Various Artists – A Very DjPaulT Christmas (US Compilation)

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Season’s Greetings! I originally put this collection together for Christmas 2020. I wanted to bring it back this year for those who are new to Burning The Ground or those who may have missed it the first time around.

I hope that this Christmas compilation will become part of your holiday tradition every year. I put together some of my favorites as well as some well-known and lesser-known Christmas tracks.

My Christmas Wish is that this holiday season finds you all safe and well.

-DjPaulT

**For this re-posting I have added two extra tracks “Love Makes The World Go Round” by Madonna, and “We Shall Be Free” by Garth Brooks.

TRACKS:
01 – Chevy Chase & Beverly D’Angelo – Dialogue – Take It Russ… 0:29
02 – Debbie Gibson – Sleigh Ride 3:13
03 – Dead Or Alive – Blue Christmas (2000 Remix Version) 3:41
04 – Martin L. Gore – Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth 3:07
05 – Eurythmics – Winter Wonderland 3:36
06 – Mavis Staples – Christmas Vacation (Radio Version) 3:21
07 – Corey Hart – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 3:34
08 – Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas (Original Version) 3:57
09 – Bangles – Hazy Shade Of Winter 3:43
10 – The Power Station – Harvest For the World 3:37
11 – Lindsey Buckingham – Holiday Road 2:10
12 – Prince & The Revolution – Another Lonely Christmas (US Remix) 6:49
13 – George Michael – Jesus To A Child (Radio Edit) 6:10
14 – Frankie Goes To Hollywood – The Power of Love 5:28
15 – Annie Lennox and Al Green – Put A Little Love In Your Heart 3:49
16 – Erasure – She won’t Be Home (Lonely Christmas) 3:31
17 – Sheena Easton – It’s Christmas (All Over The World) 4:58
18 – Book Of Love – We Three Kings 3:19
19 – New Kids On The Block – This One’s For The Children 4:00
20 – Olivia Newton-John – The Way Of Love 4:14
21 – Kate Bush – Home for Christmas 1:45
22 – Sinead O’Connor – Silent Night (Long Version) 4:45

BONUS TRACKS:
23 – Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Single Version) 3:40
24 – ABBA – Happy New Year 4:23

**2023 Bonus Tracks
25 – Madonna – Love Makes The World Go Round 4:31
26 – Garth Brooks – We Shall Be Free 3:48

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Not On Label
Catalog #: DJPTHOL1
Format: 26xfile, Compilation, FLAC
Released: 2020
Country: US
Credits: Compiled By: DjPaulT
Artwork/Design By DjPaulT

NOTES
Special thanks to all of the artists, producers, and record labels.
All tracks taken from original CD sources digitally mastered
This compilation 2020 DjPaulT

Peace on Earth!

DjPaulT
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SOFTWARE USED:
SOFTWARE USED:
Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
Audacity 2.4 (Editing)
Adobe Photoshop CC
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
Digitally Mastered

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December 21, 2023

Donna Summer – Winter Melody/Spring Affair (US 12″)

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Originally posted December 21, 2010

“Winter Melody” is a song by Donna Summer released as a single in late 1976 from her Four Seasons of Love album. It became a top 30 hit in the UK, where it peaked at #27.

By this time Summer was making her name as the queen of disco music, though this song is a soul ballad. The song represents the “winter” phase of the concept album, and speaks of a woman struggling to come to terms with the fact that her relationship has ended. As with much of Summer’s material at that time (particularly with songs found on her concept albums), the song played for a considerable amount of time (over six minutes), however, the song was edited for its release as a single. “Winter Melody” peaked at #43 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

The flip side “Spring Affair” (which represents the “spring” phase of the concept album) tells of the beginning of a new relationship. “Spring Affair” is more than eight minutes long, though it was edited for release as a single. The song peaked at number 15 on Spain’s singles charts and number 3 on Spain’s Radio chart. “Spring Affair” peaked at #43 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

SIDE A:
Winter Melody (Edit) 4:00

SIDE B:
Spring Affair (Edit) 3:41

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1977	Winter Melody	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#43
1977	Winter Melody	U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	#24
1977	Spring Affair	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#43
1977	Spring Affair	U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	#8
1977	Spring Affair	U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	#21

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Casablanca – NBD 100, Casablanca – NBD-100
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco

CREDITS:

Producer – Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Written-By – Summer*, Moroder*, Bellotte*

NOTES:
From the Casablanca LP, “Four Seasons Of Love”

An Oasis Recording

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VINYL TRANSFER & AUDIO RESTORATION:
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Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK7
Cartridge/Stylus: Ortofon 2M Black PnP MkII
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

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

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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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VINYL TRANSFER & AUDIO RESTORATION:
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December 19, 2023

Band Aid II – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Canada Cassette Single)

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“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of popular British and Irish musical acts.

A second version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was recorded under the name of Band Aid II in 1989, overseen by the most successful British production team of the late 1980s, Stock Aitken Waterman. Geldof had telephoned Pete Waterman to ask him to produce a new version of the song to aid the ongoing situation in Ethiopia, and within 24 hours the recording session had been arranged at Stock Aitken Waterman’s studios on London’s South Bank. The recording took place over the weekend of 2 and 3 December, and featured several artists who had already been produced by SAW, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Bananarama, Sonia, and Cliff Richard, as well as other artists who had big hits in 1989, such as Lisa Stansfield, Jimmy Somerville, Wet Wet Wet and Bros. Bananarama’s Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward became the only artists to appear on both the 1984 and 1989 versions of the record. Siobhan Fahey, who had been part of Bananarama’s line-up at the time the first recording of the song was released, had left the group in 1988.

The lyrics were rearranged for a more traditional ‘verse and chorus’ structure, with the opening verse being split in two with a short repeat of the ending chorus being played at the end of both, followed by the “here’s to you” section and a final lengthened version of the closing chorus (with commentary by Michael Buerk played over the outro in the music video).

Released on 11 December 1989, the Band Aid II version spent three weeks at number one in the UK, becoming the Christmas number one single and the last number one single of the 1980s, and ended the year as the ninth biggest selling single of 1989.

SIDE A:
Do They Know It’s Christmas? 4:26

SIDE B:
Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Instrumental) 4:26

CASSETTE GRADE:
Cassette: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: PolyGram – 873 646-4
Format: Cassette, Single
Country: Canada
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:

Mixed By – Mixmaster Phil Harding*
Producer – Stock Aitken Waterman*
Written-By [uncredited] – Geldof*, Ure*

NOTES:
Cassette plays identical tracklisting on both sides.

DOLBY NR Enabled

Personnel:
(adapted from credits on the back cover of the single sleeve)

Bananarama
Big Fun
Bros
Cathy Dennis
D Mob
Jason Donovan
Kevin Godley
Glen Goldsmith
Kylie Minogue
The Pasadenas
Chris Rea
Cliff Richard
Jimmy Somerville
Sonia
Lisa Stansfield
Technotronic (incorrectly listed as “Technotronics” on the sleeve)
Wet Wet Wet

Musicians:

Matt Aitken – keyboards, guitar
Luke Goss – drums
Chris Rea – guitar
Mike Stock – keyboards
The sleeve also credits “A Linn” with playing drums on the record, a joking reference to the programmed Linn drum machine.

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CASSETTE TRANSFER & AUDIO RESTORATION:
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THE GEAR:
Cassette Deck: Nakamichi BX-300 Discrete 3-Head Cassette Deck
DAC/Phono Pre-amp Line In Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
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:
Cassette transfer was recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at

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