Tag: 1983

December 13, 2021

The Parachute Club – Rise Up US 12″ Promo)

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“Rise Up” is a pop song recorded by the Canadian group Parachute Club on their self-titled 1983 album. It was produced and engineered by Daniel Lanois, and written by Parachute Club members Billy Bryans, Lauri Conger, Lorraine Segato and Steve Webster, with additional lyrics contributed by filmmaker Lynne Fernie.

An upbeat call for peace, celebration, and “freedom / to love who we please,” the song was a national hit in Canada, and was hailed as a unique achievement in Canadian pop music:

Rarely does one experience a piece of music in white North America where the barrier between participant and observer breaks down. Rise Up rises right up and breaks down the wall.

According to Segato, the song was not written with any one individual group in mind, but as a universal anthem of freedom and equality; Fernie described the song’s lyrics as having been inspired in part by West Coast First Nations rituals in which young girls would “rise up” at dawn to adopt their adult names as a rite of passage.

It remains the band’s most famous song, and has been adopted as an activist anthem for causes as diverse as gay rights, feminism, anti-racism and the New Democratic Party. As well, the song’s reggae and soca-influenced rhythms made it the first significant commercial breakthrough for Caribbean music in Canada.

The song’s first ever live public performance took place at the 1983 Toronto Pride parade.

SIDE A:
Rise Up (Extended Dance Version) 6:45
Remix – Daniel Lanois

SIDE B:
Rise Up (Jellybean Mix) 5:58
Engineer [Remix] – John “Tokes” Potoker*
Remix – John “Jellybean” Benitez

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	Rise Up	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#26

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: RCA – JD-13655
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Promo, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Daniel Lanois

NOTES:
From the LP “The Parachute Club”

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December 1, 2021

Herbie Hancock – Rockit (Extended Dance Version) (US 12″)

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“Rockit” is a composition recorded by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and produced by Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn. Hancock released it as a single from his 1983 album Future Shock. The selection was composed by Hancock, Laswell, and Beinhorn.

The track was driven by its deejay scratch style, performed primarily by DXT, and its music video created by Godley & Creme, which was put in high rotation on MTV. “Rockit” won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1983, and it won five MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

“Rockit” peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart, and #71 on the US Billboard Hot 100, in addition the single reached the #1 position on the US Dance chart while peaking at #6 on the R&B chart.

SIDE A:
Rockit (Long / Album Version) 5:24

SIDE B:
Rockit (Short Version) 3:41

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	Rockit	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#71
1983	Rockit	U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	#6
1983	Rockit	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#1

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia – 44-03978
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro

CREDITS:
Bass – Bill Laswell
Drums [Bata] – Daniel Ponce
Electronics [DMX], Electronic Drums [Synare], Programmed By [Mini-Moog] – Michael Beinhorn
Engineer [Assistant, RPM Studios] –Mike Krowiak
Engineer [Garage Sale Recording] – Billy Youdelman, Bryan Bell, Dave Jerden
Engineer [OAO Studios] – Martin Bisi
Engineer [RPM Studios] – Dominic Maita
Management – Adam’s Dad Management
Management [Administration For Material] – Roger Trilling
Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
Mixed By – Dave Jerden
Producer – Herbie Hancock, Material
Producer [Associate] –Tony Meilandt
Synthesizer [Fairlight CMI, Mini-Moog], Electric Piano [Rhodes Chroma], Vocoder [Sennheiser], Clavinet [Clavitar], Electronics [Dr. Click Rhythm Controller], Keyboards [E-mu 4060 Digital] – Herbie Hancock
Turntables – Grand Mixer D.ST.*
Written-By – B. Laswell, H. Hancock, M. Beinhorn*

NOTES:
Basic tracks recorded at OAO Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y.
New York overdubs recorded at RPM Studios, N.Y.C.
Keyboard overdubs and additional recording at Garage Sale Recording, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed at Eldorado Recording Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Mastering: Masterdisk, N.Y.C.
Adam’s Dad Management, San Francisco, CA
Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn appear courtesy of OAO/Celluloid – Elektra Records
Grand Mixer D.ST. appears courtesy of Celluloid Records
Daniel Ponce appears courtesy of OAO/Celluloid Records

Special version from the Columbia LP “Future Shock”

Printed in U.S.A.

