Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights b/w Kite (1978) - single

"Wuthering Heights" is a song by Kate Bush, released as her debut single in January 1978.
It became a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart, and stayed at the position for four weeks.
The song is Bush's biggest hit to date, and appears on her 1978 debut album, The Kick Inside. The B-side of the single was another song by Bush, named "Kite" – hence the kite imagery on the record sleeve.
"Wuthering Heights" came 32nd in Q magazine's Top 100 Singles of All Time as voted by readers. It is No. 5 on Pitchfork's "Top 200 Tracks of the 1970s".

The guitar solo is played by Ian Bairnson, best known for his work with Alan Parsons. It is placed rather unobtrusively in the mix, and later engineer Jon Kelly would regret not making the solo a little louder in the mix.

Written by Bush when she was 18, the song is based on the novel of the same name. Bush was inspired to write the song by the last ten minutes of a 1967 BBC mini-series based on Wuthering Heights. She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday (30 July) with Emily Brontë. Bush reportedly wrote the song for her album, The Kick Inside, within the space of just a few hours late at night.

Lyrically, "Wuthering Heights" uses several quotations from Catherine Earnshaw, most notably in the chorus – "Let me in! I'm so cold!" – as well as in the verses, with Catherine's confession to her servant of "bad dreams in the night". It is sung from Catherine's point of view, as she pleads at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in.
This romantic scene takes a melancholic turn if one has read Chapter 3 of the original book, as Catherine is in fact a ghost, calling lovingly to Heathcliff from beyond the grave. Catherine's "icy" ghost grabs the hand of the narrator, Mr Lockwood, through the bedroom window, asking him to let her in, so she can be forgiven by her lover Heathcliff, and freed from her own personal purgatory. Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody".


A - Wuthering Heights  (4:20)
       Written-By – Bush

B - Kite  (2:52)
      Written-By – Bush

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – EMI-Bovema Holland
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – EMI Records Ltd.

Credits

• Mastered By – HN
• Producer – Andrew Powell

Notes

Released: 1978

Genre: Rock, Pop 

Style: Pop Rock, Art Rock

Label: EMI Records 

Catalog# 5C 006-06596 

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The Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again b/w After Sex (1975) - single

• Written by Curtis Mayfield, this was part of the soundtrack for the 1975 comedy film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. The Staples performed all the songs on the soundtrack, including "Funky Love," "A Whole Lot of Love" and "After Sex." You might notice a theme.
• The song topped the Hot 100 for one week in December 27, 1975, the day before Roebuck "Pops" Staples' 61st birthday. It was the second of two #1 hits for the Staple Singers following "I'll Take You There" three years earlier.
• The song shocked the Staple Singers' gospel fans with its sexual lyrics over a sensual groove - it's pretty obvious what they want to do again. Indeed, Pops Staples had to be persuaded to sing his part. His daughter Mavis recalled to Uncut in 2016: "In the studio, Curtis said, 'Pops, this is your part…' And it was (sings) 'I like you lady. So fine with your pretty hair.' And Pops said, 'Curtis, man, I'm not gonna sing that. I'm a church man.' And Curtis said, 'Oh Pops, the Lord won't mind.'
  
  Me and my sisters wanted to hear our voices on the big screen, so we kept at him and said, 'Daddy, it's just a movie score, you're not leaving the church…' And we finally got him to do it."
• This was the #1 song in America when Time magazine published an article about "sex rock" songs the last week of December in 1975. Along with Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby" and KC & The Sunshine Band's "That's The Way (I Like It)," it was cited as an example of the genre, which was drawing the ire of many activist groups that felt these songs were leading to unwanted pregnancies.
  
  The Staple Singers had been described as gospel, pop, spiritual and soul, but "sex rock" is not a tag they were likely to earn.

A - Let's Do It Again  (3:28)
      Written-By – Curtis Mayfield

B - After Sex  (3:24)

      Written-By – Curtis Mayfield

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

Credits

• Arranged By – Gil Askey, Rich Tufo
• Producer – Curtis Mayfield

Both sides "Edited Version"s taken from "the Original Sound Track Album CU 5005 LET'S DO IT AGAIN." Distributed by Warner Bros.

Notes

Released: 1975
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul Ballad
Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎
Catalog# WB 16.645

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Frans Biezen - Winter In De Stad b/w Ode Aan Marlies (1976) - single

Frans Biezen - Aliases:  Frank Ashton, Frank Avons, Frank Duzzle, Frank Evans

Frank Ashton (Tilburg, 10 oktober 1946), artiestennaam van Frans Biezen, is een zanger die doorbrak met de Tilburgse beatgroep Les Cruches. In 1974 werd hij zanger bij het dansorkest Hannie en de Rekels, een voortzetting van het samenwerkingsverband Corry en de Rekels. Hij nam ook platen op onder de namen Frankie Duzzle, Frank Evans en (als duo) Frans & Monique.

In 1986 won Ashton de Soundmixshow met een uitvoering van het lied Reno Town van Tony Christie. Die overwinning betekende voor hem een verdere doorbraak als zanger. Na een val van een podium in 1997 leek een einde te komen aan de zangcarrière van Biezen. Na jaren van revalideren maakte de zanger in 2004 echter zijn comeback met het album Latin Lover.

De muzikant bracht vanaf 1966 34 singles uit.


A - Winter In De Stad (4:09)
       Written-By – C. Willems, T. Hendrik, K.v. Haaren

B - Ode Aan Marlies (3:33)

      Written-By – C. Willems

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Dureco
• Distributed By – Dureco
• Recorded At – Dureco Studio

Credits

• Producer – Cor Willems
• Recorded By – Emile Elsen

Notes

Release: 1976

Genre: Nederlandstalig

Label:  Elf Provinciën Records

Catalog#  ELF 65.062 

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