The Belle Stars is the only studio album by the all-female band of the same name released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). The band's eponymous debut album reached number 15 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] The Belle Stars had some success with their single "Iko Iko", a cover of The Dixie Cups' 1965 hit. It charted at number 35 in June 1982 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] Seven years later the song became a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after it was featured in the movie Rain Man, where it peaked at number 14.[3]
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| Released | January 1983 | |||
| Studio | Trident Studios and Mayfair Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Pop, new wave | |||
| Length | 38:53 | |||
| Label | Stiff | |||
| Producer | Peter Collins, Brian Tench, Pete Wingfield | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Track listing
editAll tracks are written by The Belle Stars unless noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Sign of the Times" | 2:52 | |
| 2. | "Ci Ya Ya" | 2:40 | |
| 3. | "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" (Shirley Ellis cover) | Lincoln Chase | 3:11 |
| 4. | "Indian Summer" | 3:43 | |
| 5. | "Harlem Shuffle" (Bob & Earl cover) | Earl Nelson, Bob Relf | 3:17 |
| 6. | "The Reason" | 3:57 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7. | "Iko Iko" (Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters cover) | Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson, Sharon Jones, Jesse Thomas | 3:00 |
| 8. | "Baby I'm Yours" | 3:36 | |
| 9. | "Mockingbird" (Inez and Charlie Foxx cover) | Inez Foxx, Charlie Foxx | 3:22 |
| 10. | "The Snake" (Al Wilson cover) | Oscar Brown, Jr. | 3:16 |
| 11. | "Burning" | 3:21 | |
| 12. | "Needle in a Haystack" (The Velvelettes cover) | William "Mickey" Stevenson, Norman Whitfield | 2:38 |
Personnel
edit- The Belle Stars
- Jennie McKeown – lead vocals
- Sarah-Jane Owen – lead guitar, wah–wah guitar, vocals
- Stella Barker – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Clare Hirst – tenor saxophone, keyboards, vocals
- Miranda Joyce – alto saxophone, vocals
- Lesley Shone – bass, vocals
- Judy Parsons – drums, percussion, vocals
- Additional musicians
- Martin Ditcham, Graham Broad – percussion
- Technical
- Peter Collins – producer on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11
- Phil Chapman, Pete Hammond, Julian Mendelsohn, Phil Harding – engineers on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11
- Brian Tench – producer and engineer on tracks 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
- Pete Wingfield – producer on track 6
- Alvin Clark – engineer on track 6
References
edit- ^ "Belle Stars - The Belle Stars". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19 ed.). Guinness World Record. p. 53. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Withburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (6 ed.). New York City: Watson-Guptill. p. 57. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6.