BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1987

REQUEST

“Tomorrow” was the first single released from The Communards second studio album “Red”. The song peak at #23 for two weeks on the UK singles chart and also peaked at #2on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart in 1987.

SIDE A
Tomorrow (Extended Version) 7:25
Cello – Audrey Riley
Engineer – David Jacobs*
Engineer [Assistant] – Avril Mackintosh
Keyboards, Conductor – Richard Coles
Mixed By – Stephen Lipson
Producer – Stephen Hague
Programmed By, Keyboards [Additional] – Rob Fisher
Viola – Jocelyn Pook
Violin – Anne Stephenson , Sally Herbert

SIDE B
I Just Want To Let You Know 3:25
Engineer – Charles Gray
Engineer – Charles Gray
Engineer [Assisted] – Jim* , Matthew*
Keyboards [Additional], Programmed By – Jimmy Somerville
Mixed By – Charles Gray , Jimmy Somerville
Piano, Keyboards – Richard Coles
Producer – Communards, The

Romanze For Violin, Piano And Hedgehog 4:26
Piano – Richard Coles
Producer [Assisted], Mixed By [Assisted] – Matthew Casswell
Producer, Mixed By – Charles Gray , Richard Coles
Violin – Sally Herbert

Scat 3:29
Producer [Assisted], Mixed By [Assisted] – Matthew Casswell
Producer, Mixed By – Charles Gray , Jimmy Somerville
Programmed By – Jimmy Somerville

RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: Metronome
Catalog#: 886 192-1
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Maxi-Single
Country: Germany
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

NOTES
“Tomorrow” from the LP “RED”

DISCOGS

CLEANING AND GRADING INFO
German 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!
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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BURNING THE GROUND HI-NRG EXCLUSIVE 1987

Side One Promo Label

REQUEST

“Never Can Say Goodbye” is a song written by Clifton Davis and originally recorded by The Jackson 5. Released as a single in 1971, it was one of the group’s most successful songs. The song has been covered numerous times, most notably in 1974 by disco diva Gloria Gaynor and in 1987 by Hi-NRG/dance-pop group The Communards.

In 1987, British pop band The Communards had a hit with a Hi-NRG cover of the Clifton Davis classic, which was featured on their second album, Red.

Scottish lead singer Jimmy Somerville, openly gay on record since his previous band Bronski Beat released “Smalltown Boy” in 1984, performed a falsetto version faithful to Gaynor’s disco take, right down to the pronouns “you know you love him more and more” and “never can say goodbye, boy”.

The Communards’ version reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco chart in the U.S. The group had reached #1 on those charts covering another 1970s classic, “Don’t Leave Me This Way”, in 1986.

The energetic music video of this version is classified as a classic by cable video channel VH1.

The Communards version was also featured in Father’s Day, in the first series of the revived Doctor Who, set in 1987.

This 12″ promo features remixes exclusive to this release.

DISCOGS LINK

RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: MCA Records
Catalog#: L33-17469
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic
Style: Hi NRG, Synth-pop
Credits:  Remix – Shep Pettibone
Written-By – Clifton Davis

NOTES
Promotion Only Not For Sale
Jobete Music Co., Inc.
For Mastermix Productions

Original version appears on the MAC LP, MCA-42106 “Red”
Recorded In England

SIDE A
(A) Never Can Say Goodbye 11:14

SIDE B
(B1) Never Can Say Goodbye (Dub Mix) 5:45
(B2) Never Can Say Goodbye (Instrumental) 5:42

Side Two Promo Label

CLEANING AND GRADING INFO
US 12″ Promo 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