I keep getting Emails from people asking me to re-upload the links and music etc. I think people are just getting to those particular pages so are not reading the reason for the dead links.
So I am putting this in place so hopefully people will read it and stop Emailing me about it.
The reason the links are dead is that my account with Media Fire has been closed with all 11,000 files lost. That is why you can not download the things and No I can not re-upload them.
Eventually I will start doing that again when I have found something suitable. In the meantime this blog will be information only blog.
Thank you all
Michaael
New Blog Forum
The 80s Music and Fame Media Forum is now open for users to chat, make new friends, leave messages for each other and leave comments on the blog sites. To access it click the link below or use the link in the side bar.
'Robert De Niro's Waiting...' is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was the second single released from their self-titled second album in 1984.
The single is one of the group's strongest performing releases, peaking at number three in the UK singles chart (the single to date stands in a three-way tie as Bananarama's highest-charting UK hit). It made a brief appearance on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-five.
An extended version of the song was available on the 12 inch single. The B-side of both 7 inch and 12 inch singles was a song called 'Push!'. Also included on the 12" single, was an unlisted track; a different version 'Link' from Bananarama.
Bananarama re-recorded 'Robert De Niro's Waiting...' with Latin instrumentation on their 2001 album Exotica.
The Duncan Gibbins-directed music video for 'Robert de Niro's Waiting...' shows Bananarama walking around dark streets, possibly followed by mafia-style clothed men. When it gets to the bridge part of the song, Sarah is shown running along, looking behind her as if being followed: her backcombed hair bounces up and down, with strands flying across her face. The video ends with Bananarama back in their apartment, when the door bell rings. Keren answers the door, only to be confronted by the man who might have been chasing them, armed with a Mafia-style violin case. As she looks nervously at him, the case falls open to reveal a sign saying "Pizza Delivery", along with three pizzas. Both the man and Keren start laughing, and right at the end, Bananarama are shown in their apartment eating the pizza and laughing.
Click the link below to download the following:
Video
Single Version
Extended Version
Short Dub
Push - B-Side
Link - Unlisted B-Side - Includes Link II - Album Version
'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' is a song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band they named "Steam".
It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970.
The original recording of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" has been released in many collections of oldies songs and re-recorded by other groups.
In February 1983, UK girl group Bananarama released the song as a single off their album Deep Sea Skiving. This version reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, but only a minor hit in the US (Billboard number 101) later that year.
In a sketch on the early 1980s comedy show, Three of a Kind, Tracey Ullman spoofed Bananarama singing 'Na Na Hey Hey' (as well as 'Shy Boy'), with the words "We are nanas".
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Extended Version Tell Tale Signs - B-Side
Steam - Original Version Steam - It's The Magic In You Girl - B-Side
'I Can't Help It' is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album Wow! and was released as its third single except in the U.S., where it was the album's second single (following 'I Heard a Rumour') and Australia, where it was the album's fourth single (after 'I Want You Back'). The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.
The song is a disco-influenced pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period
The single peaked at number twenty in the UK singles chart, number 27 on the Australian ARIA chart (where it was released in August 1988 after I Want You Back), and just missed the top-forty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. A hit in nightclubs, 'I Can't Help It' climbed to number seven on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.
This is the final Bananarama single to feature Siobhan Fahey, who announced her departure shortly after its release.
The photos on the record sleeve were taken by famous American photographer Herb Ritts. The record sleeves for 'I Can't Help It' and 'Love in the First Degree' were switched with each other for the UK and North American markets.
The song's suggestive lyrics and music video further perpetuated Bananarama's sensual visual image that the group began to incorporate with their previous album True Confessions.
The 'I Can't Help It' video featured muscle men dancing, colourful backdrops, and Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward in a milk bath filled with fruit and naked men. Siobhan Fahey, extremely pregnant at the time, also appears but was only shown on camera from the shoulders up. Music video directed by Andy Morahan.
Please click the link belwo to download the following: Video Single Version Extended Remix Hammond Excursion Version BUK Solitaire Version Esctacy - B-Side Mr Sleaze - Rare Groove Remix - 12 inch B-Side
'Do Not Disturb' is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was written and produced by the production duo of Steve Jolley and Tony Swain.
