"Cruel Summer" is a song by British group Bananarama , which was released as a single 23 June 1983 commercial promoting his second album titled simply "Bananarama" and with these three girls who became famous for all Europe.
This acclaimed trio of pop music, composed by the beautiful Sarah Dallin, Keren Woodward and Siobhan Fahey , left their mark very marked during the early 80's with songs that became in a few weeks in hits that went around the world , and also drew attention to a proposal be showing very different to everything that he paced the music scene in those years.
After nearly 4 years waiting for the arrival of a hit, the girls who were part of Bananarama managed to record a song that looked like something serious, in terms of sales.
After a good debut with his LP "Deep Sea Skiving" , where it took several cuts that were very touched by the British radio, the three girls began work on his siguiete album, which had to be made clear to criticism that it was not just a disposable band, and they were all musical weapons to achieve a worldwide hit.
So, in April 1983 in the studios of London Records label the Bananarama recorded a song called "Cruel Summer" , which was signed by three members of the band over its producers Tony Swain and Steve Jolley .
That song, which as already mentioned looked like a hit, talked about a woman who is depressed in the middle of a city that has been revolutionized by the arrival of summer. She feels very sad because her boyfriend has left for good, feels this is a "cruel summer" . That theme song is born ...
In June 2009, in an interview with The Guardian , Sara Dallin mentioned that "the songs that make the youth are those who leave in the summer, you remember all those glorious moments of the holiday. But in this song touched the dark side of those moments: The sweltering heat mixed with hardships of a young girl who wanted to spend a summer together. "
That game was a good hook contrasts trade as they went from the mold of a typical summer song full of positive statements, the chanted "all clear" relaxation the end, looks at girls in bikinis and all otherwise decorating the table so colorful yet with a strong seasoning charged fantasy.
With his arrival at # 8 UK Singles charts in July 1983, Bananarama again managed to be in the British arena and be as popular as they had done a year earlier. But there was a big step: conquer a good place in the U.S. charts.
In the first instance, which included single "Cruel Summer" only managed to enter at # 66 on the Billboard Hot 100.
But in 1984, Bananarama managed to enter the Billboard at # 9 because they decided, reluctantly, to include this song in the soundtrack of the film The Karate Kid , which was quite an event in the united and it rose to the top of international fame to this British trio.
On those days, Dallin recalled in the interview with The Guardian : "It was a great success in the U.S. will always remember that moment when he left a hotel in Los Angeles and I saw Mike Tyson sitting in his self heard "Cruel Summer". When he saw us, he came to greet and congratulate ... "
Years later, after be regarded as "the most popular female group in the UK , the Bananarama suffered their first setback when Siobhan Fahey decided to leave the band due to internal problems and was quickly replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan .
With its new member, the girls released a new version of this song as entitled "Cruel Summer '89" , including touches of Hip Hop. This version was again a hit in the UK reaching # 19 on the charts.
But the success of the song does not end there, since in 1998 the Swedish band Ace Of Base made a version of the hit eighties and managed to put back into the Top Ten U.S. and UK.
A song suitable for all nostalgic for the 80's, and to remember those summers more cruel than any citizen of the world had ... Enjoy it
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This acclaimed trio of pop music, composed by the beautiful Sarah Dallin, Keren Woodward and Siobhan Fahey , left their mark very marked during the early 80's with songs that became in a few weeks in hits that went around the world , and also drew attention to a proposal be showing very different to everything that he paced the music scene in those years.
After nearly 4 years waiting for the arrival of a hit, the girls who were part of Bananarama managed to record a song that looked like something serious, in terms of sales.
After a good debut with his LP "Deep Sea Skiving" , where it took several cuts that were very touched by the British radio, the three girls began work on his siguiete album, which had to be made clear to criticism that it was not just a disposable band, and they were all musical weapons to achieve a worldwide hit.
So, in April 1983 in the studios of London Records label the Bananarama recorded a song called "Cruel Summer" , which was signed by three members of the band over its producers Tony Swain and Steve Jolley .
That song, which as already mentioned looked like a hit, talked about a woman who is depressed in the middle of a city that has been revolutionized by the arrival of summer. She feels very sad because her boyfriend has left for good, feels this is a "cruel summer" . That theme song is born ...
In June 2009, in an interview with The Guardian , Sara Dallin mentioned that "the songs that make the youth are those who leave in the summer, you remember all those glorious moments of the holiday. But in this song touched the dark side of those moments: The sweltering heat mixed with hardships of a young girl who wanted to spend a summer together. "
That game was a good hook contrasts trade as they went from the mold of a typical summer song full of positive statements, the chanted "all clear" relaxation the end, looks at girls in bikinis and all otherwise decorating the table so colorful yet with a strong seasoning charged fantasy.
With his arrival at # 8 UK Singles charts in July 1983, Bananarama again managed to be in the British arena and be as popular as they had done a year earlier. But there was a big step: conquer a good place in the U.S. charts.
In the first instance, which included single "Cruel Summer" only managed to enter at # 66 on the Billboard Hot 100.
But in 1984, Bananarama managed to enter the Billboard at # 9 because they decided, reluctantly, to include this song in the soundtrack of the film The Karate Kid , which was quite an event in the united and it rose to the top of international fame to this British trio.
On those days, Dallin recalled in the interview with The Guardian : "It was a great success in the U.S. will always remember that moment when he left a hotel in Los Angeles and I saw Mike Tyson sitting in his self heard "Cruel Summer". When he saw us, he came to greet and congratulate ... "
Years later, after be regarded as "the most popular female group in the UK , the Bananarama suffered their first setback when Siobhan Fahey decided to leave the band due to internal problems and was quickly replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan .
With its new member, the girls released a new version of this song as entitled "Cruel Summer '89" , including touches of Hip Hop. This version was again a hit in the UK reaching # 19 on the charts.
But the success of the song does not end there, since in 1998 the Swedish band Ace Of Base made a version of the hit eighties and managed to put back into the Top Ten U.S. and UK.
A song suitable for all nostalgic for the 80's, and to remember those summers more cruel than any citizen of the world had ... Enjoy it
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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