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October 26, 2021

A Flock Of Seagulls – Nightmares (UK 12″)

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“Nightmares” was the 7th single released by the synth-pop band A Flock Of Seagulls. The single was taken from the band’s second album “Listen.” “Nightmares” peaked at #53 on the UK singles chart on April 16, 1983, and #62 on the US Billboard Dance Chart.

The two B-sides reveal the often-overlooked experimental side of A Flock of Seagulls. Slightly edited versions of “The Last Flight of Yuri Gagarin” and “Rosenmontag” appeared on the original cassette and CD pressings of “Listen.” Both tracks are extended for this 12″ and have never appeared on CD.

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man in space. He orbited the earth in April 1961, a humiliating blow to the U.S. spaceflight team which at the time was in heated competition with its communist counterparts. His “last flight” took place on March 27, 1968, when the UTI MiG-15 (an experimental jet he was piloting) crashed. He was 34 years old. The Apollo 15 astronauts put a plaque on the moon naming all of the men who’d died in the space race. Gagarin was honored among them.

“Rosenmontag” (German for “Rose Monday”) is a festival that takes place in Cologne, Germany in the days leading up to Lent. Rosenmontag is the Monday prior to Ash Wednesday. It is likely that the band learned about this Catholic holiday while in Germany during the recording of “Listen.” Coincidentally, it is also the title of a 1930 film directed by Hans Steinhoff.

SIDE A:
Nightmares (12″ Version) 5:02
Producer – Mike Howlett

The Last Flight Of Yuri Gagarin 6:59
Producer – Mike Howlett, Mike Score

SIDE B:
Rosenmontag 8:02
Producer – Conny Plank, Dave Hutchins, Mike Howlett

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	Nightmares	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Plat	#62

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Jive – JIVE T 33
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Apr 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Bass, Vocals – Frank Maudsley
Composed By [All Material], Performer – A Flock Of Seagulls
Design [Sleeve] – Pete Watson (2)
Drums – Ali Score
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Paul Reynolds
Lead Vocals, Keyboards – Mike Score
Management – Checkmount Ltd.
Mastered By – BilBo (3)
Photography – Eric Watson
Written-By – A. Score, F. Maudsley, M. Score, P. Reynolds

NOTES:
Recorded at Conny Plank’s Studio, Neunkirchen, W.Germany.
Mixed at Union Studios, Munich.

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September 10, 2021

Agnetha Fältskog – The Heat Is On (Special Maxi Version) (Netherlands 12″)

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“The Heat Is On” is a song written by Florrie Palmer and Tony Ashton, and recorded by Swedish singer Agnetha Fältskog in 1983 as part of her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me.

The song had previously been recorded in 1979 by Noosha Fox, which failed to chart when Fox released it as a single. It had also been rewritten by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band as “On the Run” for their 1980 album Chance. Fältskog’s version reached No.1 in Sweden and Norway and peaked at No.2 in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the UK, “The Heat Is On” peaked at No.35, making it Faltskog’s highest-charting solo single in Britain until the release of her 2004 comeback single, “If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind”, which reached No.11.

The B-side of “The Heat Is On” was the song “Man”, written by Fältskog herself. Compared to her pre-ABBA albums where most of the songs were self-penned, this was the only song on the Wrap Your Arms Around Me album that she wrote herself.

In some countries, the record companies also released a 12″-single featuring an extended version of “The Heat Is On” instead of the album version.

SIDE A:
The Heat Is On (Special Maxi Version) 7:57
Written-By – Florrie Palmer, Tony Ashton

SIDE B:
Man 3:30
Written-By – Agnetha Fältskog

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Polydor – 813 192-1
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, EP, Maxi-Single
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1983
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Engineer – Michael B. Tretow
Producer – Mike Chapman

NOTES:
Recorded and mixed at Polar Music Studios, Stockholm
A Polar Music International Production
From the album “Wrap Your Arms Around Me”.

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