Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Original Bobby Orlando extended mix)
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Original Bobby Orlando extended mix)
Label: Epic Records
Catalogue: TA 4292
Format: Vinyl 12 inch (45 rpm)
Country: UK
Released: 09 April 1984
Genre: Pop
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Artwork by XL Design (sleeve) Mark Farrow @ 3a & Pet Shop Boys XL Design (except US & CAN sleeves)
Photography: Eric Watson
Producer: Bobby Orlando
Recorded by Steve Jerome
(P) 1984 CBS Records
MCPS/BIEM
Made in England
LC 0199
Produced for Nunzio Brochero Prod. Ltd.
Recorded at Unique Studios, NYC (USA)
West End Girls tracklisting:
TA 4292 A
West End Girls (extended mix) 7:50
Written by Tennant and Lowe.
Publisher: Cage Music Ltd.
TA 4292 B
Pet Shop Boys 5:10
Written by Orlando, Tennant and Lowe.
Producer: Bobby Orlando and Pet Shop Boys for Nunzio Brocheno Prod. Ltd.
Publisher: Orbob Music / Cage Music Ltd.
1983 original sound recording made by CBS Records.
Produced by Bobby Orlando
Mixed by Bobby "O"
Recorded in Orland Records NY
Bobcat
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1.984 - West End Girls and the beginning of a successful career.
On 9th of April in 1,984 the first version of ‘West End Girls’ is released
It was, in fact, Bobby who played most of the instruments live in the studio.
‘Chris was not really a very good keyboard player,’ says Bobby.
An accomplished musician himself, Bobby wanted to lay out the material quickly, so he took the reins.
‘I played everything on ‘West End Girls’, including the jazz riffs at the end.
Chris played one chord and the bass line. The choir sound we resampled off other records we had done.’
The B-side of the single was ‘One More Chance’.
Says Neil, ‘We learned a lot. Bobby works fantastically quickly - within an hour and a half we had recorded the basic tracks for three songs.’
Bobby O was thrilled with the way the production of West End Girls’ turned out. The idea was for it to be a rap record done in a British accent.
The gimmicky Britishness was something that Bobby could play on.
Before releasing and promoting the single on his own label, Bobby played it around for some of the majors. Every one turned it down, including EMI America who turned it down cold, saying that Neil sounded like Al Stewart. At this point, Bobby had become extremely fanatical about breaking the Pet Shop Boys. The more people turned the single down, the more he was convinced it was going to be huge.
‘If the majors hated it, then it had to be good,’ he noted. Although being basically disco, Bobby did not want to promote it as such, but as underground New Wave, as ‘new music’, which at the time meant nothing. As part of the promotion campaign, the company ran a free colour television giveaway. The question was, could anyone guess the name of the singer of the Pet Shop Boys? Sure enough, somebody in California won a free colour television. The record was released in April 1984 on Bobcat, who also licensed it to Epic Records in the UK in a one off deal. Bobby had been dealing through Gordon Charlton and his secretary Lorraine Trent at the company, both strong supporters of the Boys. Out eight weeks in America, it was doing well, picking up a nice buzz, particularly in the clubs in Los Angeles and San Francisco...
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I can never get enough of Bobby O’s version! I’m not being sarcastic-- I love (and miss) the 80’s clap-track! 👏
This is the version I remember dancing to in 85/86!
@johnstjohn6658
13 күн бұрын
Early '84
The first and only version
Bobby Orlando was one of the most underestimtated artist of it's time
Visited London last month with this song in my ear... magical 🙂
Post punk, Punk, Goths, New romantic. Dark Wave, New wave. I l❤ved the video.
i love that first version!!! psb forever
First version❤
Bobby "O" the best❤
This is a Bobby Orlando beat!
I still have a copy of this somewhere. It is very different to the version that charted the following year. I remember hearing this version played in the clubs, but didn't know who the PSB's were until they exploded in 1985. I just thought this was an obscure club track, which it was I suppose. Certainly not mainstream.
A fashion girl gave this version to me on tape, 1984 I guess? I still remember her room, wildly colored, with heaps of textile. It was winter with lots of snow. I parked my car in a low part of that street. Very hard to get out of that hole...wheels slipped endless. That neighborhood has been demolished since decades.
@franlopez2876
11 ай бұрын
Concretamente 9 abril 1984 ( primera versión)
Wow fantastic version 🎉❤❤❤❤
Nice trip !
This is nice . . great memories . .
Brilliant ..uk
I sang West End Girls at a karaoke on Sunday night.
Danke, für das Teilen habe diese Version schon lange gesucht!
Cuando Pet shop Boys en sus inicios con un gran productor de la musica High Energy
@joseromero-pc4qj
11 ай бұрын
Si, me encanto esta versión con Bobby Orlando
Awesome 😀 the first two minutes of the video are great with all the new wave outfits
@lazybelphegore6748
8 ай бұрын
Are those the Blitz kids?
