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Fun Boy Three (album)

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Genre
  
Ska, pop

Length
  
32:53

Released
  
March 1982 Aug 10, 1999 (re-release)

Studio
  
The Bridge Studios, London

Label
  
Chrysalis EMI (re-release)

Producer
  
Dave Jordan Fun Boy Three

The Fun Boy Three is the debut album by The Fun Boy Three, a band consisting of three ex-members of the UK ska band The Specials: Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding. It was released in 1982 and was re-released in 1999 as Fame. Several songs on the album feature backing vocals by the female pop trio Bananarama. Three singles were released from the album: "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)", "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", and a remix (with overdubbed horns) of "The Telephone Always Rings".

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Golding/Hall/Staple except where noted.

  1. "Sanctuary" (with Bananarama)
  2. "Way on Down"
  3. "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)"
  4. "Life in General (Lewe in Algemeen)"
  5. "Faith, Hope & Charity"
  6. "Funrama 2" (with Bananarama)
  7. "Best of Luck Mate"
  8. "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" (with Bananarama) (Melvin "Sy" Oliver, James "Trummy" Young)
  9. "The Telephone Always Rings"
  10. "I Don't Believe It"
  11. "Alone" (with Bananarama)

Personnel

  • Terry Hall – vocals
  • Neville Staple – percussion, vocals
  • Lynval Golding – guitar, vocals
  • Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey (as Bananarama) – backing vocals

    • References

    Fun Boy Three (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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