Jane - It's A Fine Day (A Guy Called Gerald Remix) |
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Jane - It's A Fine Day (12" Single) Credits: Remixed by A Guy Called Gerald. Etched into the vinyl: "It's A Fine Day - Jane sings on this one". :-) Comments: Originally released in the mid 80's, this song, featuring the sole vocals of Edward Barton's girlfriend - Jane, originally had no music to it. The idea was to reissue the track complete with Gerald's drum 'n' bass mix, but missed out on chartdom as it came after the cover of the song by Opus III (which Orbital sampled in their song 'Halcyon'), which probably prevented chart exposure. This is not Gerald's only collaboration with Edward Barton: he contributed a track called 'Barber Barber' to the compilation 'Edward Not Edward' featuring mainly Mancunian acts such as 808 State and the Inspiral Carpets covering Barton's off-beat songs. Also, Gerald can be heard saying 'Listen to Edward Barton - Do You Good!' on "To The Other Side" off the 'Automanikk' LP. There's an interesting story by the head of Cherry Red (Iain McNay) on this track here - reproduced below: "Late one extremely wet and cold Monday evening I was driving home from having dinner with our German licensee, when I suddenly found I had two flat tyres. I called the AA rescue service and sat somewhat dejectedly as I waited for them to come. I switched on the John Peel show and the first record I heard was the haunting song by Jane, 'It's a fine day.' I loved the record, and even more, loved the song. Next morning I rang Peel's producer to find out more about the record. I tracked down Edward Barton the owner, bought the rights to the record and the song, and three weeks later 'It's a fine day' was out on Cherry Red and sitting in the lower reaches of the National charts. It wasn't until nearly 10 years later that the true significance of my flat tyres became apparent. In January 1992 I was having dinner at MIDEM in Cannes again when Pete Waterman from PWL came over to me enthusiastically pronouncing, "Iain, we're going to have a No 1 hit with your song.' I didn't even know which song he was referring to until he explained that he was putting out a new version of 'Fine Day' by a group called OPUS 3. It didn't actually get to No 1 but was a big hit all over the Continent and has now become one of Complete Music's biggest copyrights. [Cherry Red Music changed it's name to Complete Music in 1984]" Check out my (needs major updates!) mini site on Edward Barton here.
Jane - It's A Fine Day (CD Single) Credits: Remixed by A Guy Called Gerald.
V/A - A Fine Day And A Brilliant Evening Credits: Remixed by A Guy Called Gerald.
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