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The Belle Stars (album)

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Released
  
January 1983

Length
  
38:53

Genre
  
Pop

Label
  
Stiff

Recorded
  
Trident Studios and Mayfair Studios, London

Producer
  
Peter Collins, Brian Tench, Pete Wingfield

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. 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. 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.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by The Belle Stars unless noted.

  1. "Sign of the Times" - 2:52
  2. "Ci Ya Ya" - 2:40
  3. "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" (Lincoln Chase) - 3:11
  4. "Indian Summer" - 3:43
  5. "Harlem Shuffle" (Earl Nelson, Bob Relf) - 3:17
  6. "The Reason" - 3:57
  7. "Iko Iko" (Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson, Sharon Jones, Jesse Thomas) - 3:00
  8. "Baby I'm Yours" - 3:36
  9. "Mockingbird" (Inez Foxx, Charlie Foxx) - 3:22
  10. "The Snake" (Oscar Brown, Jr.) - 3:16
  11. "Burning" - 3:21
  12. "Needle in a Haystack" (William "Mickey" Stevenson, Norman Whitfield) - 2:38

Band members

  • Jennie McKeown - lead vocals
  • Sarah-Jane Owen - lead and wah-wah guitar
  • Stella Barker - rhythm and acoustic guitar
  • Clare Hirst - tenor saxophone and keyboards
  • Miranda Joyce - alto saxophone
  • Lesley Shone - bass
  • Judy Parsons - drums

    • Additional musicians

  • Martin Ditcham, Graham Broad - percussion

    • Production

  • 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

    The Belle Stars (album) Wikipedia
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