Originally released as a stand-alone single in 1985, the track was later added to Bananarama's third album 'True Confessions' which was issued by London Records a year later. 'Do Not Disturb' was released in the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan but only charted in the UK.
Bananarama did not like the song. Group member Keren Woodward later said of the 'True Confessions' album, "It is all our ideas, it is what we wanted to sound like and sing about. Except 'Do Not Disturb' which Swain and Jolley wrote and which we don't think is very good. Thats why there's eleven songs on the LP instead of ten". When released, 'Do Not Disturb' was a mid-charting single, peaking at number thirty-one.
The music video for 'Do Not Disturb' directed by Simon Milne features Bananarama in a brightly lit hotel clad in long white flowing dresses and blouses similar to the single's picture sleeve. The video also cuts frequently to a set with Bananarama dancing, and doing football tricks with superimposed circular footage. The whole video has a "round" theme, from round beds, and spas to a round frame in which each member dances within. 'Do Not Disturb' is also interesting because it demarcates between the silly contrived videos from Deep Sea Skiving, and the sophisticated and sensual videos from 'Venus' onwards. For this reason, 'Do Not Disturb' is a transitional video in style and image; the trite and silly storyline is a remnant of their predecessor videos, but the tidier and glamourous image and clothes is much more aligned towards 'Venus'.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Bananamix Version Ghost - B-side
Band Aid were a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' for the Christmas market. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Two subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts.
The original was produced by Midge Ure. The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn. The name 'Band Aid' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound. The group has formed on three occasions, each time from the most successful British and Irish pop music performers of the time, to record the same song at the same time of year.
The original 1984 Feed The World logo was based on a pencil sketch by Bob Geldof after watching a BBC television news report by Michael Buerk from famine-stricken Ethiopia. Geldof was so moved by the plight of starving children that he decided to try and raise money using his contacts in pop music. Geldof enlisted the help of Midge Ure, from the group Ultravox, to help produce a charity record.
Ure took Geldof's lyrics, and created the melody and backing track for the record. Geldof called many of the most popular British and Irish performers of the time (Kool & The Gang and Jody Watley were the only Americans present at the original recording), persuading them to give their time free. His one criterion for selection was how famous they were, in order to maximise sales of the record. He then kept an appointment to appear on a show on BBC Radio 1, with Richard Skinner, but instead of promoting the new Boomtown Rats material as planned, he announced the plan for Band Aid.
The recording studio gave Band Aid no more than 24 free hours to record and mix the record, on 25 November 1984. The recording took place between 11am and 7pm, and was filmed by director Nigel Dick to be released as the pop video though some basic tracks had been recorded the day before at Midge Ure's home studio. The first tracks to be recorded were the group / choir choruses which were filmed by the international press. The footage was rushed to newsrooms where it aired while the remainder of the recording process continued. Later drums by Phil Collins were recorded, including the memorable opening 'African Drum' beat. But in reality, the introduction of the song features a slowed down sample from a Tears for Fears' track called 'The Hurting', released in 1983.
Tony Hadley, of Spandau Ballet, was the first to record his vocal, while a section sung by Status Quo was deemed unusable, and replaced with section comprising Paul Weller, Sting, and Glenn Gregory. Paul Young has since admitted, in a documentary, that he knew his opening lines were written for David Bowie, who was not able to make the recording but made a contribution to the B-side (Bowie performed his lines at the Live Aid concert the following year). Boy George arrived last at 6pm, after Geldof woke him up by 'phone to have him flown over from New York on Concorde to record his solo part. (At the time Culture Club was in the middle of a US tour.)
The following morning, Geldof appeared on the Radio 1 breakfast show with Mike Read, to promote the record further and promise that every penny would go to the cause. This led to a stand-off with the British Government, who refused to waive the VAT on the sales of the single. Geldof made the headlines by publicly standing up to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and, sensing the strength of public feeling, the government backed down and donated the tax back to the charity. The record was released on 29 November, and went straight to No. 1 in the UK singles chart, outselling all the other records in the chart put together. It became the fastest- selling single of all time in the UK, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, selling over three million copies and becoming easily the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. It has since been surpassed by Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind 1997' (his tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales) but it is likely to keep selling in different versions for many years to come.
