Month: June 2021

June 24, 2021

Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (UK 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1986

Celebrating Pride 2021

This post is for all of you who have had the courage to come out live your truth, and be yourself you are an inspiration to so many.

“True Colors” is a song written by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. It was both the title track and the first single released from American singer Cyndi Lauper’s second album. It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not help to write. Released late in the summer of 1986, the song would become a major hit for Lauper, spending two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her last single to occupy the top of the U.S. chart. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 25, 1986, beating Tina Turner’s “Typical Male” to the top spot. It also peaked at number three in Australia and New Zealand, and number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

“True Colors” also became a standard in the gay community. In various interviews, Lauper elaborated that the song had resonated with her because of the recent death of her friend, Gregory Natal, from HIV/AIDS. Years later, Lauper co-founded the True Colors Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating LGBTQ youth homelessness.

SIDE A:
True Colors 3:46
Written-By – T. Kelly/B. Steinberg*

SIDE B:
Money Changes Everything (Live) 6:21
Engineer, Mixed By – Ed Thacker
Written-By – T. Gray*

Heading For The Moon 3:18
Written-By – A. Stead, C. Lauper, S. Broughton Lunt*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1986	True Colors	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#1
1986	True Colors	U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	#5

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Portrait ‎– 650026 6, Portrait ‎– 650026•6
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Executive-Producer – David Wolff
Photography By – Annie Leibovitz
Producer – Cyndi Lauper, Lennie Petze

NOTES:
Track A taken from the Portrait LP: “True Colors”

Track B1 produced for Red Sox Music Productions, Inc. and is a special live version from the Portrait LP “She’s So Unusual”

Made in England.

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VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

THE GEAR:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge/Stylus: Ortofon 2M Black
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

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

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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June 22, 2021

Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Performance Mix) (Japan 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1985

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New 2021 Transfer!
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Originally posted August 8, 2016

Released one month after the “Murder Mix” this is the second Japan 12″ release for “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) issued on July 21, 1985.

Dead or Alive’s vocalist Pete Burns states in his autobiography that he composed “You Spin Me Round” by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new:

How did I write “Spin Me”? I listened to Luther Vandross’s ‘I Wanted Your Love’. It’s not the same chord structure, but then that’s the way I make music – I hear something and I sing another tune over it. I didn’t sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. I’m trying to structure the music and I know what I want. It’s like do this, do this, do this – and suddenly it hits. I don’t want to do Luther Vandross’s song, but I can still sing the same pattern over it. And there was another record, by Little Nell, called “See You ‘Round Like A Record”. So I had those two, Van Dross and Little Nell and – bingo! – done deal.

— Pete Burns, Freak Unique (2007)

According to Burns, the record company was unenthusiastic about “You Spin Me Round”, to such an extent that Burns had to take out a £2,500 loan to record it, then once it had been recorded “the record company said it was awful. It was unanimous – it was awful, it was rubbish.” Burns states that the band had to fund the production of the song’s video themselves.

The strings were based on Richard Wagner’s classical piece “Ride of the Valkyries”.

Interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion: The Hit Factory, in April 2015, Burns said that the confrontational attitude of the producers was met with an equally confrontational attitude from the band and that this led to “quite a bad vibe” for the entirety of the studio time, describing the experience as “a time of intense friction”.

SIDE A:
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Performance Mix) 7:27
Producer – Stock, Aitken & Waterman

SIDE B:
Mighty Mix(Part 2) 7:47
Engineer – Tim Palmer
Producer – Zeus B. Held

Ba Wish You Were Here
Bb What I Want
Bc Do It
Bd Misty Circles

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
OBI: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#11
1985	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#4
1985	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	U.S. Billboard Hot DanceMuisic Maxi-Singles Sales	#4

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Epic/Sony ‎– 12・3P-635
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Japan
Released: 21 Jul 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Artwork – Satori (14)
Photography By – Peter Brown (23)
Written-By – Dead Or Alive

NOTES:
Also available the LP “YOUTHQUAKE”

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION:-
DjPaulT
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RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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June 21, 2021

Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Murder Mix) (Japan 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1985

Celebrating Pride 2021

New 2021 Transfer!
NEW Meticulous Restoration!

Originally posted August 5, 2016

“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. On the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at no. 11 on 17 August of that year.

Coincidentally this 12″ was released on this date 36 years ago today.

According to Pete Burns, 12-inch singles comprised over 70% of the original sales of You Spin Me Round, and because these were regarded by the record label as promotional tools rather than sales, the band had to threaten legal action against the label before they received the royalties on them.

SIDE A:
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Murder Mix) 8:00
Directed By – Mike Stock And Matt Aitken*
Producer – Pete Waterman
Written-By – Dead Or Alive

SIDE B:
Misty Circles (Extended Version) 9:10
Mixed By – Zeus B. Held
Recorded By – David Allen
Written-By – Percy, Burns*, Hussey*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
OBI: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#11
1985	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#4
1985	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	U.S. Billboard Hot DanceMuisic Maxi-Singles Sales	#4

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Epic/Sony ‎– 12・3P-625
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: Japan
Released: 21 Jun 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Design, Artwork – Satori (14)
Liner Notes – Masaharu Yoshioka
Photography By – Peter Brown (23)
Producer – Stock, Aitken & Waterman

NOTES:
Also available the LP “YOUTHQUAKE”

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

June 18, 2021

Divine – You Think You’re A Man (UK 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1984

Celebrating Pride 2021

“You Think You’re a Man” is a single by American performance artist Divine, released in 1984. The song also appeared on the compilation album The Story So Far, released the same year. It was written by Geoff Deane, formerly the lead singer and main songwriter with both the Leyton Buzzards and Modern Romance and his sometime songwriting partner Keith Miller. Geoff Deane later went on to write the cross-dressing-themed movie Kinky Boots.

“You Think You’re a Man” was the first single produced by Stock/Aitken/Waterman to reach the UK Top 75 chart, peaking at number 16 in August 1984 and number 14 on the Irish Singles Chart.

It spent nine weeks on the German Singles Chart, peaking at number 32 in September 1984. It was Divine’s third Top 40 single on the chart.

The single was most successful in Australia, where it reached number 8 in October 1984 (for two weeks) and remained on the Kent Music Report Top 100 chart for 18 weeks. It also became Divine’s first single to chart on the New Zealand Singles Chart. It debuted and peaked at number 27 in March 1985, and spent four weeks on the chart.

SIDE A:
You Think You’re A Man 8:04
Directed By – Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Pete Ware
Producer – Barry Evangeli, Pete Waterman
Written-By – Geoff Deane*

SIDE B:
You Think You’re A Man (Radio Mix) 3:06
Directed By – Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Pete Ware
Producer – Barry Evangeli, Pete Waterman
Written-By – Geoff Deane*

Give It Up 3:05
Producer – Pete Waterman
Written-By – The Toy Shop

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Proto (2) ‎– ENA(T) 118, Proto (2) ‎– ENAT 118
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Hi NRG

CREDITS:
Directed By – Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Pete Ware
Photography By – Greg Gorman
Producer – Barry Evangeli, Pete Waterman

NOTES:
Manufactured In The UK

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Password: burningtheground

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