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

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“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

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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 17, 2021

Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin (US 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1987

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Originally posted March 20, 2013

“It’s a Sin” is a song by English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys from their second studio album, Actually (1987). Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, the song was released on 15 June 1987 as the album’s lead single. It became the duo’s second number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks atop the chart. Additionally, the single topped the charts in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, while reaching number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100.

A demo of the track was first cut in 1984 with Bobby Orlando, and the song’s form in the demo remained intact to the final version, although the released production is far more dramatic.

The dramatic, overblown production style of the song, loaded with synthesizers, orchestra hits, and bookended by a non sequitur sample of a NASA countdown, has come to exemplify the most theatrical extremes of the Pet Shop Boys’ musical style.[3] It remains a concert staple, being one of only two songs (alongside “West End Girls”) that has been played during every Pet Shop Boys tour.

The band stated at the time that they had been keen for Stock Aitken Waterman to produce the song, as they were huge fans. Neil has stated that Pete Waterman hated the demo so they turned instead to SAW’s remix engineer Phil Harding to remix the song for the US release (which went uncredited on the sleeve). They would work with him again on “I’m Not Scared”, the single they wrote for the Patsy Kensit band Eighth Wonder and remixes of “Always on My Mind”.

Bursting with melodramatic orchestral stabs, a NASA countdown, and huge-sounding, sweeping synths “It’s A Sin” secured itself in Gay culture permanently becoming a Pride Anthem.

SIDE A:
It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix) 9:16
Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards
Remix – Pet Shop Boys , Phil Harding

It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Dub Mix) 4:22
Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards
Remix – Pet Shop Boys , Phil Harding

SIDE B:
It’s A Sin (Remix) 8:16
Remix – Ian Levine

It’s A Sin (Disco Mix) 7:42
Mixed By [Additional] – Stephen Hague

You Know Where You Went Wrong 5:51
Producer – Pet Shop Boys, Shep Pettibone

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Cover: Near Mint

CHARTS:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1987	It’s A Sin	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#9
1987	It’s A Sin	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#3

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI America ‎– V-19256
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: June 15, 1987
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop, Hi NRG, Freestyle

CREDITS:
Mastered By – Herbie Jr. :^)*
Producer [Additional] – Stephen Hague (tracks: A1, A2, B2)
Producer, Engineer – Julian Mendelsohn (tracks: A1 to B2)
Written-By – Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe*

NOTES:
Packaged in 3-track sleeve for 1st 12″, stickered “4 special mixes of ‘It’s a Sin’”.

A1 and B1 “remixed in the U.K. for the USA”
A1 AKA “Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix”
A2 as “Phil Harding Latin Dub Mix”

Sleeve mistakenly lists:
(Album version can be heard on the forthcoming album, “Jealousy”-ELT-46972)

Helena Springs courtesy of Arista Records.

(Album version can be heard on the LP, “Actually”-ELJ-46972)

“You Know Where You Went Wrong” (Not Available on the album “Actually”-ELJ-46972)

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Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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June 16, 2021

Kelly Marie – Feels Like I’m In Love (US 12″)

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“Feels Like I’m In Love” is a song written and originally recorded by Ray Dorset with his band Mungo Jerry in 1977.

In 1979, Scottish singer Kelly Marie recorded the song for Pye Records. The song was a sleeper hit on the Scottish club scene before breaking through nationally in the summer of 1980, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart in September. The following year, aided by a number of remixes the song became a club hit in the US, reaching number ten on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Re-released on the Calibre record label with a new B-side “New York at Night”, it followed a rare breed of record labels who gained a chart-topping success after their debut release.

Charged with cheeky, campy horn flourishes, the song oozes a kind of carefree, shoulder-shimmying joy that won Kelly Marie a sizeable gay following becoming an instant gay anthem.

SIDE A:
Feels Like I’m In Love 6:21
Written-By – R. Dorset*

SIDE AA:
New York At Night 5:05
Rap – Bobby ‘DJ’ Guttadaro, Lance Wise
Written-By – P. Yellowstone, S. Voice*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1980	Feels Like I’m In Love	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#10

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Coast To Coast (2) ‎– 4Z8 02023, Roadshow ‎– 4Z8 02023
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Disco

CREDITS:
Producer – Peter Yellowstone
Remix – Bobby ‘DJ’ Guttadaro*

NOTES:
Manufactured and distributed by CBS Records/CBS Inc.

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June 15, 2021

Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper (Remix) (UK 12″)

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Originally posted May 21, 2011

“Pull Up to the Bumper” was the second single released by Grace Jones from her critically-acclaimed 1981 album Nightclubbing. The song has since come to be one of Jones’ signature tunes. The song was co-written by Jones herself, Sly Dunbar, Dana Mano, and Robbie Shakespeare.

Upon its release, “Pull Up to the Bumper” spent seven weeks at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, as well as becoming a Top-5 single on the U.S. R&B chart.

In 1985 the track was remixed and re-released to promote the Island Life compilation, the Extended Remix includes additional keyboard overdubs and remix by Paul “Groucho” Smykle. This 1985 remix peaked at #12 on the UK pop chart in early 1986.

Jones’ genre-hopping artistry earned her a diehard LGBTQ+ fan base from day one, largely because of her very uncommon divadom. By gleefully toying with masculine and feminine conventions, she offered her queer audience a constantly evolving performance in which they could recognize their own sexual fluidity. “Bumper” succinctly captures Jones’ protean mix of playfulness and aggression, simultaneously tongue-in-cheek and deadly serious. It’s a masterstroke of double entendre that, with its sinuous reggae-disco backdrop and Jones’ snarled vehicular puns, really only demands one thing from you: that you move.

SIDE A:
Pull Up To The Bumper (Extended Remix) 6:25
Remix – Paul “Groucho” Smykle
Producer – Alex Sadkin, Chris Blackwell
Written-By – Dana Mano, Grace Jones, Koo Koo Baya

SIDE B:
La Vie En Rose 7:20
Arranged By – Duke Williams
Producer – Tom Moulton
Written-By – E. Piaf*, Louiguy

Nipple To The Bottle 5:50
Producer – Alex Sadkin, Chris Blackwell
Written-By – Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Cover: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Island Records ‎– 12 IS 240
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Downtempo, Disco

CREDITS:
Mastered By – GD* (tracks: B1, B2), Jonz* (tracks: A)

NOTES:
Pull Up To The Bumper
A version of this song appears on the Grace Jones album ‘Island Life’
Rydim Music Ltd.
(P) 1985 Original sound recording made by Island Records Inc.

La Vie En Rose
Produced for Beam Junction Productions
Taken from the album ‘Island Life’
Noel Gay Music-MPCS
(P) 1977 Island Records Inc.

Nipple To The Bottle
Taken from the album ‘Living My Life’
Rydim Music Ltd.
(P) 1982 Island Records Inc.

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VINYL ReSTORATION:
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