Doot Doot

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Released 1983 Producer Freur John Hudson Release date 1983 Genres Synth-pop, New wave		Length 39:41 Artist Freur Label CBS Records International

Doot-Doot (1983) Get Us out of Here (1986) Similar Get Us out of Here, Underneath the Radar, Oblivion with Bells, A Hundred Days Off, Beaucoup Fish

Doot-Doot is the debut studio album by Freur and was released in 1983. The cassette version of the album included four extra tracks. The lead single, Doot-Doot, charted at 59 on the UK Singles Chart.

CD release

The album was unavailable on CD until the 1993 reissue by Oglio Records in the United States. The album has since been reissued twice in the United Kingdom, in 2000 by Columbia Records and subsequently in 2009 by Cherry Red Records as Get Us out of Here/Doot-Doot – which includes both Freur albums on one CD.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Karl Hyde, Rick Smith and Alfie Thomas.

2009 – Cherry Red Records CD: CDM RED 419*

^* Tracks 1–10 taken from the album Get Us out of Here.

Additional musicians

Andy Sheppard – soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone on "Runaway"

Pino Palladino – fretless bass and Chapman Stick on "Theme from the Film of the Same Name"

Production

Freur and John Hudson – producer

Freur and Alex Burak – producer "Doot-Doot"

Freur – producer "Hold Me Mother"

John Hudson – engineer

Pat Stapley and John Hudson – engineer "Runaway"

John Hudson and John Etchells – engineer "Tender Surrender" and "Steam Machine"

Simon Smart and John Hudson – engineer "Matters of the Heart"

John Hudson and Rob Parr – engineer "Hold Me Mother"

Pete Suthers – electronic research development

Recorded at Point Studios, Ridge Farm, Jam, Abbey Road and Mayfair

Mixed at Mayfair

Brian Griffin – front cover/inner sleeve photographs

Simon Fowler – group photograph

Songs

1Doot-Doot
2Runaway
3Riders in the Night

References

Doot-Doot Wikipedia

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