Culture Club – White Boy (UK 12″)
Posted by DjPaulT on June 14th, 2010
BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1982
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In 1981, Boy George occasionally sang with the group Bow Wow Wow under the stage name “Lieutenant Lush”. However, his popularity in this role caused friction with the group’s actual lead singer, Annabella Lwin. After his tenure with the group, George decided to start his own band and enlisted Mikey Craig. Next came Jon Moss, and finally Roy Hay. The band was named Culture Club. The group recorded demos, which were paid for by EMI Records, but the label was unimpressed and decided not to sign the group. Virgin Records heard the demos and signed the group in the UK, and Epic Records released their albums in the US as Virgin did not have a U.S. presence at the time.
Their first album, Kissing to Be Clever (UK #5, US #14) (1982), saw the release of their first single “White Boy”. Although the song failed to reach the US or UK Top 100, George was still happy because “5000 people bought my song and didn’t even know me.”
This version of “White Boy” has not been released on CD as far as I know and is a different version than what appeared on the oiginal LP. Oddly the LP version is titled “Dance Mix”.
RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: Virgin
Catalog#: VS 496-12
Format: Vinyl, 12″
Country: UK
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Artwork By [Cover Design] – Jik Graham
Bass – Michael Craig
Drums, Percussion – Jon Moss
Engineer – Dave Bascombe*
Guitar, Keyboards, Piano – Roy Hay
Photography – Mark Lebon
Producer, Engineer – Steve Levine
Vocals, Backing Vocals – Boy George
Written-By – Culture Club
SIDE A
(A) White Boy (12″ Version) 6:44
SIDE B
(B) Love Twist 4:19
Featuring – Captain Crucial
Back Cover
CLEANING AND GRADING INFO
UK 12″ Housed In A Picture 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!
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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
June 14th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
djpaul, i love when you post any CC. Thanks for this!
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June 14th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Some trivia about the “White Boy” single release: The original 7-inch version (which runs about 3:33) is quite different in its arrangement from the 12-inch and subsequent album version (different breaks and middle section). The album version is an edit of this 12-inch “Dance Mix”. The original single version is on CD on a rare limited edition Japan-CD titled “Greatest”. This 12-inch version was also on a rare Japan picture-label EP titled “Time” which has never been released on CD. This 12-inch version has also never been on CD.
Also, the original 7-inch version of “White Boy” features as its b-side an alternate mix of “Love Twist” from what is on the album and 12-inch. Not a different version, just a different mix. Also, on the original Kissing To Be Clever LP “Love Twist” is segued into by “Take Control” but on the USA edition that edit is removed and the song starts cold. “Love Twist” also has a live version as the b-side for “It’s A Miracle” which was used as the b-side for the 7-inch (and 12-inch) release but was skipped over for “Melting Pot” on the CD reissue for Colour By Numbers.
The single release for “I’m Afraid of Me” has similar details to the “White Boy” track — original single version quite different from the remix that’s on Kissing To Be Clever and only available on CD in that rare Japan CD “Greatest” et cetera …
Thanks so much for doing this 12-inch, DjPaulT!!! It’s truly striking gold for a Culture Club fan!!! =)
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June 14th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Thanks for ripping this rarity, Paul! And thanks, Marty, for the trivia.
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June 14th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Truly is gold as Christian said. Thank you Paul.
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Andy Reply:
June 14th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Oops…as MARTY said! Sorry.
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June 14th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
In the beginning, there was Culture Club. Unique, quirky, original. Thus the 80′s were forever changed. Boy George. Nuff said. Vocal butter.
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June 14th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
I would love to thank you so much for that rip !
I’m a huge Culture Club / Boy George fan and I’m into collection for this artist (I may have more than 1200 records of him)
But the quality of your rip is just perfect that i’m really happy you’ve done it !
Thanks again and again
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June 15th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Thanks for this! Would also love to hear “I’m Afraid Of Me” 12″ if you have it. Cheers!
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June 15th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for that background info Marty! Would love to know more Culture Club unique mixes/edits etc…
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June 15th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Hehe I am actually the only reply to your incredible article?!?
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October 2nd, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Awesome, thanks.
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