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Too-Rye-Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners enters the UK album chart, where it will peak at No2. The album is produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley.Full article:
Alan Winstanley (co-producer) : Kevin Rowland was pretty sure of what he wanted. And what he wanted was pretty good. So we offered a few bits of instrumentation. We got him to mix violins with brass; five of his songs had just fiddles, five songs had just horns. He couldn’t see that you could have them playing together.
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Clive Langer (co-producer) : I remember there were things like changing the key of a solo, little bits and pieces, a few strings. He didn’t like doing harmonies or overdubbing brass.
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Clive Langer : It wasn't until we did the Dexy's album Too-Rye-Ay that we started calling ourselves a partnership and telling record labels that we came as a package. In our own minds we still didn't consider it to be a long-term thing. That only happened in 1983 when we made a commitment to build Westside Studios together - and even then we knew there would be occasions when we would work apart. Before that, although we worked as a team on a lot of recordings, I still hadn't given up hope of being an artist, and in between the first two Madness albums I was on the road as Clive Langer and The Boxes, supporting Elvis Costello. For me, production was another interest. When I did one thing for too long I found myself wanting to do the other. If I'm honest it's probably still the same today, but at that stage my artist career was more successful, while these days my production is more important.
(Source : interview with Sue Sillitoe in Sound On Sound, July 1998)
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Clive Langer (co-producer) : I remember there were things like changing the key of a solo, little bits and pieces, a few strings. He didn’t like doing harmonies or overdubbing brass.
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Clive Langer : It wasn't until we did the Dexy's album Too-Rye-Ay that we started calling ourselves a partnership and telling record labels that we came as a package. In our own minds we still didn't consider it to be a long-term thing. That only happened in 1983 when we made a commitment to build Westside Studios together - and even then we knew there would be occasions when we would work apart. Before that, although we worked as a team on a lot of recordings, I still hadn't given up hope of being an artist, and in between the first two Madness albums I was on the road as Clive Langer and The Boxes, supporting Elvis Costello. For me, production was another interest. When I did one thing for too long I found myself wanting to do the other. If I'm honest it's probably still the same today, but at that stage my artist career was more successful, while these days my production is more important.
(Source : interview with Sue Sillitoe in Sound On Sound, July 1998)