Together in Electric Dreams
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| Single by Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder and Electric Dreams soundtrack | |||||||||||||||||
| Released | September 21, 1984 (UK) January 25, 1988 (US) |
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| Format | 7", 12", CD single | ||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | Musicland Studios Munich & Powerplay Studios Zurich, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Synthpop, new wave | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:45 | ||||||||||||||||
| Label | Virgin Records | ||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Giorgio Moroder | ||||||||||||||||
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| EP by various artists | |
| Released | November 2007 |
| Recorded | 2007 |
| Genre | Electronic, synthpop |
| Length | 23:23 |
| Label | Sunday Best Recordings |
| Producer | Rob da Bank |
"Together in Electric Dreams" is a song by the British singer and composer Philip Oakey and Italian composer and producer Giorgio Moroder. It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the original soundtrack of the 1984 film Electric Dreams.
It later formed part of the joint album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, released in 1985. Released as a single in the UK in September 1984 it proved a major commercial success, even eclipsing the original film it was intended to promote. It reached No.3 in the UK Singles Chart, staying in the charts for 13 weeks. The single also hit the Australian Top 5 and had minor chart success in New Zealand and the Netherlands. It was the only song from the brief Oakey/Moroder partnership that achieved commercial success, and was released as a single in the United States in 1988.
The film Electric Dreams was director Steve Barron's first full feature film. Barron's prior work included conceiving and directing a number of innovative music videos during the early 1980s. His biggest success up to that point had been as director of the music video for The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" in 1981, which helped the single become number one in the UK and US.
For the film Electric Dreams, Barron wanted to emulate the huge success of the film Flashdance a year earlier. Flashdance had used the electronic music of Giorgio Moroder, so Barron enlisted Moroder as director of music, who wrote most of the score. Barron wanted the end credits to roll to "an emotional" song in the same way as Flashdance had done.
Moroder wrote "Together in Electric Dreams" as a male solo vocal, and Barron suggested his former associate Philip Oakey for the part.
After the initial full recording of the song was completed, Moroder told Oakey that the first take was "good enough, as first time is always best". Oakey, who thought he was just rehearsing, insisted on doing another take. Moroder agreed, though Oakey believes that Moroder still used the first take on the final production.
Originally released to advertise the film, "Together in Electric Dreams" quickly overshadowed the original film and became a success in its own right. Oakey stated that it is ironic that a track that took literally ten minutes to record would become a worldwide hit, while some of his Human League material that took over a year to record did not.
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