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Stars on 45: The Very Best of Stars on 45x

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Label: Music Collection Intl.
Released: 1994
Time:
 53:07
Category: Disco
Producer(s): Jaap Eggermont
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.thestarson45.nl
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Purchase date: 1998.07.04
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] The Beatles Medley - 16:13
     1. Stars on 45
     2. No Reply
     3. I'll Be Back
     4 .Drive My Car
     5. Do You Want To Know A Secret
     6. We Can Work It Out
     7. I Should Have Known Better
     8. Nowhere Man
     9. You're Going To Lose That Girl
     10. Ticket To Ride
     11. The Word
     12. Eleanor Rigby
     13. Every Little Thing
     14. And Your Bird Can Sing
     15.Get Back
     16. Eight Days A Week
     17. It Won't Be Long
     18. Day Tripper
     19. Wait
     20. Stars on 45
     21. Good Day Sunshine
     22. My Sweet Lord
     23. Here Comes The Sun
     24. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
     25. Taxman
     26. A Hard Day's Night
     27. Things We Said Today
     28. If I Fell
     29. You Can't Do That
     30. Please Please Me
     31. From Me To You
     32. I Want To Hold Your Hand
     33. Stars On 45

[2] The Abba Medley - 11:39
     1. Stars on 45 (2)
     2. Papa Was A Rolling Stone
     3. Dance To The Music
     4. Sugar Baby Love
     5. Papa Was A Rolling Stone
     6. Let's Go To San Francisco
     7. A Morse With No Name
     8. Monday Monday
     9. San Francisco
     10. California Dreamin'
     11. Eve Of Destruction
     12. Tears Of A Clown
     13. Stop In The Name Of Love
     14. Cracklin' Rose
     15. Do-Wah Diddy Diddy
     16. A Lover's Concerto
     17. Reach Out I'll Be There
     18. Sounds Of Silence
     19. Stars on 45 (2)
     20. Voulez-Vous
     21. S.O.S.
     22. Bang-A-Boomerang
     23. Money, Money, Money
     24. Knowing Me, Knowing You
     25. Fernando
     26. The Winner Takes It All
     27. Super Trouper
     28. Stars on 45 (2)

[3] Stevie Wonder Medley - 7:49
     1. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
     2. My Cherie Amour
     3. Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
     4. Master Blaster
     5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
     6. Isn't She Lovely
     7. 'Stars On' Jingle
     8. Sir Duke
     9. I Wish
     10. I Was Made To Love Her
     11. For Once In My Life
     12. Superstition
     13. Sir Duke
     14. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
     15. A Place In The Sun
     16. Fingertips

[4] The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band In The World - 5:17
     1. The Stars Will Never Stop
     2. Sympathy For The Devil
     3. Brown Sugar
     4. Jumpini Jack Flash
     5. Under My Thumb
     6. Honky Tonk Woman
     7. Out Of Time
     8. Emotional Rescue
     9. She's A Rainbow
     10. Start Me Up
     11. Angie

[5] Supremes Medley - 7:08
     1. Stop In The Name Of Love
     2. Love Child
     3. Reflections
     4. Someday Well Be Together
     5. Stars on 45
     6. Baby Love
     7. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
     8. Where Did Our Love Go
     9. I Hear A Symphony
     10. You Keep Me Hanging On
     11. Ain't No Mountain High Enough

[6] Star Wars And Other Hits - 5:19
     1. Star Wars (Main Title)
     2. Can't Give You Anything But My Love
     3. Kung-Fu Fighting
     4. Layla
     5. All Right Now
     6. Fire
     7. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
     8. Ma Baker
     9. Y.M.C.A.
     10. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
     11. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough)
     12. Suicide Is Painless (Theme From M.A.S.H.)
     13. The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore
     14. Overture From 'Tommy'
     15. Get Off
     16. Stars on 45
     17. Baker Street
     18. Bette Davis' Eyes
     19. Eve Of The War

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Jaap Eggermont - Producer, Mixing

Bas Muys - Lennon
Hans Vermeulen - Harrison
Okkie Huysdens - McCartney

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


This is the best medley ever made! Some of the current "would like medley-maker" should first hear this album and then maybe decide not to make any medleys in their life. There is no chance to make a better medley than this! Enjoy and relax or dance or sing or whatever. A secret suggestion: the best place to hear this compilation is your car running with you on a highway! Thank to VCI's Music Collection International, that they don't forget these guys from Holland!

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Everybody knows the Beatles learned their trade in Hamburg, Germany but when Merseybeat went Dutch 20 years later, the result was a sensation!

The story started in the early 1980s with a bootleg (illegally pressed) 12-inch single combining many hit songs of the 1960s. Offering over ten minutes of non-stop dancing, it was unsurprisingly popular with disco DJs in Holland. One of the songs it sampled was Shocking Blue's 'Venus', and it was when the copyright owner of that song decided to bootleg the bootleggers that Stars On 45 was born. Producer Jaap Eggermont, former drummer of Golden Earring, selected the cream of Dutch singers to contribute vocals to a new, legal version for public release - and in doing so altered the medley of songs to give it a decidedly Beatle-esque flavour.

The individual numbers, sometimes just a verse and chorus, were recorded separately and edited together, quite a feat in the days before current digital sound technology. When the resulting medley, all eleven and a half minutes of it, topped the Dutch chart, it seemed the bootleggers had been beaten fair and square... But that was just the start of the story as Stars On 45 went world- wide!

When released in the States, the single made Number 1 in the Billboard chart (though with a couple of songs dropped for copyright reasons), having already reached Number 2 in Britain and charted as far afield as Mexico and New Zealand. More than that, it started a medley craze that saw the Beach Boys, Hollies and even the Beatles themselves (a mix of movie music) jump on the bandwagon. Then-current teen heart-throbs Wham! followed suit with a 'Club Tropicana' megamix, while others to sample a winning formula included Boney M and Technotronic.

But the Stars On 45 hit machine rocked on regardless, with three more British Top 20 entries during 1981-82: most successful was a tribute to Abba which reached Number 2, the same position as the original, while other efforts included a second Beatles medley, Stars On Stevie (Wonder), the Rolling Stones, Supremes and more. Its continuing success even gave rise to a live act, the Star Sisters, who took the whole thing on the road.

Like any successful pop phenomenon, the format had its critics, who considered Stars on 45 'faceless' - the most polite of several adjectives used. But it was certainly far from voice-less, and while all the vocalists you'll hear here have an uncanny likeness to the originals it was the abilities of the very first 'Fab Three' that gave the concept the impetus it needed for lift-off.

So take a bow Bas Muys (Lennon), Hans Vermeuien (Harrison) and Okkie Huysdens (McCartney) - the original stars of Stars on 45!

Michael Heatley
 

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