“Feel The Need” is a hit song originally recorded by the American R&B group Detroit Emeralds in 1972 titled “Feel The Need In Me”. The group re-recorded the song and re-released a disco version in 1977 as “Feel the Need”.
In 1979 American singer Leif Garrett released a cover of the song from his second studio LP of the same name. “Feel The Need” was the follow-up to his top ten single “I Was Made For Dancin ” released in October 1978. “Feel The Need” peaked at #57 on the U.S. Billboard Singles chart on June 2, 1979, after spending eight weeks on the survey. The single reached #38 in the U.K. “Feel The Need” represented the last success on the pop charts for Leif Garrett who had an 18-month run with several singles and two albums.
The b-side “New York City Nights” is a non-album track.
SIDE A: Feel The Need (Disco Mix) 5:38
Written-By – Abrim Tilmon
NEW 2024 Transfer! NEW Meticulous Audio Restoration!
Originally posted January 11, 2013
“We Don’t Talk Anymore” is a song recorded by Cliff Richard, written by Alan Tarney, and produced by the Shadows’ rhythm guitarist, Bruce Welch. It was released in 1979 as a single and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1979, remaining there for four weeks, Richard’s tenth UK number one and his first since “Congratulations” in 1968.
Tarney wrote the song in 1979, planning to use it on an album with the Tarney/Spencer Band. However, Tarney played a demo of the song to Welch during a break in recording sessions for Where to Now by Charlie Dore (which the two were producing). Welch instantly knew it was going to be a hit and phoned up Richard’s manager Peter Gormley, as he believed “there was only one person who could record it — Cliff Richard”. It was then quickly recorded in May 1979 at RG Jones Recording Studios in Wimbledon.
It was released as a stop-gap single between the albums Green Light and Rock ‘n’ Roll Juvenile. However, it wasn’t meant to be included on Rock ‘n’ Roll Juvenile, as Richard didn’t think it was appropriate for “an energy-packed album of progressive rock ‘n’ roll”. However, record label EMI were insistent on including it after it became a massive hit and Richard reluctantly conceded. Due to the single’s success, Tarney was brought in to produce Richard’s next two albums I’m No Hero and Wired for Sound, and has said that “‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’ should have been on I’m No Hero”.
The single release featured the B-side “Count Me Out” written by Terry Britten and Welch and taken from Green Light. In several European countries, a 12-inch single was released, featuring an extended slightly remixed version of the song that runs to seven minutes long. This version has never been released on CD. The US release of the single features an edited version of “We Don’t Talk Anymore”, which fades over half a minute early.
In December 1990, a remixed version of “We Don’t Talk Anymore” was released as a single in continental Europe and in Australasia in November 1991. Taken from the live album From a Distance: The Event, it was remixed by Ian Curnow and Phil Harding at the PWL Studios. The single failed to chart.
Coming just before his 39th birthday, and just when it was announced that he was to receive the OBE for services to music, the record cemented his comeback, which continued well into the 1980s and 1990s. The single was his biggest worldwide seller; it was number one in Germany for five weeks (his only English-language German chart-topper, though he had two German-language number ones there in the 1960s), and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States. The fact that its chart run extended beyond the end of 1979 meant Richard became the first act to reach the Hot 100’s top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The single sold over 4 million copies worldwide, topping the charts in the UK, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. The song spent 4 weeks atop the Irish Singles Chart in September 1979. The song was certified Gold in both the UK and West Germany.
During the single’s run at the Number 1 position on the UK Singles Chart, Norrie Paramor, Richard’s original producer who guided his early career in the late 1950s and 1960s, died on 9 September 1979.
The song was the sixth video aired on MTV on its launch on 1 August 1981.
SIDE A: We Don’t Talk Anymore (Long Version) 6:54
Written-By – Tarney*
SIDE B: Count Me Out 4:13
Written-By – Welch, Britten
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
U.S. CHART HISTORY:
Year
Single
Chart
Position
1979
We Don’t Talk Anymore
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
#7
1979
We Don’t Talk Anymore
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks
#5
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI – 1C 052-07 076 YZ
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Maxi-Single
Country: Germany
Released: 1979
Genre: Rock
Style: Disco, Pop Rock
“You Can Get Over” is a 1979 Disco hit by American singer and songwriter Stephanie Mills taken from her third LP ‘What Cha’ Gonna Do with My Lovin”. The song was written and produced by James Mtume & Reggie Lucas. Lucas also produced several tracks for Madonna’s debut LP including “Borderline”, and “Lucky Star”, while James Mtume formed the R*B group Mtume best known for their hit “Juicy Fruit”.
“You Can Get Over” peaked at #8 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play chart in September 1979 (co-charting with “Put Your Body In It”) and just missed the Hot 100. The song also reached #55 on the Billboard R&B chart in December.
SIDE A: You Can Get Over 8:58
SIDE B: Deeper Inside Your Love 3:56
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
U.S. CHART HISTORY:
Year
Single
Chart
Position
1979
You Can Get Over
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play
#8
1979
You Can Get Over
U.S. Billboard Black singles
#55
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: 20th Century Fox Records – TCD-99
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Goldisc Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1979
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Disco
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of superstar, and icon Olivia Newton-John. Most of you that have been following me know that I am a massive ONJ fan so I wanted to do something special today.
In July of 1979, Disconet Remix Service released issue Volume 2 Number 11 which included a remix edit of one of the buried treasures from Olivia’s 1978 LP “Totally Hot” a cover version of Spencer Davis Group’s biggest U.S. hit, “Gimme Some Lovin’. Olivia did not release the song as a single however this would mark the first time Olivia appeared on any remix service. This edit along with many other early Disconet edits has been lost until now. The song was included as part of Olivia’s 1980 TV Special Hollywood Nights watch the video here.
The track was remixed and edited by American DJ and remixer Bobby “DJ” Guttadaro. A former professional pharmacist, “The man who’s got ears” – as he was called in the music industry – started DJing at Fire Island’s “The Ice Palace” in 1971 and, later, at Manhattan’s “Le Jardin” and “Infinity”, soon becoming one of the most renowned names in the ’70s disco scene.
Bobby DJ is unanimously regarded as an out-and-out pioneer in beat-mixing and disco remixing: No wonder he was a member of the original team of remixers of legendary subscription label Disconet Program Service, along with such other famed DJs as Savarese and Kevin Guilmet.
He was the first DJ to be presented with a Gold Disc – for his work on Love Unlimited Orchestra’s “Love’s Theme” – and, in 1976, he was also awarded – with Tom Savarese – the Billboard Magazine’s “National Disco DJ of the Year” prize.
Unfortunately, Bobby DJ passed away in New York in 1989 (reportedly of AIDS-related illness).
Please keep in mind that this edit was done with vinyl recordings and then re-recorded and transferred to vinyl for the Disconet release. I have done my best to meticulously clean and restore this track. I also made a custom front cover sleeve for this release. I hope you enjoy it.
SIDE A: Gimme Some Lovin’ (Disconet Edit) 4:22
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label:Disconet Program Service – MWDN 211
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: Jul 1979
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco
Includes Disconet Dj News Letter describing each side of the two record set.
Dolly DJ Guttadaro is an intentional “joke” misspelling for Bobby DJ Guttadaro, The newsletter jokingly reports “Dolly” to be Bobby’s lost twin sister.
