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Imagination · 1981
Recording

Recorded in early to mid-1981 at Red Bus in London for Imagination’s debut album Body Talk. The session featured the trio’s core lineup, with Steve Jolley and Tony Swain handling production, arrangement, and engineering. Released as the third single from Body Talk on 30 October 1981, it extended the album’s strong run of UK hit singles. The song reached No. 16 on the Official Singles Chart and spent 15 weeks there. The track remained one of Imagination’s most reused recordings, with later artists sampling and remixing it repeatedly. It has been credited with at least nine later sample or remix uses.

ArtistImagination
Year1981
GenreSynth-Pop
StudioRed Bus (London)
LabelR&B
ProducersSteve Jolley · Tony Swain
How curators tag this
Synth-Pop100%
Sound check
Same ArtistFig. A
Body Talk
Imagination · 1981
Burnin’ Up
Imagination · 1981
I’ll Always Love You
Imagination · 1981
In and Out of Love
Imagination · 1981
So Good, So Right
Imagination · 1981
SamplesFig. B
We've Started Up
Boards of Canada · 1996 · sampled-by
Maliblue
Darius (Electronic Musician) · 2012 · sampled-by
Miami Nice
Steve Angello · 2003 · sampled-by
Year · 1981Fig. C
Fate
Chaka Khan · 1981
She's a Bad Mama Jama
Carl Carlton · 1981
You'll Like It Too
Funkadelic · 1981
Gigolo Rapp
Disco Daddy & Captain Rapp · 1981
Numbers / Computer·World…2
Kraftwerk · 1981
Same GenreFig. D
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In
The Moog Machine · 1969
Everybody Knows
John Legend · 2008
My Boys
Taken by Trees · 2009
The Look Of Love, Pt.1
ABC · 1982
Hand of Man
Django Django · 2012
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1980s
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