Dancing In The Street
	Produced by Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley
	Released on August 1985
	UK CHART POSITION #1 . . . US CHART POSITION #70 (charted Aug. 31, 1985 for 9 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
V-19200 cover

S trange bedfellows for a good cause, Bowie and Jagger teamed up for a retelling of the old chestnut, “Dancing in the Street” (popularized by Martha and The Vandellas). Followed in a few months by Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” this was a holiday fruitcake come early for famine relief in Africa. During the televised Live Aid performance, this video was shown featuring the two frontmen prancing about like a couple of, well, like a couple of guys who prance a lot. If music be the food of love, that whole “save the world” phase was starved for affection. The 12-inch I own features this song in an extended dance remix (only two people ever danced to this song, and I’ve already named them), a dub mix and (in the true spirit of relief) an edited version. An instrumental version appears to grace the B side of the 7-inch single, which obviously removes whatever appeal the song had in the first place.

TRACK LISTING

1. DANCING IN THE STREET
2. DANCING IN THE STREET (INSTRUMENTAL)
   
   12-inch track listing
   
1. DANCING IN THE STREET (EXTENDED DANCE MIX)    (I.Hunter/W.Stevenson/M.Gaye)    4:40
2. DANCING IN THE STREET (DUB MIX)    (I.Hunter/W.Stevenson/M.Gaye)    4:41
3. DANCING IN THE STREET (EDITED VERSION)    (I.Hunter/W.Stevenson/M.Gaye)    3:24

CREDITS

DAVID BOWIE -- vocals
MICK JAGGER -- vocals, additional production
KEVIN ARMSTRONG -- guitar
NEIL CONTI -- drums
MAC GOLLEHON -- trumpet
STAN HARRISON -- alto & tenor sax
JIMMY MAELEN -- percussion
STEVE NIEVE -- keyboards
TESSA NILES -- background vocals
PEDRO ORTIZ -- percussion
LENNY PICKETT -- tenor & baritone sax
JOHN "SKINNY" REGAN -- bass
MATTHEW SELIGMAN -- bass
EARL SLICK -- guitar
G.E. SMITH -- guitar
HELENA SPRINGS -- background vocals
Michael Barbiero -- additional production, mixing
Nile Rodgers -- additional production
Steve Thompson -- additional production, mixing
Stephen Benben -- engineer
Bob Clearmountain -- engineer
Mark Saunders -- engineer
Jon Hoffman -- front cover photograph
David Bell -- back cover logo

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