Category: David Bowie

December 20, 2023

David Bowie – Magic Dance (US 12″)

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Originally posted January 16, 2016

“Magic Dance” (also known as “Dance Magic”) is a song written and recorded by the English singer David Bowie for the Jim Henson musical fantasy film Labyrinth (1986). It was released as a single in limited markets worldwide in January 1987.

Bowie wrote and recorded five songs for Labyrinth, in which he also starred as Jareth, the king of the goblins. “Magic Dance” was written for a scene in which Jareth and his goblins entertain a crying baby that has been wished away to them by the film’s heroine, Sarah Williams. In the film, Bowie performs the number with Toby Froud as the baby, and 50 puppets and 12 costumed extras as the goblins.

Described as a “simple dance number that’s driven by electric bass and emphatic drums” “Magic Dance” includes song lyrics that refer to the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) starring Cary Grant and Shirley Temple, in which the two have a call and reply verse: “You remind me of a man.” “What man?” “The man with the power.” “What power?” “The power of hoodoo.” “Who do?” “You do!”. In “Magic Dance,” “man” is replaced with “babe” and “hoodoo” with “voodoo”. According to Nicholas Pegg, the verse is an “old playground nonsense chant” that was originally popularized by The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.

Bowie performed the baby’s gurgles in the song recording of “Magic Dance”, as backing vocalist Diva Gray’s baby, the intended vocalist, wouldn’t gurgle on the microphone. In the actual scene of the film, baby vocals were dubbed in by a more cooperative infant. During the movie’s production, and in the end credits, the song was referred to as “Dance Magic.”

Magic Dance” is the third track on the Labyrinth soundtrack, released in July 1986 to coincide with the film’s US premiere. In 1987 the song was released on 12″ in limited markets, including the US. A single version was mixed but never released, and an edit of the “Dance Mix” (incorrectly labeled as the ‘single mix’) was released on the New Zealand edition of Best of Bowie (2002). The single was not released commercially in the UK until the digital download version was made available in early 2007.

In 1986, “Magic Dance” peaked at #40 in New Zealand. At the time of Bowie’s death in 2016, “Magic Dance” was the 19th highest selling Bowie song digitally downloaded in the United Kingdom.

SIDE A:
Magic Dance (A Dance Mix) 7:15
Producer [Additional], Remix – Steve Thompson And Michael Barbiero*

SIDE B:
Magic Dance (Dub) 5:30
Producer [Additional], Remix – Steve Thompson And Michael Barbiero*

Within You 3:29

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI America – V-19217
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Single, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop

CREDITS:

Art Direction – Henry Marquez
Design – Carol Chen
Photography By [Front] – Davies And Starr
Producer – Arif Mardin, David Bowie
Written-By – D. Bowie*

NOTES:
From the motion picture soundtrack “Labyrinth”

Printed in U.S.A.

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April 7, 2021

David Bowie – Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Australia Limited Edition 12″)

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Originally posted March 21, 2013

“Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released as the title track of the 1982 erotic horror film Cat People. Recorded in July 1981, the song was written by Bowie with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder. The 1981 recording has been described as one of “the finest of Bowie’s recordings of the 1980s”. A re-recorded version of the song created a year and a half later, appears on the album Let’s Dance (1983).

The director Paul Schrader engaged Bowie for a theme song in 1981, with Moroder having already recorded most of the music. Bowie was to put lyrics to the main theme.

The song itself, in keeping with the dark tone of the film, has some goth rock influences, with Bowie singing in a deep baritone croon while being backed up by a female chorus. Bowie’s octave leap on the word “gasoline” has been called “a magnificent moment” and “among the most thrilling moments he ever committed to tape”.

Because of Moroder’s contract, the single was issued by MCA Records. The full-length 6:45 version appeared on the soundtrack album, the U.S., and European 12″ single’s, while a 4:08 edited version was made for the 7″ release. The single reached No. 26 in the UK, No. 13 in Canada, and No. 67 in the US – Bowie’s biggest hit there since “Golden Years”. It peaked at No. 1 in New Zealand, remaining there for three weeks, as well as in Sweden for four weeks. It was also No. 1 in Norway for seven consecutive weeks, and then returned to the top for a further week.

The single was released three separate times by MCA, first in March 1982 with “Cat People” as the A-side, then again two months later with “Paul’s Theme” as the A-side, and finally in November 1982 with “Cat People” back on the A-side. Yugoslav-born Hungarian composer Sylvester Levay contributed to the orchestration.

In December 1982, Bowie re-recorded the song for his album Let’s Dance, released the following year. This version was also released as the B-side to the title track’s single release and performed on Bowie’s Serious Moonlight Tour. He had originally planned on using the original version of the song, but Moroder’s label MCA Records refused to license it to EMI America. In the re-recorded version of the song, Stevie Ray Vaughan provided the guitar solos and riffs in the song.

**Although the disc label gives a duration of 6:41 for side B, this 12″ contains a rare 9 minutes plus extended version. According to some sources, the Australian 12″ was mistakenly pressed with this longer version and remains up to now unreleased in any other form.

