Take That & Party
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| Studio album by Take That | ||||
| Released | 17 August 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1991–92 | |||
| Genre | Pop, dance | |||
| Length | 51:11 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Duncan Bridgeman, Ian Curnow, Billy Griffin, Pete Hammond, Phil Harding, Ray Hedges, Ian Levine, The Rapino Brothers, Graham Stack, Nigel Wright | |||
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| The Gazette | C |
Take That & Party is the debut studio album by English boy band Take That. The album was released on 17 August 1992 by RCA Records. It reached number two on the UK Albums Chart and stayed in the UK Top 75 album chart for 73 weeks (one year, five months and one week). It was the band's only album not to reach number one until Wonderland peaked at number two in 2017.
The album has been certified two times platinum in the United Kingdom.
In 1989, Manchester-based music mogul Nigel Martin-Smith sought to create a British male vocal group. Martin-Smith's vision, however, was a teen-orientated group that would aim across more than one demographic segment of the music industry. Martin-Smith was introduced to young singer songwriter Gary Barlow, and was so impressed with Barlow's catalogue of self-written material that he decided to build his new look boyband around Barlow's musical abilities. A campaign to audition young males with abilities in dancing and singing followed, and took place in Manchester and other surrounding cities in 1990. At 22, Howard Donald was one of the oldest to audition, but he was chosen after he got time off work as a vehicle painter to continue the process.
Martin-Smith soon managed to get the band a slot on hit television series The Hit Man and Her in 1990. The band chose to perform two of Barlow's self-written tracks: "Love" and "My Kind of Girl", neither of which have ever been commercially released. Shortly after the performance, Martin-Smith got the band a studio session with music producer Ray Hedges, where Barlow wrote "Do What U Like", "Take That and Party" and "Waiting Around", the first three tracks to be written specifically to be recorded by the band. "Do What U Like" was then released as the band's lead single on Martin-Smith's own label, Dance UK, on July 15, 1991, with "Waiting Around" appearing as the B-side, and "Take That and Party" being sidelined for release on the band's debut album.
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