After Live Aid, 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was re-released in late 1985 in a set that included a special-edition 'picture disc' version, modeled after the Live Aid logo with 'Band' in place of 'Live'. An added bonus, 'One Year On' (a statement from Geldof and Ure on the telephone) was available as a b-side. 'One Year On' can also be found in transcript form in a booklet which was included in the DVD set of Live Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video.
The original Band Aid ensemble consisted of (in sleeve order):
Adam Clayton (U2) Queen Phil Collins (Genesis, solo) Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats) Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) Chris Cross (Ultravox) John Taylor (Duran Duran) Paul Young Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17) Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran) Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats) Marilyn Keren Woodward (Bananarama) Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Jody Watley (Shalamar) Bono (U2) Paul Weller (The Style Council) James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang) George Michael (Wham!) Midge Ure (Ultravox) Martyn Ware (Heaven 17) John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Roger Taylor (Duran Duran) Sarah Dallin (Bananarama) Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) Pete Briquette (The Boomtown Rats) Francis Rossi (Status Quo) Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang, whose members were the only Americans to participate) Dennis J. T. Thomas (Kool & the Gang) Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) Jon Moss (Culture Club) Sting (The Police) Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats) David Bowie Boy George (Culture Club) Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings) Stuart Adamson (Big Country) Bruce Watson (Big Country) Tony Butler (Big Country) Mark Brzezicki (Big Country)
Click the link below to download the following: Video Band Aid Story - 3 Part Documentary Single Version 12 inch Mix by Trevor Horn Standard Mix Feed The World - B-Side One Year On - Feed The World - B-side
A new version was recorded under the name of Band Aid II in 1989, produced by the popular Hit Factory team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and featuring a number of the year's most accessible artists, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Lisa Stansfield and Bros. Bananarama also appeared, making Sarah Dallin and Keren Woodward the only artists to appear on both versions (although they couldn't be heard on the first). The song again reached #1 for Christmas, raising more money and also making it the final number-one single of the 1980s and it was final song to be played on Top of the Pops in the Eighties, whom of it was the original version of the song.
This version, released in 1989 was produced by British songwriting and production team formed of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman. The only artists from the original Band Aid to be featured again on this version were Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama. This version topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, but ultimately achieved far less historical significance and status than its predecessor.
On Friday 1 December 1989, Bob Geldof called Pete Waterman to ask if he would consider producing a new version of the song featuring the big stars from that time. Waterman immediately cancelled his wedding (planned for that very day) and began calling up the artists. With just two days' notice, on Sunday 3 December, recording took place at PWL Studios in South London. Present in the studio was Bob Geldof, wife Paula Yates and six-year-old daughter, Fifi Trixiebelle, who was eager to meet Jason Donovan.
Production continued through the Monday, and by Tuesday 5 December the song was aired for the first time on London's Capital Radio. Advance sales of the record reached 500,000 and a number-one was inevitable. The song was released the following week on 11 December and spent three weeks at number one, becoming the 9th biggest selling song of the year, outselling Madonna's "Like a Prayer".
Participants The line up for the Band Aid II project consisted of (in alphabetical order):
Bananarama Big Fun Bros Cathy Dennis D Mob Jason Donovan Kevin Godley Glen Goldsmith Rolf Harris Kylie Minogue The Pasadenas Marti Pellow Chris Rea Cliff Richard Jimmy Somerville Sonia Lisa Stansfield Technotronic Wet Wet Wet
Click the link below to download the following: Video single Version
'T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)' is a song written by jazz musicians Melvin "Sy" Oliver and James "Trummy" Young. It was first recorded in 1939 by both Jimmie Lunceford and Ella Fitzgeral.
The jazz tune was transformed into a pop song with ska elements in 1982. With the title slightly altered to 'It Ain't What You Do....', it was included on Fun Boy Three's debut self-titled album, but it was not available on a Bananarama album until 1988's Greatest Hits Collection.
Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three owned a copy of Bananarama's previous single 'Aie a Mwana' and after seeing an article about the trio in The Face he decided he wanted them to sing background vocals on this song, solely based on the fact that he liked their look. "It Ain't What You Do...." became a big hit in the UK, climbing to number four in the UK singles chart. The single also made it to number 49 in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart and number 3 in the Dutch singles chart.
The success of this single also prompted Bananarama to return the favor and have Fun Boy Three sing on their next single 'Really Saying Something'.
'Cruel summer' was a number 8 hit in Britain in 1983, but wasn't an international success until it was included in the 1984 movie 'The Karate kid'. The group didn't allow the song to be included in the film's soundtrack, but it was still their first top ten hit in the USA reaching number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The music video features a take on the American TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, with a bumbling cop duo who chase the girls as they make their escape in a truck (at one point, Bananarama members throw bananas at a trailing police cruier).
Click the link below to download the following: Video 12 Inch Extended Mix 1989 Twelve Inch Version Summer Dub Single Version Exotica Version Extended Mix Hot Tracks Mix Summer Dub Swing Beat Dub Cairo - B-Side
'Love, Truth and Honesty' is a song written and recorded by Bananarama. It was the first single released to promote the group's Greatest Hits Collection in 1988. The song was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.
The video features the trio performing in front of mirrors and neon lights as a well-groomed man looks on.
It is the only Bananarama track which gives songwriting credit to new member Jacquie O'Sullivan. It was a moderate success in the UK, peaking at number twenty-three in the UK Singles Chart. It also was a top-forty hit in Australia and New Zealand. 'Love, Truth and Honesty' did not fare well in the United States, briefly appearing on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and stalling at number eighty-nine. To date, this is the last Bananarama song to enter the U.S. pop charts.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Album Version Single Version Balareacidic Mix Edit Balearacidic Mix Dance Hall Version Dance Mix Hot Power Dub Hot Power Mix Hot Power Edit Ultimix-Power Strike It Rich - B-Side
'Shy Boy' was Bananarama's first single without the Fun Boy Three (with whom they recorded 'It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it' and 'Really saying something'). It appears on their 1983 debut album Deep Sea Skiving and was released as its second single. It was written and produced by the production team of Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and marked the first in a long line of studio collaborations between them and Bananarama.
Released in summer 1982, 'Shy Boy' became the third consecutive single by Bananarama to hit the top-five, reaching number four in the UK Singles Chart. It also was a success in Australia, where it reached number two, becoming their first top 40 hit in that country. The B-Side was called 'Don't Call Us' but appeared on the album as 'Boy Trouble'.
The music video, directed by then Ultravox's Midge Ure and Chriss Cross, featured the girls giving a nerdy guy a make-over into a stud. When his new look attracts the attention of a sexy secretary, the girls get their revenge by dousing him with a bucket of water. It stars Terry Sharpe of 'The Adventures, who was Sara Dallin's boyfriend at the time.
Click the link below to download the following: Album Version Extended 12 inch Mix Hot Tracks Edge Mix Hot Tracks Mix
'Love in the First Degree' is Bananarama's 20th single and is included on their fourth studio album Wow! and was released as its second single except in the U.S., where it was the album's third single (following 'I Can't Help It'). The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.
The song is an uptempo pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period. The surreal lyrics, composed by Siobhan Fahey and built upon by SAW and Bananarama members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, describes a dream in which they find themselves being tried in court for love.
The music vdeo featured Bananarama (including a very pregnant Fahey) performing the song in a jail cell, dressed in prison uniforms, as several male dancers perform around them. The imagery plays off of Elvis Presley's 1957 movie Jailhouse Rock. As one of their final performances with Fahey, the group performed the song at the BRIT Awards with a large entourage of male dancers dressed only in black bikini briefs. The song was nominated for best British single but lost to Rick Astley's 'Never Gona Give You Up'.
'Love in the First Degree' is Bananarama's biggest-selling single in the UK. It holds a three-way tie for their highest UK Singles Chart placing (number three). The single also became a top-ten success in Australia and earned a top-twenty placing in New Zealand. In the United States the song just missed the top-forty, but was a top-ten club hit. The B-side was Mr. Sleaze in which Sara Dallin not only sang on that track but also played bass guitar like she did on Love in the First Degree.
