Mandy (album)
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| Studio album by Mandy Smith | ||||
| Released | April 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1986–1988 | |||
| Genre | Pop, dance-pop | |||
| Label | PWL | |||
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Ian Curnow Pete Hammond Phil Harding Roddy Matthews Daize Washbourne |
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Japanese cover of "Mandy".
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Mandy is the only studio album by Mandy Smith. It was released by PWL in 1988, re-issued in 1993 in Japan and re-mastered and re-issued in 2009.
Smith, who was already well-known on the British tabloids due to her relationship with Rolling Stones member Bill Wyman, which started when she was 13, became the very first artist signed to Pete Waterman's PWL Records in September 1986 when she was 16 years old, and began working with producers for her first single, which was going to be a cover of the 1964 Twinkle hit "Terry". The recording however remained unreleased as a new song, "I Just Can't Wait" was eventually released as her debut single in January 1987. While the single was not a hit in her native UK, it became a sizable hit around Europe and Japan. The same was true for her second single, "Positive Reaction", released in October 1987.
Her European and Japanese success with the singles prompted a full album deal, and Smith worked all through late 1987 to early 1988 with Stock Aitken and Waterman as well as with some of their associate producers, including Phil Harding and Ian Curnow, Pete Hammond, Daize Washbourn and Roddy Matthews. The record was released in April 1988 and two further singles, "Boys and Girls" and "Victim of Pleasure" were also released that year. Again, the album saw chart action in Europe and Japan but was a complete failure in her native UK, failing to chart at all. Smith's final recording was a cover of The Human League's "Don't You Want Me Baby" in 1989, released as a standalone single, which became her only single to enter the UK top 75, peaking at #59.
The album also includes a cover of Propaganda's "Duel" and "If It Makes You Feel Good", which was originally recorded by Princess and would be recorded a year later by Donna Summer. "Stay With Me Tonight" was co-written by British singer Rick Astley under the pseudonym "Dick Spatsley". He also recorded the song at the time, but it was not released until it was included on the 2CD compilation "Phil Harding Club Mixes Of The 80s" in 2011.
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