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The resulting collaboration produced this song and Oates has stated that if Davies had not released the song under the Icehouse name, then it would have been a Hall & Oates track. [3] "Electric Blue" was released in August 1987 as the second single from Icehouse's fifth studio album, Man of Colours (1987).
The album peaked at No. 1 on the Australian album charts for 11 weeks from 5 October 1987 [7] and has sold over 700,000 copies. [5] " Electric Blue" was their only Australian No. 1 single, [7] the release of the album and its five singles marked the zenith of Icehouse's commercial success, both locally and internationally.
Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1977 as Flowers.Initially known in their homeland for their pub rock style, the band later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synth-pop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. [1] The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record ...
La Vie en rose" was the song that made Piaf internationally famous, its lyrics expressing the joy of finding true love and appealing to those who had endured the hardships of World War II. [8] "La Vie en rose" was released on a 10-inch single in 1947 by Columbia Records, a division of EMI, with "Un refrain courait dans la rue" making the B-side ...
Electric Blue, by Andy Bell, or the title song, 2005 "Electric Blue" (song), a 1987 song by Icehouse "Electric Blue", a song by Arcade Fire from Everything Now, 2017 ...
In the United States, the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1981. [ 1 ] "Icehouse" was written by founding member Iva Davies when he lived at 18 Tryon Road, Lindfield in an old, cold flat of a two-storey mansion—across the street was a dishevelled house which had its lights on all night peopled by short-term residents.
He was particularly well known for his work on the Disney films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, and for the mostly-English lyrics [2] [3] [4] through which Édith Piaf's signature song "La Vie en rose" gained much of its familiarity among native speakers of English. David was the elder brother of American lyricist and songwriter Hal David. [1]
Sidewalk is the third studio album by Australian rock band Icehouse, released on 26 June 1984 by Chrysalis Records and Regular Records. It peaked at No. 8 on the National albums chart. Founding member Iva Davies used the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer on this more sombre and reflective album. [4]