Tag: Keith Forsey

May 18, 2023

Patti LaBelle – Stir It Up (US 12″)

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Originally posted July 16, 2015

“Stir It Up” is a song by American singer Patti LaBelle. It was written by Dan Sembello and Allee Willis and recorded by LaBelle for the motion picture soundtrack album for the 1984 action comedy film Beverly Hills Cop; production was helmed by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey.

“Stir It Up” was the second of two songs she recorded for MCA Records immediately after signing her new contract with them (following “New Attitude”). Her first full-length album for MCA, Winner in You, would follow the next year.

Released as the second single from the soundtrack, which was awarded the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, it reached number five on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. “Stir It Up” was also used as the theme song to the short-lived sitcom Stir Crazy, based on the 1980 movie.

SIDE A:
Stir It Up (Extended Version) 7:09

SIDE B:
Stir It Up (Radio Edit) 5:29
Stir It Up (Percussapella) 5:23

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	Stir It Up	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#41
1985	Stir It Up	U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	#18
1985	Stir It Up	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	#5

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: MCA Records – MCA-23567
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:

Producer – Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey
Remix – Louil Silas, Jr.*
Remix [Engineer] – Taavi Mote
Written-By – A. Willis*, D. Sembello*

NOTES:
Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack Beverly Hills Cop.

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Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro Spin Acrylic Mat
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
Tubes: Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 ECC83/B759 Gold Pins Vacuum Tube – Matched Pair
DAC: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

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July 21, 2021

Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) (Europe 12″)

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Originally posted May 18, 2015

In the original post for this song in 2015, I used the U.S. 12″ which is pressed at 45 RPM however I always liked the European artwork a bit better, plus this is a cleaner sounding record to my ears. With all of the equipment upgrades that have been made since 2015, I think this is a superior transfer. I hope you like it.

“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is a song performed by Scottish rock band Simple Minds. It was written and composed by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff, a guitarist and songwriter from the Nina Hagen Band. The song plays during the opening (Schiff and Forsey’s demo) and closing (Simple Minds’ recording) credits of the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club.

Forsey asked Cy Curnin from The Fixx, Bryan Ferry, and Billy Idol to record the song, but all three declined; Idol later performed a cover of it on his 2001 compilation album Greatest Hits. Schiff then suggested Forsey ask Simple Minds who, after refusing as well, agreed under the encouragement of their label, A&M. According to one account, the band “rearranged and recorded ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ in three hours in a north London studio and promptly forgot about it.”

Continuing the rock direction recently taken on Sparkle in the Rain but also glancing back at their melodic synthpop past, it caught the band at their commercial peak and, propelled by the success of The Breakfast Club, became a number-one hit in the U.S. and around the world. It is the band’s only number-one hit on the U.S. Top Rock Tracks chart, staying atop for three weeks. While only reaching number seven in the UK, it stayed on the charts from 1985 to 1987, one of the longest time spans for any single in the history of the chart.

The song did not appear on the band’s subsequent album Once Upon a Time but appeared on the 1992 best-of Glittering Prize 81/92. It has since been a fixture of the band’s live sets – with an extended audience participation section during its inclusion on the 2015 tour to promote the band’s Big Music album.

Two versions were created for the release. A short version of 4:23 appeared on the single and the original motion picture soundtrack album of The Breakfast Club. A longer version of 6:32 was released on a 12″ single. This version contains longer breakdowns and drum fills, a second appearance of the bridge, and a longer ending.

John Leland from Spin wrote that “‘Don’t You Forget About Me,’ a romantic and melancholy dance track, therefore cuts ice both in the living room and on the dance floor.”

Molly Ringwald who starred in The Breakfast Club recorded her own version of the song on her 2013 album Except Sometimes.

