Burning The Ground Exclusive 1981
“Menergy” is a 1981 dance single by producer Patrick Cowley.
“One day, while we were recording that album,” Marty Blecman, a former disc jockey and Cowley’s business partner, wrote before his death in 1991, “We got high and I added an ‘M’ in front of title track called ‘Energy,’ and we came up with all these completely gay lyrics for it. In the end, that’s what we used.”
Along with the song “I Want to Take You Home”, “Menergy” spent two weeks atop the Billboard Dance/Disco chart in October and November 1981. It was Cowley’s most successful single of four Top 10 dance chart hits, all of which occurred within the span of 15 months. As with Cowley’s other singles, “Menergy” did not place on any other chart in the USA. In 1984, a posthumous version of “Menergy” was released where Sylvester’s vocals were featured.
It was used in 2009 in the trailer for the video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, as well as the in-game radio station K109 The Studio.
Cowley recorded in a style that has drawn comparisons to that of Giorgio Moroder and is often credited with pioneering electronic dance music.
SIDE A:
Menergy 8:44
Written-By – M. Blecman, P. Cowley
SIDE B:
I Wanna Take You Home 7:25
Written-By – P. Cowley*
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
U.S. CHART HISTORY:
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Menergy/I wanna Take You Home | U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Disco | #1 |
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Fusion Records – FPSF 003
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Hi NRG, Disco
CREDITS:
Lacquer Cut By – js*
Producer – Patrick Cowley
Producer [Associate] – Marty Blecman
NOTES:
Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs
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VINYL TRANSFER & AUDIO RESTORATION:
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Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner
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Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
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Burning The Ground Exclusive 1985
Celebrating Pride 2021
New 2021 Transfer!
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Originally posted August 8, 2016
Released one month after the “Murder Mix” this is the second Japan 12″ release for “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) issued on July 21, 1985.
Dead or Alive’s vocalist Pete Burns states in his autobiography that he composed “You Spin Me Round” by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new:
How did I write “Spin Me”? I listened to Luther Vandross’s ‘I Wanted Your Love’. It’s not the same chord structure, but then that’s the way I make music – I hear something and I sing another tune over it. I didn’t sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. I’m trying to structure the music and I know what I want. It’s like do this, do this, do this – and suddenly it hits. I don’t want to do Luther Vandross’s song, but I can still sing the same pattern over it. And there was another record, by Little Nell, called “See You ‘Round Like A Record”. So I had those two, Van Dross and Little Nell and – bingo! – done deal.
— Pete Burns, Freak Unique (2007)
According to Burns, the record company was unenthusiastic about “You Spin Me Round”, to such an extent that Burns had to take out a £2,500 loan to record it, then once it had been recorded “the record company said it was awful. It was unanimous – it was awful, it was rubbish.” Burns states that the band had to fund the production of the song’s video themselves.
The strings were based on Richard Wagner’s classical piece “Ride of the Valkyries”.
Interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion: The Hit Factory, in April 2015, Burns said that the confrontational attitude of the producers was met with an equally confrontational attitude from the band and that this led to “quite a bad vibe” for the entirety of the studio time, describing the experience as “a time of intense friction”.
SIDE A:
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Performance Mix) 7:27
Producer – Stock, Aitken & Waterman
SIDE B:
Mighty Mix(Part 2) 7:47
Engineer – Tim Palmer
Producer – Zeus B. Held
Ba Wish You Were Here
Bb What I Want
Bc Do It
Bd Misty Circles
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
OBI: Near Mint
U.S. CHART HISTORY:
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | #11 |
| 1985 | You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) | U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play | #4 |
| 1985 | You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) | U.S. Billboard Hot DanceMuisic Maxi-Singles Sales | #4 |
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Epic/Sony – 12・3P-635
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Japan
Released: 21 Jul 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
CREDITS:
Artwork – Satori (14)
Photography By – Peter Brown (23)
Written-By – Dead Or Alive
NOTES:
Also available the LP “YOUTHQUAKE”
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VINYL RESTORATION:-
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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
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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985
Celebrating Pride Month!
“Knock on Wood” is a 1966 hit song written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper and originally performed by Floyd.
In 1979 American soul/disco singer Amii Stewart released a disco version of the song. It reached number one in the U.S. charts in April 1979; it also made it to the soul singles and disco charts, becoming the best-known version of the song. This recording was co-produced by Simon May. It reached the Top 10 twice in the UK, first in 1979 (peaking at number 6) and again in a remixed version backed with “Light My Fire” / “137 Disco Heaven” in 1985 (peaking at number 7).
“Knock On Wood” would become one of the “anthems for the LGBTQ community.”
SIDE A:
Knock On Wood (Ash 48) 7:45
SIDE AA:
Light My Fire (137 Disco Heaven) 7:33
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Sedition – EDITL 3303
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Hi NRG, Disco
CREDITS:
Drum Programming [Drum Doctor] – Peter Boita
Keyboards [Emulator / Keyboards] – Dave Hewson*
Other [Genetic, Uncredited Mixing & Engineering] – Timm Baldwin
Other [Maison Rouge, Uncredited Mixing & Engineering] – Charles Harrowelt
Other [P R T, Uncredited Overdubs] – Bob Mallet
Other [Uncredited, The Entertainment Business] – Simon Lait
Producer [Original Productions] – Barry Leng
Remix – Alan Coulthard, Barry Leng
Sleeve, Design – Carz
NOTES:
Remixed at Maison Rouge, Genetic
Overdubs PRT Studios
Marketed and distributed by Precision Records & Tapes Ltd
Find the 12″ at DISCOGS
Made In England
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
DAC/Phono Pre-amp: 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 USED:
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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