Click the link below to download the following: Video
'He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' is a soul song written by Mowtown Records songwriters Norman Whitfield, William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Edward Holland Jr. in 1964. The song is notable in both a 1964 version by American Motown girl group The Velvelettes, and a 1982 hit version (with the title altered to "Really Saying Something") by Bananarama who recorded it and released it as the first single from their debut album Deep Sea Skiving. Providing background vocals is Fun Boy Three, a male vocal trio who had a hit with Bananarama earlier in the year with another cover, 'Tain't What You do (It's The Way That You Do It)'. The single became the second consecutive top-five hit for both Bananarama and Fun Boy Three, peaking at number five in the UK Singles Chart. It also received heavy play on the then-young MTV network in America. 'Really Saying Something' was both groups' second chart entry in Australia, peaking at number seventy-four. The B-side, 'Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares', has been issued on CD for the first time. It can be found on the 2007 UK reissue of Deep Sea Skiving as one of five bonus tracks.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Album Version Extended Mix Giresse Breakbeat mix vs. Solasso Hardino mix vs. Solasso Kenny Hayes Sunshine Funk mix Shanghai Surprise Club mix vs. Solasso Solasso Original mix vs. Solasso
'More Than Physical' is a song written and performed by Bananarama. It was one of two tracks on the group's 'True Confessions' album produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio instead of Jolley & Swain. The album version of the track is different from the single.
In order to capitalize on the number-one success of previous single 'Venus' (the other True Confessions track produced by SAW), 'More Than Physical' was given a UK garage-influenced make-over to sound similar to the dance-oriented chart-topper. The new version's music video further capitalized on Bananarama's new glamourous and sexy visual image by including several well-muscled, topless men in a montage of shots of the group members.
'More Than Physical' did not duplicate the success of 'Venus', stalling at number forty-one on the UK Singles Chart and number seventy-three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was a top-forty success in Australia, where it peaked at number twenty-eight. Its biggest success was in nightclubs, and 'More Than Physical' became a top-five hit on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play Chart.
'More Than Physical' was immortalised into 80's pop culture by being featured in the popular 1986 British film Rita, Sue and Bob Too starring Michelle Holmes and Siobban Finneran. The song is featured in the scene where the girls are babysitting for Bob and Michelle, and they dance around the living room while the video to 'More Than Physical' plays on the television.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Garage Mix Dub Scarlett - B-Side
'Cheers Then' appeared on Bananarama's debut album 'Deep Sea Skiving' and was released as the third single in December 1983. After having had three consecutive top-ten hits, 'Cheers Then' peaked at a disappointing number 45 in the UK singles chart.
Fahey said in a 1986 interview about this song, "We started taking our careers seriously after 'Cheers Then' bombed. Before then we thought all groups just brought out records and had them go to the top of the charts. It bought us down to reality a bit."
Even with its relatively low sales, the song is regarded by critics as one of Bananarama's best recordings.
The music video was a recreation of the musical film The Sound of Music. Filmed in Salzburg, the girls re-enact many of the scenes from the film, including the step-jumping scene for "Do-Re-Mi" and running in the hills.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Girl About Town - B-Side
'Venus' is a 1969 song by the Dutch band Shoking Blue which the group took to number one in the U.S. and five countries across Europe in 1970. The composition has been featured in numerous films, television shows and commercials, and covered dozens of times by artists around the world.
'Venus' had been a part of Bananarama's repertoire for several years before they actually recorded it. The band had the idea of turning the song into a dance music tune, but they met with resistance from their producers at the time, Steve Jolley and Tony Swain. Undaunted, the women brought the idea to the production trio of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, or S.A.W., who had just recently scored a global hit producing Dead or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)'. This was Bananarama's first collaboration with S.A.W.
Dallin, Fahey, and Woodward had nearly completed recording their third album, titled 'True Confessions', with Jolley and Swain, and being fans of the Dead or Alive selection, they sought out the SAW team in order to make their version of 'Venus' sound like 'You Spin Me Round'. Ironically, Stock, Aitken and Waterman also resisted the idea because they believed that 'Venus' would not make a good dance record.
After persistence by the women, SAW relented, and the result was a worldwide smash. Bananarama's 'Venus' went to number one in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mexico and South Africa. It hit number two in Germany and Hong Kong and was a top ten success in Italy, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Venezuela, Norway, Prtugal and Spain. The single made it to number 8 in the UK Singles Chart. It also went to number one for two weeks on the U.S Dance chart.
The music video for the song received extensive play on MTV and video channels across the world, and presented Bananarama in various costumes, including a she-devil, a French temptress, a vampiress, and several Grecian goddesses. In one sequence of the video, The Birth Of Venus, the painting by Sandro Botticelli, was reenacted. The video marked a pivotal shift towards a more glamourous and sexual image for the girls that contrasted with the tomboyish style in their earlier work.
The collaboration on 'Venus' led Bananarama and SAW to work together on the group's follow-up album Wow! the following year. Bananarama has since re-recorded the track for their 2001 album Exotica and it was later remixed by Marc Almond, with re-recorded vocals, and included on their 2005 album Drama.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Video Mix 12 Hellfire mix Hellfire Dub Extended Club Mix Greatest Remix Love To Infinity's Love Eruption Mix Marc Almond Hi NRG Showgirls mix Soul Revenger Original Club Mix Venus (Fire & Brimstone Mix) Venus (from Exotica) White Train - B-Side
'I Heard a Rumour' is the 19th single by Bananarama and was featured on their Wow! album. It was also featured in the film Disorderlies (starring The Fat Boys) and included on its soundtrack.
The music video is an expansion on the dress-up theme of Bananarama's 'Venus'. The group are seen emulating various film stars, projected on screens behind them, by dressing up in various costumes, such as a cowgirl or Carmen Miranda. Bananarama's trademark silliness is interspersed throughout. At one point the group, dressed in French can-can dresses, bend over to 'moon' the camera and expose the letters W-O-W (a reference to their album title) on their rears. Bloopers are also kept in and intercut.
'I Heard a Rumour' became one of Bananarama's biggest singles, hitting number 14 in the UK Singles Chart, climbing to number 4 in the U.S., number 2 in Canada and number 8 in New Zealand. It was also a hit in nightclubs, prompting a top-five placing on the U.S. Hot DanceClub Play chart.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Album Version Clean Cut Boy - Party Size Corporation dub Corporation of Bananarama Edit Corporation of Bananarama Mix Dub Mix Exotica Version Horoscope Dub Horoscope Mix Hot Tracks In House Hot Tracks In Miami Hot Tracks Mix House Mix Miami Mix Miami Radio Edit Miami Remix PWL Extended Horoscope Mix
'A Trick Of The Night' is a balled recorded by Bananarama. There are basically two versions of the 1986 single, one is produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and released as the final single from Bananarama's album True Confessions, the other is produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman who remixed the song slightly for its single version, adding extra synthesizer lines and vocal harmony layering giving it a more "upbeat" remix by Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) production trio, at the request of London Records.
'A Trick of the Night' was a top-forty hit in the UK, peaking at number thirty-two in the UK Singles Chart (the SAW-remixed version received the most airplay in the UK), while the ballad version stalled at number seventy-six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The single made a very brief appearance on the Australian singles chart, where it peaked at number ninety-nine.
The latter release signalled a change in direction for the group: in 1987 they would release their next album, fully produced by the trio (SAW) that was responsible for Kylie Minogue, Mel & Kim and Rick Astley's phenomenal success in that year.
The lyric of the song is about someone who has gone to seek his fortune in the big city and ended up a rentboy. The 12" single featured a remix version of both versions of the song, plus the B-side track 'Set on you', which has all the trademarks of a Stock/Aitken/Waterman remix written all over it.
Click the link to download the following: Video Tricky Mix Number One Mix Set On You - B-Side
'Robert De Niro's Waiting...' is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was the second single released from their self-titled second album in 1984.
Posts