SIDE A:
Don’t You (Forget About Me) (Long Version) 6:33
Lyrics By [Words], Music By – Keith Forsey, Steve Chiff*
Producer – Keith Forsey

SIDE B:
A Brass Band In African Chimes 9:21
Producer – Steve Lillywhite
Written-By – Simple Minds

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	Don’t You (Forget About Me)	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#1
1985	Don’t You (Forget About Me)	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	#1
1985	Don’t You (Forget About Me)	U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	#36
1985	Don’t You (Forget About Me)	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Pay	#9

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Virgin ‎– 601 766, Virgin ‎– 601 766-213
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: Europe
Released: Apr 1985
Genre: Pop, Rock
Style: New wave, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Pressed By – Sonopress

NOTES:
From the original motion picture soundtrack “The Breakfast Club”

Made in West Germany

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VINYL RESTORATION:
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Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
DAC: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

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April 8, 2021

Billy Idol – Don’t Stop (US 12″ EP)

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“Don’t Stop” is the first solo release by rock singer Billy Idol. Released in the US in 1981, it contains a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ UK #1 “Mony Mony,” which would become a later hit for him as a live version in 1987.

It also contains the song “Dancing with Myself”, which had previously been a commercially unsuccessful single release for Idol’s former band Gen X in the United Kingdom in 1980. “Dancing With Myself” (from that band’s LP Kiss Me Deadly) was not re-recorded for the Don’t Stop EP release but was remixed from Gen X’s 6:05 minute long extended version of the song and edited down into 4:50 minutes, from which a drum solo and chorus section was removed.

“Untouchables” is another Gen X song taken from the 1980 album Kiss Me Deadly, which was re-recorded for Don’t Stop.

The EP peaked at #71 on the Billboard 200 and generated considerable anticipation for the full-length album Billy Idol, released the following year.

For this promo release, the tracklisting is in a different order on the vinyl than on other releases and what is listed on the sleeve.

SIDE A:
Dancing With Myself (Long Version) 4:51
Backing Band [with] – Generation X (4)

Untouchables 3:36

SIDE B:
Mony Mony 5:02
Baby Talk 3:12

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
Poster: Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Chrysalis ‎– PV 44000 DJ
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Promo, Poster
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock, New Wave

CREDITS:
Engineer – Brian Reeves, Nigel Walker (tracks: A1)
Producer [Produced By] – Keith Forsey

NOTES:
Label: “FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY”

Matrix/Runouts/Cat No: “DJ”

Issued with large folded poster

The back cover lists songs in a different order on different sides. Label and actual play order is listed here.

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March 26, 2021

Irene Cara – Flashdance… What A Feeling (US 12″ Promo)

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“Flashdance… What a Feeling” is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance, written by Giorgio Moroder (music), Keith Forsey, and Irene Cara (lyrics), and performed by Cara. The song is in the key of B♭ Major and has a tempo of 122 beats per minute.

It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 issue dated May 28, 1983, spending six weeks atop the chart. On July 9, it was succeeded by “Every Breath You Take” by the Police and spent the rest of the month in the top three. It spent 14 weeks in the top 10, thus making it the longest-running top-10 single of 1983. The song was ranked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 1983. In 2008, the song was ranked at number 26 on Billboard’s All-Time Top 100, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the song spent one week at number two on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending July 9, 1983, behind “Baby Jane” by Rod Stewart.

In addition to topping the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cara’s only number-one song, it earned a platinum record, the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2004, it was placed at number 55 in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

SIDE A:
Flashdance… What A Feeling (Remix) 7:15
Lyrics By –Irene Cara, Keith Forsey

SIDE B:
Flashdance… What A Feeling (Instrumental) 8:05

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	Flashdance… What A Feeling	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#1
1983	Flashdance… What A Feeling	U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	#4
1983	Flashdance… What A Feeling	U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	#2
1983	Flashdance… What A Feeling	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#1

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Casablanca ‎– NBD 20248 DJ
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Promo, 26
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Engineer – Brian Reeves
Producer, Music By – Giorgio Moroder
Remix –John “Jellybean” Benitez

NOTES:
Pressed on liquid dye vinyl.

From the Motion Picture “FLASHDANCE”

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VINYL RESTORATION BY:
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THE GEAR:
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Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
DAC: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

RESTORATION NOTES:
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Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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