BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985
“Shy Girl” is the debut solo single by American pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actress Stacey Q. “Shy Girl” appeared on the long play cassette Stacey Q produced by Jon St. James and released by On The Spot Records. The cassette was limited to 500 copies. “Shy Girl” was only released in the U.S. on 7″ and 12″ formats. The singled did not chart but paved the way for her next single “Two Of Hearts”.
The “Dub Version” has never appeared on CD.
SIDE A:
Shy Girl 4:57
SIDE B:
Shy Girl (Dub Version) 6:41
Remix – Twilight Jones
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: On The Spot – NRS-108, NRS – NRS-108
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
CREDITS:
Performer – W J W*
Producer – Jon St. James
Written-By – St. James*, Hahn*, Swain*
NOTES:
Produced for Formula 1 Music.
Find the 12″ on DISCOGS
EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube: Tung-Sol 12AX7ECC803-S Gold Electron Tube
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: 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)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
Thanks for the post, and all the excellent work you do to bring us so many classics! Just wanted to add that “Shy Girl” did in fact chart on the Hot 100 – for 11 weeks, despite peaking at #89. This was in early 1987, after “Two of Hearts” and “We Connect” peaked. I believe it’s one of the lowest peaking songs to have spent 10 or more weeks on the Hot 100, in fact! One request I’d have is maybe a Tommy Page tribute single or two if you have them – it was very sad to hear of… Read more »
As always a big thank you DjPaulT! Always liked Stacey Q. She has had so many great tracks over the years and is a very underrated artist. I did not know this debut single from her though. The dub version is awesome. I think most people in S.A. probably know Stacey Q from her hit “Two of Hearts” which was played a lot down here at the time. “We Connect” is also another good track from that era and similar sounding to “Two of Hearts”. But for me, 1989’s “Give You All My Love” is probably my favourite from her,… Read more »
Good find, Paul!
I am blown away, Paul, over this Stacey Q confection. I love this electro piece so much. The drum programming is intricate and that dub is to die for!!! To me, this is her best, but I’m not too familiar with her entire back catalog. “Two Of Hearts” was alright, but the sampling of “I Need You” really didn’t impress me much. Sure, it wasn’t a John Robie production, but this one is massively creative and is so alternative new wave electro. This is my kind of music for sure. Again, hats off to you Paul for giving me a… Read more »
I knew this was something you would enjoy Jeff it is just so cool. Stacey reall was an overlooked icon of the 80s. I have more of her singles that I plan to post 🙂
Thanks Paul,
I never heard of this song before but it sounds great.
Echo, voice effect and pattern drums with electro bass… awesome.
More Stacey Q post, especially “Don’t make a fool of yourself”.
Respect.☺
I would love it if he did “Insecurity”, “Music Out of Bounds”, “I Love You” and “Give You All Your Love”.
Pretty sure I have at least one or two of those singles Jon 🙂
You’re welcome BE.D12” I think I can do that 12″ for you 🙂
“Shy week”? 😀
Many thanks.
Pablo
You’re welcome Pablo 🙂
Paul, this is a fantastic post! I realize it was a thematic follow-up to “Shy Boys,” but I beg you to do series of Stacey Q singles. I feel like she was vastly underrated. So much of her post “Two of Hearts” material deserved more attention.
I will be posting more of her singles JJ 🙂
I hope you will
What an incredible find, Paul!! I am not aware of this single until now, thanks to you. I love these rarities you have. I do like Stacey Q, so I’m interested in hearing this one. So cool of you to expose us to it. Gosh, when I come here to BTG, I feel like I’m back in my youth with this constant craving for new and unusual music. The 80’s were such a blast. Even a co-worker of Karen’s was singing “Jukebox” by The Flirts today. I commented that this was a decade of so much innovation and experimentation. And… Read more »
This is one hot song Jeff I know you are gonna love it. Hope you enjoyed Ana yesterday 🙂
Paul, I really, really, REALLY LIKED, “Shy Boys” by Ana. I couldn’t get the melody out of my head. I would have loved hearing this on a big club sound system. It’s so much fun and frothy. I’m really loving the theme for this week. Great 80’s songs by great 80’s Ladies. Perfect in everyway.
Jeff
I am so excited you liked it Jeff it’s always had a place in my heart 🙂