“Feel The Need” is a hit song originally recorded by the American R&B group Detroit Emeralds in 1972 titled “Feel The Need In Me”. The group re-recorded the song and re-released a disco version in 1977 as “Feel the Need”.
In 1979 American singer Leif Garrett released a cover of the song from his second studio LP of the same name. “Feel The Need” was the follow-up to his top ten single “I Was Made For Dancin ” released in October 1978. “Feel The Need” peaked at #57 on the U.S. Billboard Singles chart on June 2, 1979, after spending eight weeks on the survey. The single reached #38 in the U.K. “Feel The Need” represented the last success on the pop charts for Leif Garrett who had an 18-month run with several singles and two albums.
The b-side “New York City Nights” is a non-album track.
SIDE A: Feel The Need (Disco Mix) 5:38
Written-By – Abrim Tilmon
“2010” is a 1984 single released by the guitarist for the band The Police, Andy Summers for the soundtrack of the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
“2010” was a modern new-wave pop version of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra (the main theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey). Though Summers’ recording was included on the soundtrack album and released as a single, it was not used in the film. For the B-side to the single, Summers recorded another 2010-based track entitled “To Hal and Back”, though this appeared in neither the film nor the soundtrack album.
“This Ain’t No Fantasy” is a single recorded by American jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1985 on Columbia Records from the LP Fantasy. In December 1985 “This Ain’t No Fantasy” reached #88 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and #48 on the Billboard Dance Chart. There was not a music video filmed for the song.
On September 12, 2022, Lewis passed away in his sleep at his home in Chicago at age 87.
THIS SIDE: This Ain’t No Fantasy (Part One) (Extended Remix With Male Vocal) 6:06
THAT SIDE: This Ain’t No Fantasy (Part Two) (Extended Remix With Female Vocal) 7:06
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Originally posted January 11, 2013
“We Don’t Talk Anymore” is a song recorded by Cliff Richard, written by Alan Tarney, and produced by the Shadows’ rhythm guitarist, Bruce Welch. It was released in 1979 as a single and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1979, remaining there for four weeks, Richard’s tenth UK number one and his first since “Congratulations” in 1968.
Tarney wrote the song in 1979, planning to use it on an album with the Tarney/Spencer Band. However, Tarney played a demo of the song to Welch during a break in recording sessions for Where to Now by Charlie Dore (which the two were producing). Welch instantly knew it was going to be a hit and phoned up Richard’s manager Peter Gormley, as he believed “there was only one person who could record it — Cliff Richard”. It was then quickly recorded in May 1979 at RG Jones Recording Studios in Wimbledon.
It was released as a stop-gap single between the albums Green Light and Rock ‘n’ Roll Juvenile. However, it wasn’t meant to be included on Rock ‘n’ Roll Juvenile, as Richard didn’t think it was appropriate for “an energy-packed album of progressive rock ‘n’ roll”. However, record label EMI were insistent on including it after it became a massive hit and Richard reluctantly conceded. Due to the single’s success, Tarney was brought in to produce Richard’s next two albums I’m No Hero and Wired for Sound, and has said that “‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’ should have been on I’m No Hero”.
The single release featured the B-side “Count Me Out” written by Terry Britten and Welch and taken from Green Light. In several European countries, a 12-inch single was released, featuring an extended slightly remixed version of the song that runs to seven minutes long. This version has never been released on CD. The US release of the single features an edited version of “We Don’t Talk Anymore”, which fades over half a minute early.
In December 1990, a remixed version of “We Don’t Talk Anymore” was released as a single in continental Europe and in Australasia in November 1991. Taken from the live album From a Distance: The Event, it was remixed by Ian Curnow and Phil Harding at the PWL Studios. The single failed to chart.
Coming just before his 39th birthday, and just when it was announced that he was to receive the OBE for services to music, the record cemented his comeback, which continued well into the 1980s and 1990s. The single was his biggest worldwide seller; it was number one in Germany for five weeks (his only English-language German chart-topper, though he had two German-language number ones there in the 1960s), and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States. The fact that its chart run extended beyond the end of 1979 meant Richard became the first act to reach the Hot 100’s top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The single sold over 4 million copies worldwide, topping the charts in the UK, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. The song spent 4 weeks atop the Irish Singles Chart in September 1979. The song was certified Gold in both the UK and West Germany.
During the single’s run at the Number 1 position on the UK Singles Chart, Norrie Paramor, Richard’s original producer who guided his early career in the late 1950s and 1960s, died on 9 September 1979.
The song was the sixth video aired on MTV on its launch on 1 August 1981.
SIDE A: We Don’t Talk Anymore (Long Version) 6:54
Written-By – Tarney*
SIDE B: Count Me Out 4:13
Written-By – Welch, Britten
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
U.S. CHART HISTORY:
Year
Single
Chart
Position
1979
We Don’t Talk Anymore
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
#7
1979
We Don’t Talk Anymore
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks
#5
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI – 1C 052-07 076 YZ
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Maxi-Single
Country: Germany
Released: 1979
Genre: Rock
Style: Disco, Pop Rock
