BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986
“Nail It To The Wall” was the first single lifted from the Motown Records album Take Me All The Way by American R&B singer Stacy Lattisaw. Arranged by Fred Zarr, produced and remixed by John “Jellybean” Benitez “Nail It To The Wall” peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 while climbing to #4 R&B and #2 Dance in 1986.
SIDE A:
Nail It To The Wall (12″ Version) 6:08
SIDE B:
Nail It To The Wall (12″ Instrumental) 4:45
Nail It To The Wall (Edit Of 12″ Vocal) 3:54
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
U.S. CHART HISTORy:
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Nail It To The Wall | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | #48 |
| 1986 | Nail It To The Wall | U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs | #4 |
| 1986 | Nail It To The Wall | U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play | #2 |
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Motown – 4563MG
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
CREDITS:
Arranged By – Fred Zarr
Engineer [Assistant] – Mark Roule
Producer, Remix, Arranged By – Jellybean*
Remix [Engineer] – Michael Hutchinson
Written-By – A. Roman*, S. B. Lunt*
NOTES:
Produced for Jellybean Productions, Inc.
Sigma Sound Studios, N.Y.C.
Album Version in, “Take Me All The Way”
Find the 12″ at DISCOGS
VINYL RESTORATION BY:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net
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: Schiit Mani
Soundcard: ESI Juli@ XTe Audio Interface
Monitiring: Novation Audiohub 2×4 Audio Interface
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2, ocenaudio
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
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One of my favorite songs from the 80’s! Thank you so much for sharing this song!
Hey Paul,
Thought about this today and wanted to share it with you because I know you’ll appreciate it. Stacy did a great little track called “Attack of the Name Game” and did you know that Patrick Cowley added additional synths and keyboards to it? He was uncredited, but I know how much you love Patrick like me so I thought I’d share it with you. Have a nice day!
Jeff
Clearly a different direction on Motown compared to her years on Cotillion.
I liked this song but never picked up the 12″, so Thank You for posting it. It sounds very good.
She did a wonderful cover of Diana Ross’ “I thought it took a little time” on her prev. album “I’m not the same girl” I know it doesn’t quite fit here, but it such a pretty ballad that I think I’ll dig out the vinyl & give it a spin.
Another great post from paul thnxxx
Hi paul, thanks, great work ¡¡¡,,,,question : You have Breakfast club – Right on track 12″ version ?
Thanks Bro¡¡ 🙂
You’re welcome see what I can do 🙂
… It‘s on my wishlist too, Paul!
Discogs has the styles for this as Electro, Disco…I feel like that isn’t quite right. What Discogs styles would you give it?
I changed it to Funk, Rhythm & Blues.
Yet another fun song!! I always thought there were more mixes but I guess not. 🙂
My favorite use of this song was in the 1986 Flashback Medley by Ultimix…listen below as it transitions from Janet Jackson’s Control to Nail It To The Wall and then into Pet Shop Boys. Have a great weekend everyone!
https://youtu.be/FAf5iHBWNUc?t=785
Very cool thanks so much Fred 🙂
TGIF!! it’s the weekend Paul!! I’m all over this one! Stacy Lattisaw is tremendous and this song is a knock-out punch!! I am familiar with the Ultimix remix, so I am jazzed to have the original 12-inch from you. I also love when they give edited versions of the 12-inch mix. I wish a lot more dance discs would have done this. Thank you for a fantastic week of posts like always and I’m looking forward to cobbling them all together for a CD compilation. I’ve been doing that lately; filling up a weeks worth of posts on a single… Read more »
Hahaha well said, dear Jeff.
I have it all in 24BIT FLAC on a 1 terabyte harddisk in my car. So I can drive to the end of the world and back listening to Paul´s fantastic posts in fantastic quality 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend!!
s´n´d
I love this Song And Dance!! I really need to do the same thing for the car as well. I do have Paul’s tracks saved to a hard drive (which I need to back that up just in case) but I do like it old school with the compact disc. BUT, you have everything thus so far and you can really access all these incredible goodies Paul has generously shared with the world so you can go anywhere with the best beats. He is PHENOMENAL!! I so love the man!! And I so admire you too Song And Dance. I… Read more »