Glass Tiger – Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) (Canadian 12″)
Posted by DjPaulT on 6th April 2010
BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE
1986
1986 Front Cover
“Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” is a 1986 song by Canadian pop-rock band Glass Tiger, from their debut album, The Thin Red Line. Released as the band’s first single, it reached number one in Canada and number two in the United States. The song features backing vocals by rock singer Bryan Adams.
In 1985, Glass Tiger chose Jim Vallance to produce the band’s debut album. This marked Vallance’s debut as a producer; he had been known primarily as the songwriting partner of Bryan Adams. The band’s lead vocalist, Alan Frew, recalled: “It worked out great because we were all at the same stage of development. He didn’t change the sound of the band at all. He let us experiment but wasn’t afraid to get heavy-handed when he had to.” Vallance composed “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” with the band, while Adams provided backing vocals.
“Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” topped the Canadian Singles Chart in March 1986, and spent two weeks at number one. The single was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association in July. The song entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in July, peaked at number two in October, and spent 24 weeks on the chart. It reached number one on the Singles Sales chart and number six on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. The song also peaked at number 17 on the Mainstream Rock chart, number 30 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and number 34 on the Billboard Year-End singles chart of 1986. The single reached the top 15 in Australia, number 27 in New Zealand, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and number 40 in the Netherlands.
Frew credited the song’s chart performance to “solid record company involvement” and the band’s international appeal. “We aren’t rewriting musical history by any means,” he added. “But our melody lines are strong and mature enough to appeal to the English-speaking world.” The song won the 1986 Juno Award for Single of the Year, and was named top Canadian single in the Rock Express magazine readers’ poll awards in 1987. In 1996, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada honored the song for airing more than 100,000 times on Canadian radio. Glass Tiger performed the song during an episode of the 2005 NBC reality television program Hit Me, Baby, One More Time.
The Canadian 12″ single also features a previously un-released non-album track “Do You Wanna (Dance With Me)”.
RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: Capitol Records
Catalog#: S-75142
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Canada
Released: 1986
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
Credits: Producer – Jim Vallance
SIDE A
A Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) (Extended Version) 7:10
Featuring – Bryan Adams
Remix – Randy Staub
Written-By – Glass Tiger , Jim Vallance
SIDE B
B1 Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) (Single Mix) 4:05
Featuring – Bryan Adams
Written-By – Glass Tiger , Jim Vallance
B2 Do You Wanna Dance (With Me) (Previously Unreleased) 3:58
Written-By – Glass Tiger
Back Cover
CLEANING AND GRADING INFO
Canadian 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
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