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The EP contains six mixes, plus the original single version. "Beautiful" is a thumping dance mix of the song, with entirely new vocals (but same lyrics) recorded. All the songs are almost like a dance mix, in that they are sequenced to sound like one long suite of songs, but can be played separately without confusion.
It is the soundtrack to the science fiction film Flash Gordon and features lyrics on only two tracks. "Flash's Theme" was the only single to be released from the album, under the title "Flash". The album reached number 10 on the UK charts and number 23 in the US. [2]
The song was rejected by the Shirelles, the premier girl group of the early 1960s, [3] and was first recorded in Los Angeles by Merry Clayton as her first credited single. . Clayton had previously provided an uncredited female vocal to the hit "You're the Reason I'm Living" recorded by Bobby Darin as his debut on Capitol Records, and Darin had subsequently arranged for Clayton herself to be ...
Betty Jean Everett (November 23, 1939 – August 19, 2001) [1] [2] was an American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)", and her duet "Let It Be Me" with Jerry Butler.
"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" is an R&B ballad [3] [4] written in the key of C-sharp major. [7] [inconsistent] The song is set in common time with a tempo of 69 beats per minute. [7]It has the sequence of F (add9) –C/E–Dm 7 –C as its chord progression throughout the track, and Houston's vocals span an octave and a perfect fifth, from G 3 to D 5. [7]
The song was issued as a single in March 1978 with "God Knows", a track from Boone's Midstream album, as its flip side. Peter Noone, the co-writer of "God Knows", has alleged "['God Knows'] was originally intended to be the A-side. But the record company chickened out and went with [the] cover of 'Baby I'm Yours' instead."
The Betty Everett version was released in the summer of 1964 as the follow-up to her top ten song "The Shoop Shoop Song".Robert Pruter in his book Chicago Soul describes "I Can't Hear You" as a "surprisingly weak [song] for Goffin-King that did not give the Vee Jay [Records] staff [musicians] much to work with" and dismisses Everett's single with its number 39 R&B chart (as reported in Cash ...
The song is an up-tempo rock song. Guitarist Bernard Butler has said that its musical inspiration was " The Shoop Shoop Song ", famously remade by Cher for the 1990 film Mermaids . The guitar solo, according to Butler was inspired by the Kinks ' " You Really Got Me ". [ 4 ]