@johnstjohn6658
13 күн бұрын
Probably in England but it could be Melrose in LA from that time period.
Legendäre 😎
It is REALLY LUCK to live in places where there are no interpersonal misunderstandings and where we CAN make good music.
@crystalidentity
Жыл бұрын
Is there such thing as a place where there are no interpersonal misunderstandings?? DAMN, I'd love to know where that might be!! 😅 But hey, at least I can always hear people make good music on KZread, no matter where I am... 🎶
@tomislavpotocar91
Жыл бұрын
@@crystalidentity RIGHT NOW, you ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Better KZread than nothing. Thank you for your comment.
We need more 🐄 🔔!! 🎶🎤❤️ #80s
All your stopping, stalling and starting Who do you think you are, Joe Stalin? MAN WHAT A NICE FRAGMENT
Cosey fan tutte
Agradezco el mix PSB 👌y muy interesante las imagenes 👋✌️
Es sin lugar a dudas una de las mejores versiones porque mantiene la esencia del original y las voces, ya que últimamente salen remixes que desnaturalizan la propia canción, un diez para el remezclador 🧡🧡🧡🧡✌️✌️✌️✌️👌👌👌👌
@user-xd7kv7tw8m
9 ай бұрын
Vincent. Yes true I like this version
❤️❤️❤️
SHAKERS..Vancouver West Georgia Street..where East End Boys met West End(Side) girls👩🦽🥂
How cool
Not ONE single overweight person in this video! What on earth happened to us???
@Lester-Bangs
6 ай бұрын
Somewhere around 2010 the world started down a path that brings us to this present hell-hole we call life. Looking back to what we once had is all we can hope for now. Things are too far gone now to be changed.
@67ghostofwar
5 ай бұрын
Fastfood
@Fnord23Gnosis
5 ай бұрын
Seed oils.
@darien_g9454
3 ай бұрын
Suppressed anger
@RoboSlaughter
2 ай бұрын
This is Soho, most of the skinny fashionable people are socialites and club kids starving themselves and taking lots of drugs, the average person in any period of history is not nearly this glamorous!
Excelente
Play loud in the car...
Check out the article up on the BBC News site today titled "How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record shop" :)
@senorxrey6429
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad I saw this today and not 3 years from now! Thanks for the incredible breaking news story! I can only imagine what that letter with the original 12" would have sold for anywhere else. David Prior is a very lucky journalist to have found that and the store owner didn't try to price gouge him
blitz
TR-808 sound
this needs more cowbell
@amolitori
Жыл бұрын
Cowbell on 16th notes
Has a Harold F style sound also...
I like this version for a bit of whimsy and fashion sense.
Carlos, is this some original video dated 1984 and showing London‘s West End? Or did you add a video of the 80s to the song? Best version of West End Girls, I‘ve heard it at Club Pacha, Ibiza in 1984 and still love it.
Who TF downvoted this?
@xtractstudios
8 ай бұрын
Clearly some one that doesnt have a clue about Mr "O" was and appreciate the kind of Genre he created that still keeps getting played today but in other forms.
Show Man!!!!!
are those shots of london's west end (girls)? 1984?
How about that an Androgenous 80s London 😅 lots of makeup 💄 wow😮
Cool verson of a classic song, also loved the video of people just being people, looks like mid 70's?
@richardbirmingham5585
10 ай бұрын
Its definitely not 1985
alo amigo sou novato no seu canal
I think this the very first extended version!!! Am I wrong?
@villabittube
2 жыл бұрын
Is the extended version, no edit. Original mix
@ricklowe2994
2 жыл бұрын
@@villabittube Is the video original or it was added for the song?
@villabittube
2 жыл бұрын
Add
Thinking DENNIS NILSEN..... Su coto de caza? .....
😂
Could have been a preview of the HUNGER to come in latter years, when we had to hit the food Banks......we did it in Arizona....no laughing matter......that's for sure
Meglio quella dell'album please. È più completa, cantata meglio. Al livello sonoro è più professionale. Si sente che questa è più amatoriale.
Might be a little too much cowbell
@vlatkokaplanovic7804
Жыл бұрын
there is never too much cowbell :)
so much better than the lame Stephen Hague version.
Тут много панка и постпанка
What i can't stand being on the streets are couples holding hands and pushchairs😠😠😠😠
West end girls but the singer has crippling depression
@VAGCOMM
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe because He didn`t like Girls?)
@crystalidentity
Жыл бұрын
@@VAGCOMM He preferred East End boys over West End girls, but had to pretend the whole song is about the other way 'round. Poor, thing, he just ain't into the Vag(comm)! 😅
@VAGCOMM
Жыл бұрын
@@crystalidentity however, trying another pfoducer make a Pet Shop Boys more lucky with this hard choice between East End Boys or West End Girls.
Все одеты как клоуны 😅
@storozhakovgregory3032
6 ай бұрын
ну и хорошо
sounds amateurish like hell