BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984
R E Q U E S T
“Better Be Good to Me” is a hit single from Tina Turner’s solo album, Private Dancer. The song had originally been released in 1981 by Spider, a band from New York City with co-writer Holly Knight as a member. The Turner version was successful in the United States on the Hot 100 and the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart. It peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the US R&B/Hip-hop chart. At the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985, this song won Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, one of four Grammys won by Turner in that ceremony.
The song was featured in the tenth episode of Miami Vice and was included on the first volume of the Miami Vice soundtrack.
SIDE A:
Better Be Good To Me (Extended Version) 7:42
Producer – Rupert Hine
SIDE B:
When I Was Young 3:10
Producer – John Carter
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
CHARTS:
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Better Be Good To Me | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | #5 |
| 1984 | Better Be Good To Me | U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | #6 |
| 1984 | Better Be Good To Me | U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play | #16 |
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-8609
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Pop Rock
NOTES:
Recorded In England
From the LP “PRIVATE DANCER”
Find The 12″ On DISCOGS
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
An episode of Miami Vice got me here, and it seems the extended version is still vinyl only. Thanks a lot!!!
I’m a li’l slow on the draw with this one – only just now realized that this original vinyl has the extra 40-ish seconds that they chopped off the CD (re)issue! Thank you for sharing it, Paul, and in such excellent sound!
This is excellent, Paul. Thank you so much. You rock!
Thanks! The Private Dancer album was never off the record player in our house when we were growing up – my dad loved it!
I just scream whenever you have a Tina Turner 12″ single featured. ~ chwee
Excellent! Thanks 🙂
Hi Paul,
You have posted a lot of other Tina Turner 12″. Now a new one 🙂 THANKS!!!!!!
Not my fave extended version .. the WLGTDWI was a better extended version than this one. I just wasn’t feeling this song/album at all at the time either..even the Private Dancer extended version on the remaster cd does not indicate ‘extended version’ on the liner notes but it is. They bounced back with the ICSTR extended version and that one is my fave from the album. Tinas all time BEST extended version is Steamy Windows. (Im a ‘2 extended versions’ only fan)
Great post!!
Thank you Doug 🙂
Again such a great post! It would be very nice (to say the least) having all Tina Turner 12 inches compiled on this blog sometime. But we are almost there, aren’t we? Just a couple more to go…
Thanks Paul, I like this one.
You’re welcome Stefano 🙂
Wow! Thank you so much Paul! I never tired from Tina, I love her music and the album “Private Dancer”. Our TV-news show Tina and talk about her upcoming wedding!!.. 🙂
You’re welcome Spring. I didn’t know she was having a wedding 🙂
lol. It was not happened yet. Now all in preparation. The date of the wedding has not yet disclosed. The husband of 73-year-old star will be the 54-year-old German music producer Erwin Bach. They have been together for many years (27!), but the marriage was not registered. Tina Turner recently received Swiss citizenship. Wedding preparation in Kusnacht, not far from Zurich. Singer has established a dress code for the guests – they will come in white suits. 🙂
lol very intersting. Thanks for the info Spring 🙂
Thank you for this. It is wonderful to have this, as the “extended version” included on the remastered Private Dancer album is a fade lasting about 7:03. Does anyone know why the fade even exists? There would have been room on the CD for those extra 40 seconds. This song is the first extended version of a pop song I had ever heard, back in 1985.
Why does the fade version exist? Because the people who remaster these things for CD are idiots, mostly. When Mike Oldfield’s “Incantations” was first released on CD, they cut off the first several minutes of what had been side 3 on the original double-LP to “make it fit”, even though the entire album was only 73 minutes long and would easily have fit into the original 74:33 running time of a standard CD.
I also noticed that the 7:03 version is also on the Japaneses “Private Dance Mixes” mini album. I think that maybe they just used that version for the remaster because they were too lazy to dig up the original master of the 12″. Not evensure why Japan used that version either.
Odd, I have the Australian/New Zealand version of Private Dance Mixes and it has the full-length version.
I’ll have to check my Japanese 12″ of Private Dance Mixes to make sure. But according to Discogs it’s 7:03 could be incorrect though.
According to discogs.com, the Australian CD of Private Dance Mixes contains the fade version. Is that not accurate?
http://www.discogs.com/Tina-Turner-Private-Dance-Mixes/release/1591257
not sure if it’s accurate the images don’t show track times on the CD or sleeve. I only have the Japanese vinyl version. I’ll check it later.
Discogs is incorrect. The track duration on my CD is 7:48. I’d correct Discogs but I can’t remember my credentials at the moment.
Christian are all of the other times correct on the CD? If si I will correct it on Discogs.
I corrected Discogs.
Sorry for the belated reply, Paul. Thanks for fixing that. Yes, the other times are correct.
Yeh so do I. It clocks in at 7:48 🙂