Tag: US

June 25, 2021

Madonna – Into The Groove/Everybody (US 12″ Promo)

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Originally posted February 4, 2012

“Into the Groove” is a song by American singer Madonna from the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan originally released in 1984.

In 1987 The song was remixed by Shep Pettibone for Madonna’s remix compilation You Can Dance. In the United States, a promotional 12″ single was issued containing exclusive unmixed versions without the inclusion of the fade in and outs that are present on the album.

The 12″ also includes a remix of Madonna’s debut single”Everybody” remixed by Bruce Forest, and Frank Heller with additional keyboards by David Cole of C + C Music Factory. This version is also taken from the You Can Dance remix compilation and is exclusive to this 12″ promo.

** Also of note at the end of both versions of “Into The Groove” during the fade ot there is a bump sound this is not a flaw I have two copies of this 12″ and this is present in both copies. This is also present in the promo CD which contains the single edits of the songs.

SIDE A:
Into The Groove (Extended Remix) 8:35
Into The Groove (Dub) 6:22

SIDE B:
Everybody (Extended Remix) 7:06
Keyboards – David Cole
Producer – Mark Kamins
Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Bruce Forest, Frank Heller

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Sire – Sire ‎– PRO-A-2906, Sire ‎– PRO-A-1-2906, Sire ‎– PRO-A-2-2906
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Promo, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Dance-pop

CREDITS:
Edited By – The Latin Rascals (tracks: A1, A2)
Edited By, Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Shep Pettibone (tracks: A1, A2)
Engineer [Remix] – Andy Wallace (tracks: A1, A2)
Lacquer Cut By [Runout Etching ❀], Lacquer Cut By [Runout Etching ⁀⁀ ⁀⁀] – Brian Gardner
Producer – Madonna (tracks: A1, A2), Stephen Bray (tracks: A1, A2)
Written-By – Madonna, Stephen Bray (tracks: A1, A2)

NOTES:
PROMOTIONAL COPY.
NOT FOR SALE.
A1 & B: From the Sire album YOU CAN DANCE
A2: From the Sire CD/Cassette YOU CAN DANCE

US Promo 12″ issued with picture sleeve exclusive to this release (and back of sleeve is completely white). Tracks A1 & B are exclusive to this release. They are complete and unmixed with no fades at the beginning or end of the tracks.

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VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
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THE GEAR:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge/Stylus: Ortofon 2M Black
Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
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

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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June 17, 2021

Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin (US 12″)

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Originally posted March 20, 2013

“It’s a Sin” is a song by English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys from their second studio album, Actually (1987). Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, the song was released on 15 June 1987 as the album’s lead single. It became the duo’s second number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks atop the chart. Additionally, the single topped the charts in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, while reaching number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100.

A demo of the track was first cut in 1984 with Bobby Orlando, and the song’s form in the demo remained intact to the final version, although the released production is far more dramatic.

The dramatic, overblown production style of the song, loaded with synthesizers, orchestra hits, and bookended by a non sequitur sample of a NASA countdown, has come to exemplify the most theatrical extremes of the Pet Shop Boys’ musical style.[3] It remains a concert staple, being one of only two songs (alongside “West End Girls”) that has been played during every Pet Shop Boys tour.

The band stated at the time that they had been keen for Stock Aitken Waterman to produce the song, as they were huge fans. Neil has stated that Pete Waterman hated the demo so they turned instead to SAW’s remix engineer Phil Harding to remix the song for the US release (which went uncredited on the sleeve). They would work with him again on “I’m Not Scared”, the single they wrote for the Patsy Kensit band Eighth Wonder and remixes of “Always on My Mind”.

Bursting with melodramatic orchestral stabs, a NASA countdown, and huge-sounding, sweeping synths “It’s A Sin” secured itself in Gay culture permanently becoming a Pride Anthem.

SIDE A:
It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix) 9:16
Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards
Remix – Pet Shop Boys , Phil Harding

It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Dub Mix) 4:22
Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards
Remix – Pet Shop Boys , Phil Harding

SIDE B:
It’s A Sin (Remix) 8:16
Remix – Ian Levine

It’s A Sin (Disco Mix) 7:42
Mixed By [Additional] – Stephen Hague

You Know Where You Went Wrong 5:51
Producer – Pet Shop Boys, Shep Pettibone

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Cover: Near Mint

CHARTS:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1987	It’s A Sin	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#9
1987	It’s A Sin	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#3

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI America ‎– V-19256
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: June 15, 1987
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop, Hi NRG, Freestyle

CREDITS:
Mastered By – Herbie Jr. :^)*
Producer [Additional] – Stephen Hague (tracks: A1, A2, B2)
Producer, Engineer – Julian Mendelsohn (tracks: A1 to B2)
Written-By – Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe*

NOTES:
Packaged in 3-track sleeve for 1st 12″, stickered “4 special mixes of ‘It’s a Sin’”.

