Katie Kissoon – I Need a Man In My Life (US 12″)
Posted by DjPaulT on 3rd August 2010
BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984
Side One Label
This 12″ is a guilty pleasure for me, I have always loved it. I do not know much about it’s chart performance but I can tell you that everytime I played this record it was an instant hands in the air floor filler. Katie Kissoon was born on March 11, 1951 in Trinida but raised in England. Katie was part of a duo group with her brother Mac Kissoon in the 70′s.
Katie Kissoon’s career has continued as backup singer for such notables as Van Morrison (1978 and later), Elkie Brooks (1982), Eric Clapton (1986 and later), Roger Waters (since 1984), Elton John (1985), Eros Ramazzotti (1990), George Harrison (1991), Pet Shop Boys, (1994) and Robbie Williams (2002 and later).
DISCOGS LINK
RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: Jive
Catalog#: JD 1 9247
Format: Vinyl, 12″
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Hi-NRG
Credits: Engineer, Remix – Bryan “Chuck” New
Producer – Ken Gold , Pete Q. Harris
Written-By – Micky Denne*
SIDE A
(A1) I Need A Man In My Life (Extended Club Mix) 6:43
(A2) I Need A Man In My Life (Acappella Mix) 3:12
SIDE B
(B1) I Need A Man In My Life (Dub Mix) 3:47
(B2) I Need A Man In My Life (7″ Edit) 3:49
Side Two 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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