SIDE A:
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Edited Version) 4:08

SIDE B:
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (OZ Extended Version) 9:23

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1982	Cat People (Putting Out Fire)	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#67
1982	Cat People (Putting Out Fire)	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#14
1982	Cat People (Putting Out Fire)	U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	#9

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: MCA Records ‎– DS 12087
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Limited Edition, Reissue, 9:23 extended version
Country: Australia
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Producer – Giorgio Moroder
Written-By – D. Bowie*, Moroder*

NOTES:
Taken from the soundtrack “CAT PEOPLE”
Side B version is exclusive to this release.

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February 17, 2021

David Bowie – Hallo Spaceboy (Remixes By Pet Shop Boys And Ball & Vauk) (US 12″ Promo)

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“Hallo Spaceboy” is a song by David Bowie from his 1995 album Outside and the third and final single from the album. The track was re-recorded in 1996 and issued as a remix featuring Pet Shop Boys as guest artists. Bowie and Brian Eno co-wrote the original album version of the song.

In late December 1995, Bowie was intending “Hallo Spaceboy” to be his next single after “Strangers When We Meet”, and recorded a video for the song at a concert in Birmingham. The song “Hallo Spaceboy” was performed twice at the venue, once as part of the regular set and once as the last encore, with that final performance intended to be the official music video for the song. Two live songs from the set, “Moonage Daydream” and “Under Pressure”, were used as b-sides to the single release as well. However, the Pet Shop Boys were approached to remix the song as well, and their remix was used as the official single version instead. Neil Tennant explained that since the original song had only a single verse, Lowe suggested using lyrical fragments from Bowie’s 1969 song “Space Oddity” to create a second verse. Bowie initially expressed reservation about the additions when Tennant initially told him during a telephone conversation, but later agreed that they worked well.

Tennant told NME in a 1997 interview that he and Lowe, working alongside Bowie, had completed what Tennant called the “Major Tom trilogy”, in reference to a fictional character who first appeared in Space Oddity and who had later recurred in Bowie’s 1980 song “Ashes to Ashes”. Tennant explained, “I said to David Bowie, ‘It’s like Major Tom is in one of those Russian spaceships they can’t afford to bring down,’ and he [Bowie] said, ‘Oh wow, is that where he is?'”

The final official music video for “Hallo Spaceboy” was directed by David Mallet, mixing shots of both Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys into a rapid-fire montage of Cold War era retro-footage of science fiction film clips, atomic bomb testing footage, and television advertising clips.

The remixes by Dave Ball (known as the instrumentalist of Soft Cell) and Ingo Vauk are based on the Pet Shop Boys Remix, but only Double Click Mix uses Neil Tennant’s vocals.

SIDE A:
Hallo Spaceboy (12″ Remix) 6:42
Remix –Pet Shop Boys
Vocals – Neil Tennant

Hallo Spaceboy (7″ Remix) 4:25
Remix –Pet Shop Boys
Vocals – Neil Tennant

SIDE B:
Hallo Spaceboy (Lost In Space Mix) 6:32
Remix, Producer [Additional] – Ball*, Vauk*

Hallo Spaceboy (Double Click Mix) 7:46
Remix, Producer [Additional] – Ball*, Vauk*
Vocals – Neil Tennant

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Virgin ‎– SPRO-11513
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Progressive House

CREDITS:
Co-producer [Original Track], Engineer [Original Track] – David Richards
Engineer – Bob Kraushaar
Lyrics By – Bowie*
Mastered By – Kevin Metcalfe
Music By –Eno*, Bowie*
Producer –Pet Shop Boys
Producer [Original Track] – Brian Eno, David Bowie
Programmed By – Pete Gleadall

NOTES:
Mastered at The Townhouse Digital Mastering Studios, London.

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January 7, 2021

David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group – This Is Not America (UK 12″)

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Originally posted January 25, 2016

“This Is Not America” is a song by English singer David Bowie and American jazz fusion band Pat Metheny Group, taken from the soundtrack to the 1985 film The Falcon and the Snowman.[1] It was released as a single in February 1985, reaching number 14 in the United Kingdom and number 32 in the United States.

The instrumental song that “This Is Not America” is based on, was written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays and is itself a song called “Chris”, which was also included on the soundtrack for the film.

Metheny later noted that Bowie’s words were “profound and meaningful—and absolutely perfect for the film.”

SIDE A:
This Is Not America (The Theme From The Original Motion Picture “The Falcon And The Snowman”) 3:51
Performed By – David Bowie / Pat Metheny Group
Written-By – D. Bowie*, P. Metheny*

SIDEB:
This Is Not America (Instrumental) 3:51
Performed By – Pat Metheny Group
Written-By – P. Metheny*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	This Is Not America	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#32
1985	This Is Not America	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	#7

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI America ‎– 12EA 190, EMI America ‎– 12 EA 190
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Art Direction – Henry Marquez
Design – Carol Chen
Mixed By – Bob Clearmountain
Photography By – Oskar Petr
Producer – David Bowie, Pat Metheny

NOTES:
Theme From The Original Motion Picture “The Falcon And The Snowman”

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