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Karen Young – Hot Shot (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1978

Side 1

DISCO FRIDAY!

Hot Shot was the name of a popular disco single recorded by American singer Karen Young. The single, which is also the name of her 1978 album, reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart the week of August 5, 1978 and spent two weeks there.

The track also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it only got as far as number 67 that same year. Although this single would make Young a one-hit wonder, “Hot Shot” is still considered by many as a club classic and an Old School radio staple to this day. “Hot Shot” was also featured in the 1990 movie “Reversal of Fortune” and was later used as a sample in Daft Punk’s song “Indo Silver Club” on their 1996 album Homework.

n 2007, nearly 30 years after the original charted and 16 years after Young’s death (in 1991), MaxRoxx Music released “Hot Shot: The Karen Young Reheat,” which is an updated version of “Hot Shot,” this time with new mixes using the original’s vocals. This version, which charted as “Hot Shot 2007,” also reached the Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it peaked at number 7 in March 2008. Also, in 1999, Blondie recorded a cover of the song and included it on the Japanese edition of their album No Exit and “No Exit” single.

Karen Young died of a bleeding ulcer in January 1991, at age 39.

SIDE A:
Hot Shot (Vocal) 8:40

SIDE B:
Hot Shot (Instrumental) 8:24

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint (company)

CHARTS:

Year Single Chart Position
1978 Hot Shot U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #67
1978 Hot Shot U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/ Club Play #1

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: West End Records ‎– WES 12111
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Disco
Credits: Producer, Arranged By, Written-By – Andy Kahn, Kurt Borusiewicz

NOTES:
Recorded at Queen Village Recording Studios, Phila., PA.
Mastered at Frankford/Wayne Labs., Phila., PA.

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Side 2

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Musical Youth – Never Gonna Give You Up (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1983

A. Front

Musical Youth’s third single, “Never Gonna Give You Up”, released in early 1983, became band’s second biggest hit in the United Kingdom peaking at #6 and Ireland #5. In the United States the single did not chart.

SIDE A:
Never Gonna Give You Up (New Mix) 10:33

SIDE B:
Mirror Mirror 2:37
Rub ‘N’ Dub 6:15

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: MCA Records – MCA-13965
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Reggae
Style: Reggae, Dub
Credits: Producer – Peter Collins
Written-By – Frederick Waite, Sr.* (tracks: A, B1), Musical Youth (tracks: A, B2)

NOTES:
The “New Mix” is exclusive to this release
Recorded In England
From the MCA LP “YOUTH OF TODAY”

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B. Back

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Blancmange/West India Company – Lose Your Love/Ave Maria (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985

A. Front

R E Q U E S T

“Lose Your Love” is a 1985 single by English synthpop duo Blancmange. The song was released as the second of three singles from the band’s third studio album Believe You Me.

After the previous leading single “What’s Your Problem?” peaked at #40 in the UK, “Lose Your Love” showed a big decline in Blancmange’s popularity, with the single peaking at #77 for a total of 2 weeks in the UK. It fared better in America, where it peaked at #2 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart.

In the official American Billboard Magazine of December 14, 1985, the song was listed under the Hot Dance/Disco section, based on club play and sales. The song was listed under “Breakouts”, explaining that the single had future potential, based on club play for the week.

In the 1986 Sci-Fi film Flight of the Navigator, Blancmange appear on David’s TV with the music video for “Lose Your Love” when he is introduced to music videos by Carolyn, played by a young Sarah Jessica Parker.

“Lose Your Love” was remixed for the single version, instead of using exactly the same version as the album version. The single’s B-Side was the instrumental album track “John”, also taken from Believe You Me. Like “Lose Your Love”, the track was also written by Arthur and Luscombe.

The single was released in the UK, Canada, Japan and all throughout Europe via London Records, whilst it was released in America through Sire Records.

In America only, a specially-priced maxi 12″ vinyl single featured the “Extended Version” of “Lose Your Love”, whilst the B-Side was by West India Company, a band relating to Blancmange, and featuring Luscombe. The track was an “Extended Version” of “Ave Maria”, featuring Vince Clarke as guest musician on pyrotechnics. “Ave Maria (Om Ganesha)” was originally the West India Company’s debut single in 1984.

SIDE A:
Blancmange – Lose Your Love (Extended Version) 10:12
Backing Vocals – Katie Kissoon, Stevie Lange
Drums – Justin HildrethEngineer – Gary Hellman
Engineer [Assistant] – Renney Hill*
Guitar – David Rhodes
Mixed By, Edited By – John Luongo
Producer – Stewart Levine
Written-By – Neil Arthur, Stephen Luscombe

SIDE B:
West India Company – Ave Maria (Extended Version) 7:30
Featuring – Vince Clarke
Producer – Pandit Dinesh, Stephen Luscombe
Written-By – Asha Bhosle, John Sutton Talbot, Pandit Dinesh, Stephen Luscombe

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

Year Single Chart Position
1985 Lose Your Love U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #2

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Sire – 0-20412
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Maxi-Single, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Artwork By – Steel / Assorted Images

NOTES:
‘Ave Maria’ by West India Company features Vince Clarke as guest musician on pyrotechnics

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EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Wang Chung – Everybody Have Fun Tonight (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986

A. Front

Happy New Years Eve!

“Everybody Have Fun Tonight” is a song by Wang Chung from their album Mosaic. It was released as a single in 1986, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, behind “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles.

After their breakup in 1991, Wang Chung reunited in 2005 to perform this song on the television show Hit Me Baby One More Time.

The song is featured on numerous 1980s compilation albums and still receives some radio airplay across the United States.

It has appeared in the “#2s” episode of VH1 Classic’s One Hit Wonders series, even though the band had one more top 10 single, “Let’s Go”, in April 1987.

SIDE A:
Everybody Have Fun Tonight (12 Inches Of Fun) 6:45
Engineer [Remix Assistant] – Scott Mabuchi
Engineer [Remix] – Michael Hutchinson
Remix – Jellybean*

Everybody Have Fun Tonight (Edit) 4:13

SIDE B:
Everybody Dub Tonight 6:02
Remix – Jellybean*

Fun Tonight: The Early Years 4:12
Producer – Wang Chung

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

Year Single Chart Position
1986 Everybody Have Fun Tonight U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #2
1986 Everybody Have Fun Tonight U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks #25
1986 Everybody Have Fun Tonight U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #4
1986 Everybody Have Fun Tonight U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single’s sales #4

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Geffen Records – 0-20551
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop
Credits: Design – Lynn Robb
Mixed By – Brian Malouf (tracks: A1 to B1)
Producer, Arranged By – Peter Wolf (3) (tracks: A1 to B1)
Recorded By – Brian Malouf (tracks: A1 to B1), Peter Müller* (tracks: A1 to B1)
Written-By – Peter Wolf (3) (tracks: A1 to B1), Wang Chung

NOTES:
Tracks A1 & B1 remixed for Jellybean Productions, Inc.
Tracks A1 & B1 remixed at Right Track Recording.
Track B2 recorded at Hampstead West.
Original version appears on the Wang Chung album “MOSAIC”

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B. Back

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi