Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Original Bobby Orlando extended mix)

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Original Bobby Orlando extended mix)

Label: Epic Records
Catalogue: TA 4292
Format: Vinyl 12 inch (45 rpm)

Country: UK
Released: 09 April 1984
Genre: Pop
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Artwork by XL Design (sleeve) Mark Farrow @ 3a & Pet Shop Boys XL Design (except US & CAN sleeves)
Photography: Eric Watson
Producer: Bobby Orlando
Recorded by Steve Jerome
(P) 1984 CBS Records
MCPS/BIEM
Made in England
LC 0199

Produced for Nunzio Brochero Prod. Ltd.
Recorded at Unique Studios, NYC (USA)

West End Girls tracklisting:

TA 4292 A
West End Girls (extended mix) 7:50
Written by Tennant and Lowe.
Publisher: Cage Music Ltd.

TA 4292 B
Pet Shop Boys 5:10
Written by Orlando, Tennant and Lowe.
Producer: Bobby Orlando and Pet Shop Boys for Nunzio Brocheno Prod. Ltd.
Publisher: Orbob Music / Cage Music Ltd.

1983 original sound recording made by CBS Records.
Produced by Bobby Orlando
Mixed by Bobby "O"
Recorded in Orland Records NY
Bobcat

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1.984 – West End Girls and the beginning of a successful career.
On 9th of April in 1,984 the first version of ‘West End Girls’ is released
It was, in fact, Bobby who played most of the instruments live in the studio.
‘Chris was not really a very good keyboard player,’ says Bobby.
An accomplished musician himself, Bobby wanted to lay out the material quickly, so he took the reins.
‘I played everything on ‘West End Girls’, including the jazz riffs at the end.
Chris played one chord and the bass line. The choir sound we resampled off other records we had done.’
The B-side of the single was ‘One More Chance’.
Says Neil, ‘We learned a lot. Bobby works fantastically quickly - within an hour and a half we had recorded the basic tracks for three songs.’
Bobby O was thrilled with the way the production of West End Girls’ turned out. The idea was for it to be a rap record done in a British accent.
The gimmicky Britishness was something that Bobby could play on.
Before releasing and promoting the single on his own label, Bobby played it around for some of the majors. Every one turned it down, including EMI America who turned it down cold, saying that Neil sounded like Al Stewart. At this point, Bobby had become extremely fanatical about breaking the Pet Shop Boys. The more people turned the single down, the more he was convinced it was going to be huge.
‘If the majors hated it, then it had to be good,’ he noted. Although being basically disco, Bobby did not want to promote it as such, but as underground New Wave, as ‘new music’, which at the time meant nothing. As part of the promotion campaign, the company ran a free colour television giveaway. The question was, could anyone guess the name of the singer of the Pet Shop Boys? Sure enough, somebody in California won a free colour television. The record was released in April 1984 on Bobcat, who also licensed it to Epic Records in the UK in a one off deal. Bobby had been dealing through Gordon Charlton and his secretary Lorraine Trent at the company, both strong supporters of the Boys. Out eight weeks in America, it was doing well, picking up a nice buzz, particularly in the clubs in Los Angeles and San Francisco...

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Video creado y editado por Carlos Alfredo Villa para VILLABIT Media.
Fecha: 27/07/2017

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