3:52
Producer, Arranged By – Keith Diamond
Written-By – E. Schwartz* , R. Bruno*
Side B Label
CLEANING AND GRADING INFO
US 12″ Housed In A Company Sleeve.
Vinyl Grade: Near Mint.
Vinyl cleaned using a VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine and Gruv Glide.
FLAC INFORMATION
All vinyl rips are recorded in full 24bit 96khz resolution and then resampled to 16/44 and encoded from wave to FLAC Lossless level 8.
FLAC files can be played using Foobar2000 media player and it’s free!
What Is FLAC?
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Media Used:
Vinyl 12″ Single
From My Personal Collection.
Artwork Scanned from Original 12″ Single @ 600 dpi
With Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
Edited and Restored Using Adobe Photoshop CS4
HARDWARE USED
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super 20
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
SOFTWARE USED
Audition 3.0:
Recording (32bit/96kHz float using ASIO drivers)
*Manual removal of remaining clicks
*Editing and splitting of tracks
*DC bias correction
CLICKS REMOVED USING CLICKREPAIR
DeClick Level: 10 DeCrackle: Off
Converted Wav to very high quality Mp3/320 kbps using dBpoweramp 13.1
PW: burningtheground
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June 29th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Thank you very much for this. It was hard to find even back in 1985 when it was a hit. I actually like it better than the Hazel Dean version. The Canadian version had a photo cover, not the generic one from the US. BTW I happened to see Anne in a bookstore last October.
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DjPaulT Reply:
June 29th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
You are very welcome Robert. I like this version better than Hazell Deans also. In my opinion Anne Murray’s version has more feeling to it and the production is better. I also love the latin/italo disco feel that it has. I have always liked Anne and this was a nice departure from the soft rock/country material that she had previously released.
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June 29th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Wow! An Anne Muray 12″! I never realized that she had any! Can’t wait to hear it! Thank you, Paul!
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June 29th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
WOW! Besides Olivia, I’m a huge fan of Anne Murray. This is a true gem; thank you for posting this!
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June 30th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Thanks for this one DjPault. I love this song and I don’t know the 12”… And yeah is much better than Hazel Dean’s version.
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June 30th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Thanks DJPaulT — I’ve (to this point) only been familiar with HD’s PWL production.
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August 14th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Reupload please this great song =)
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