Maxine Nightingale

[nrgbeat]

The other day I heard Maxine's "Right Back Where We Started From" on an oldies station. Although I like the song, I always considered this a hard song to dance to.

Was this song a big disco hit or just a radio hit? How did people dance to it? Jumping jacks on the dancefloor?

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[markydefad]

Yeah, this song does get included in a lot of Disco compilations...but it was really just a PURE POP radio song--I never heard it in a club. It's around 150 BPM --definitely an aerobics class tempo.

[DanceMan]

Hey guys....I danced to this in a contest and came in second place...the guy who did "Sugar Baby Love" by the Rubettes came in first.....I remember everybody was asking me if I would share what I was ON with them...but I was normal through and through

Musically, I guess that there wasn't anything I couldn't move to the beat to if it was a good song.

BTW, both these songs were HUGE in Dance bars - but died in discoteques, per se...

[zeca azevedo]

Hey guys,

this song by Maxine Nightingale sounds like the material H-D-H cooked for THE SUPREMES in the 60's, In fact, it sounds like classic MOTOWN (without the trademark sound of the FUNK BROTHERS, or course). "Rigth back..." is a "stomper", the kind of song that was played a lot on the Northern Soul scene. There's much more songs that sounds like classic MOTOWN: Hall & Oates MANEATER's bassline is pure sixties MOTOWN. There's an 80's song by a group called WAX that sounds like 60's MOTOWN too (can't remember the name now).

zeca azevedo, tum-tum-tum, tum-tum-de-dum

[PierreConstantin]

A excellent disco song with a killer break : «Hideaway» from her 1979 lp «Lead me on». «Hideaway» was also remixed for a 12" B-side. The remixed version is 7:37 and the lp version 5:50. The remixed break is longer but the vocals had lost the echo effect they had on the lp version.

Maxine Nightingale - (Bringing Out) The Girl In Me / Hideaway
Maxine Nightingale - Lead Me On

[Cdnbob]

A excellent disco song with a killer break : «Hideaway» from her 1979 lp «Lead me on». «Hideaway» was also remixed for a 12" B-side. The remixed version is 7:37 and the lp version 5:50. The remixed break is longer but the vocals had lost the echo effect they had on the lp version.

Maxine Nightingale - (Bringing Out) The Girl In Me / Hideaway
Maxine Nightingale - Lead Me On

Hey Pierre, I have her Lead Me On LP but its packed away. But out of curiousity, do you know if the version of Hideaway on the album is a long version, or just a standard length?

[pepper1dancer]

I had heard on Casey Kasems Top 40 show way back in the 70's and Maxine had told Casey she was at a Disco and they played her song. She told him that it was hard for her to dance to that song. I dont know if she meant the beat or because it was her song.

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Evelyn Thomas' "Sorry, Wrong Number", on Record Shack, was Ian Levine's tribute to this song.
And an excellent one, I must add!

And Sinitta's remake, on Fanfare/UK, produced by SAW, was true to the original.
It was the same speed, tempo and danceable. And certainly got played.

[PierreConstantin]

I have three versions of «Hideaway», a song I particularly like:
1- the lp version [5:55], on the album «Lead me on» (Windsong/RCA BXL 1-3404)
2- the edit [3:37], on the B-side of the 7" «(Bringing out) the girl in me» [3:30] (Windsong/RCA CB11729)
3- the extended version [7:37], on the B-side of the 12" «(Bringing out) the girl in me» [5:08] (RCA JD11730).

The original version is the one on the lp.
«Hideaway» is the only new song of the album, the others being taken from her previous lp. It's the only real disco song of the album, a very danceable one, kind of «Carmen goes to the disco» flavoured. I think the song didn't chart but oddly enough the album got a good review in «Playgirl» (October 1979) and a publicity ad in the same copy.