Singer: Rockmelons Title: Tales Of The City Released: 1988 Country: US Style: Disco, Synth-pop, Funk, Soul Genre: Electronic / Soul Funk / Pop music Rating: 4.4 Votes: 622 Formats: APE MPC MP2 ADX MP3 AIFF VOC MP3 size: 1965 mb
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1
New Groove
A2
What's It Gonna Be?
A3
Jump
Lead Vocals [Guest Lead Vocals] – Wendy MatthewsWritten-By – Curtis Mayfield
A4
Thief
A5
Dreams In The Empty City
B1
Get Back On The Groove
B2
Rhymes
Written-By – Al Green
B3
Boogie Tron
B4
Money Talks
Mixed By – Adrian Bolland, The Rockmelons
Companies, etc.
Record Company
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EMI Music Group Australasia
Phonographic Copyright (p)
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Truetone Records
Copyright (c)
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Truetone Records
Manufactured By
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EMI Music Group Australasia
Distributed By
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EMI Music Group Australasia
Recorded At
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EMI Studios 301
Credits
Backing Vocals
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Danny deCosta,
Karen Boddington,
Mark Williams ,
Mary Azzopardi,
Wendy Matthews
Cover
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Libby Blainey
Dulcimer [Electric Dulcimer], Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Programmed By [Programming], Talkbox [Voice Box]
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Jonathon Jones
Effects [Fx], Performer [T.v.], Vocoder
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Raymond Medhurst
Engineer
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Adrian Bolland (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4),
Barry Rudolph (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
Engineer [Assistant Engineer]
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Adrian Bolland (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2),
Colin Simkins (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
Keyboards
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Vincent Dale
Keyboards, Vocoder, Backing Vocals, Programmed By [Programming]
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Bryon Jones
Lead Vocals
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John Kenny
Mastered By
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Leon Zervos
Mixed By
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Jim Taig (tracks: A3 to A5, B1, B3)
Producer
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Robin Smith (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2),
The Rockmelons (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
Producer [Production Assistance]
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Robert Racic (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
Sleeve [Inner Sleeve By]
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Matthew Martin
Written-By
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B. Jones* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B3, B4),
J. Jones* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B3, B4),
R. Medhurst* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B4),
R. Smith* (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B4)
Notes
Released in an outer sleeve, and an inner sleeve with credits on one side. Inner sleeve has cartoon panels drawn by Matthew Martin: side with credits has a panel for each song; the other side has a series of three panels titled "A Rockmelon...", with a bird wearing a hat and glasses and holding a cane which breaks out of a rockmelon.
Side A label is orange with the True Tone logo on top of this. True Tone logo comprises the label name in silver over a green diamond. The label name has a black shadow, and the green diamond has a light green "shadow". The side A label has the tracklisting, writing credits and matrix no.s for both sides A and B.
Side B label has a stylised drawing of a rockmelon with a slice cut out of it. There is no text on it.
In the runout matrix no.s, "LEON" is underlined on both sides. In the runout matrix no. on side A, "MASTERED BY STUDIOS 301" is stamped, all other characters are hand-etched.