- Warm Leatherette (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Warm Leatherette
Type =Album
Artist =Grace Jones
Released = 1980
Recorded =
Genre =R&B , New Wave,Reggae ,Soul
Length = LP 39:04
Cassette/CD: 46:40
Label =Island Records
Producer =Chris Blackwell ,Alex Sadkin
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rjuvad1kv8w2 link]
Last album = "Muse"
1979
This album = "Warm Leatherette"
1980
Next album = "Nightclubbing "
1981"Warm Leatherette" is the fourth studio
album byGrace Jones . Released in 1980, "Warm Leatherette" was the first of three albums produced byChris Blackwell atCompass Point Studios in theBahamas . The album included covers of songs bythe Normal ,the Pretenders ,Roxy Music ,Smokey Robinson ,Tom Petty andJacques Higelin .
After the commercial success of "Nightclubbing " Island Records re-released the "Warm Leatherette" album with new artwork, replacingJean-Paul Goude 's original black-and-white studio portrait with pictures of Grace in performance taken from her groundbreaking 1981/82 tour "A One Man Show ".
Most currentCompact Disc editions include the longer or extended 12" mixes of selected tracks that originally appeared on the so-called "1+1" chrome audio cassette; side one consisting of the regular album and side two of five alternate versions.Track listing
ide A
# "
Warm Leatherette " (Daniel Miller) - 4:25 (Cassette/CD - 5:38)
# "Private Life" (Chrissie Hynde ) - 5:10 (Cassette/CD - 6:19)
# "A Rolling Stone " (Deniece Williams , Fritz Baskett, Grace Jones) - 3:30
# "Love is the Drug" (Bryan Ferry ,Andy Mackay ) - 7:15 (Cassette/CD - 8:41)ide B
# "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (
Smokey Robinson ) - 3:50 (Cassette/CD - 6:45)
# "Bullshit" (Barry Reynolds) - 5:20
# "Breakdown" (Tom Petty ) - 5:30
# "Pars" (Jacques Higelin ) - 4:05 (Cassette/CD - 4:44)Personnel
*
Wally Badarou - Keyboards
*Chris Blackwell - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
*Mikey Chung - Guitar
*Sly Dunbar - Drums
*Jean-Paul Goude - Artwork
*Grace Jones - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
* Barry Reynolds - Guitar
*Alex Sadkin - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
*Robbie Shakespeare - Guitar (Bass)
* Kendal Stubbs - Assistant Engineer
*Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - Percussioningles
"A Rolling Stone"
*UK 7" single (1980)
#"A Rolling Stone" - 3:30
#"Sinning" - 4:16*UK 7" promo (1980)
#"A Rolling Stone" - 3:30
#"Sinning" - 4:16*UK 12" single (1980) 12WIP 6591
#"A Rolling Stone" (Extended ) 5:39
#"Sinning" - 5:05"Love Is The Drug"
*US 7" single (1980)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16*FR 7" single (1980) 6010 179
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:08*GE 7" single (1980) 101.819
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16*SP 7" single (1980) 101.819
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16*CL 7" single (1980)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16*GE 12" single (1980) 600 198
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 8:40
#"Sinning" - 4:10*GE 12" single (1986)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 8:40
#"Sinning" - 4:10
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - 7" Edit) 3:42
#"Living My Life" (Paul "Groucho" Smykle 1986 7" Mix) - 3:58*UK 7" single (1986) ISG266
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - 7" Edit) - 3:47
#"Living My Life" (Paul "Groucho" Smykle 1986 7" Mix) - 3:58*UK 12" single (1986) 12ISP266/12IS266
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 6:57
#"Living My Life" (Long Version) - 5:28
#"The Apple Stretching" - 6:55*GE 12" single (1986)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 6:57
#"Living My Life" (Long Version) - 5:28
#"The Apple Stretching" - 6:55"Private Life"
*US 12" single (1980)
#"Private Life" (Long Version) - 6:19
#"She's Lost Control" (Long Version) - 8:23*NE 7" single (1980) 102.305
#"Private Life" (7" Mix) - 4:36
#"Pars" - 4:05*UK 7" single (1980) WIP 6629
#"Private Life" (7" Mix) - 4:36
#"She's Lost Control" (7" Mix) - 3:39*UK 12" single (1980) 12WIP 6629
#"Private Life" (Long Version) - 6:19
#"She's Lost Control" (Long Version) - 8:23*GE 7" single (1980) 102 261-100
#"Private Life" (7" Mix) - 4.36
#"She's Lost Control" (7" Mix) - 3:39*GE 12" single (1980) 600 261-213
#"Private Life" (Long Version) - 6:19
#"She's Lost Control" (Long Version) - 8:23*UK 7" single (1986)
#"Private Life" (1986 7" Mix) - 3:57
#"My Jamaican Guy" (1986 7" Edit) - 4:16"Pars"
*CA 7" single (1980) IS308
#"Pars" - 4:05
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25*CA 7" promo (1980)
#"Pars" - 4:05
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game"
*CL 7" single (1980)
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50
#"Pars" - 4:05*UK 7" single (1980) WIP6645
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Alternate untitled reggae version) - 3:50*UK 12" single (1980) 12WIP6645
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Long Version) - 6:45
#"Warm Leatherette" (Long Version) - 5:38*GE 12" single (1980) 600 271
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Long Version) - 6:45
#"Warm Leatherette" (Long Version) - 5:36*US 12" promo (1980) PRO-A-892
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50"Breakdown"
*US 7" promo (1980) IS49603
#"Breakdown" (Edit/Stereo) - 3:00
#"Breakdown" (Edit/Mono) - 3:00*US 7" single (1980)
#"Breakdown"
#"Pull Up To The Bumper"*US 12" promo (1980)
#"Breakdown" - 5.30
#"Warm Leatherette" - 3:10*US 12" promo (1980) PRO-A-920
#"Breakdown" - 5:30
#"Breakdown" (Edit) - 3:10
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25"Warm Leatherette"
*US 7" promo (?) IS 7-94993
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:26
#"La Vie En Rose" - 3:35*US 12" promo (1980) PRO-A-879
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25
#"Love Is The Drug" - 7:15
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50
#"Bullshit" - 5:20
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