A1 and B1 “remixed in the U.K. for the USA”
A1 AKA “Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix”
A2 as “Phil Harding Latin Dub Mix”

Sleeve mistakenly lists:
(Album version can be heard on the forthcoming album, “Jealousy”-ELT-46972)

Helena Springs courtesy of Arista Records.

(Album version can be heard on the LP, “Actually”-ELJ-46972)

“You Know Where You Went Wrong” (Not Available on the album “Actually”-ELJ-46972)

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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June 16, 2021

Kelly Marie – Feels Like I’m In Love (US 12″)

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“Feels Like I’m In Love” is a song written and originally recorded by Ray Dorset with his band Mungo Jerry in 1977.

In 1979, Scottish singer Kelly Marie recorded the song for Pye Records. The song was a sleeper hit on the Scottish club scene before breaking through nationally in the summer of 1980, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart in September. The following year, aided by a number of remixes the song became a club hit in the US, reaching number ten on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Re-released on the Calibre record label with a new B-side “New York at Night”, it followed a rare breed of record labels who gained a chart-topping success after their debut release.

Charged with cheeky, campy horn flourishes, the song oozes a kind of carefree, shoulder-shimmying joy that won Kelly Marie a sizeable gay following becoming an instant gay anthem.

SIDE A:
Feels Like I’m In Love 6:21
Written-By – R. Dorset*

SIDE AA:
New York At Night 5:05
Rap – Bobby ‘DJ’ Guttadaro, Lance Wise
Written-By – P. Yellowstone, S. Voice*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1980	Feels Like I’m In Love	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#10

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Coast To Coast (2) ‎– 4Z8 02023, Roadshow ‎– 4Z8 02023
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Disco

CREDITS:
Producer – Peter Yellowstone
Remix – Bobby ‘DJ’ Guttadaro*

NOTES:
Manufactured and distributed by CBS Records/CBS Inc.

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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June 11, 2021

Various – Hot Rod’s “Dancing On The Wild Side” (Medley) (US 12″)

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What a fun way to end a week of New Wave obscure records than with an obscure New wave Medley. Clocking in at just over twenty minutes this Hot Tracks Medley is packed with some known but mostly forgotten gems. Like most all of the Hot Tracks medley’s, this one is cut and sliced into pure perfection.

Mark ‘Hot Rod’ Trollan, DJ’ed at Medusa’s in Chicago in the 1980s and produced and remixed various singles in the mid-eighties.

He passed away on December 19, 1986, after contracting the AIDS virus.

SIDE A:
Various – Hot Rod’s “Dancing On The Wild Side” (Medley) 20:27
Mixed By – Mark “Hot Rod” Trollan

122-134 BPM

Book Of Love — Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
Foetus-Art-Terrorism — Calamity Crush
Fatima — Hassan
Bananarama — Do Not Disturb
Ministry — Over The Shoulder
Ministry — All Day
Quando Quando — Love Tempo
The Art Of Noise featuring Duane Eddy — Peter Gunn
Executive Slacks — In And Out
Portion Control — The Great Divide
Alexander Robotnick — Don’t Ask Me Why
Siouxsie And The Banshees — Cities In Dust
Peter Murphy — Final Solution
Debora Iyall — Strange Language
Pete Shelley — On Your Own
Love And Rockets — Inside The Outside
Danny Alias — Civil Defense
George Kranz — Trommeltanz (Din Daa Daa)
The Bridge — Love Dance
Secession — Touch
Frankie Goes To Hollywood — Two Tribes
Funkmeister — War Dance
David Van Tieghem — These Things Happen
Depeche Mode — Master And Servant
Clan Of Xymox — Stranger
Chakk — Imagination (Who Needs A Better Life)
TDA/Test Department — The Faces Of Freedom
Russia Heat — Tell Me Your Name
Severed Heads — Dead Eyes Opened
Lawrence Welk — Live At Lake Tahde
ABC — From A To Z
Severed Heads — Dead Eyes Opened
Days Of 29 — Destination D-Day

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Hot Tracks ‎– SA5-6
Series: Hot Tracks Series – 5-6
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Wave, Alternative

CREDITS:
Producer – Cameron Paul

NOTES:
DJ USE ONLY

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Password: burningtheground

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