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[Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 619
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Ok, aside from the obvious ones (Kylie, Mel & Kim) what are your favourite PWL singles ?
I was playing Donna Summer Love's About To Change My Heart and it's such an uplifting track. A classic.

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    shackfanshackfan Posts: 15,461
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    Got to be Dead or Alive and You Spin me Round.
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    BRITLANDBRITLAND Posts: 3,443
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    shackfan wrote: »
    Got to be Dead or Alive and You Spin me Round.
    ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
    This
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    dd68dd68 Posts: 17,841
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    I always thought it was a shame that Donna Summer never did a second album with them, I read that they gave the material to Lonnie Gordon
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    Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 32,491
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    the chauffeur wrote: »
    Ok, aside from the obvious ones (Kylie, Mel & Kim) what are your favourite PWL singles ?
    I was playing Donna Summer Love's About To Change My Heart and it's such an uplifting track. A classic.

    Agreed.

    But this is my favourite Donna track.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3TH_NeASnc
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    mialiciousmialicious Posts: 4,686
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    Princess - Say I'm your number one
    Malcolm Mclaren ft. Alison Limerick - Magics back
    SAW - Roadblock
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    sej17sej17 Posts: 377
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    Donna Summer "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" and the SAW remix of "A La Vie, A L'amour" by Jakie Quartz

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mT_xxbA5Esk
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    simonk243simonk243 Posts: 3,405
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    Obviously rick astley never gonna give you up then mel and kim respectable. Did they do Hazel Dean I think they did.
    I wish they would get some radio airplay never seem to these days rick astley and dead or alive are about the only two.
    We should bombard radio stations to get them played. Stuff like mel n kim hazel Dean donna summer rick astley all still sound good.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 325
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    Kylie Minogue - Better The Devil You Know
    Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real
    Mel & Kim - Respectable
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    barbelerbarbeler Posts: 23,827
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    What does PWL mean? :confused:
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    Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 32,491
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    barbeler wrote: »
    What does PWL mean? :confused:

    "The artist formerly known as SAW."
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    cody jarrettcody jarrett Posts: 1,945
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    Dead or Alive were SAW but crucially NOT on PWL.
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    chrisqcchrisqc Posts: 1,291
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    SO many classics

    Ill go with

    Nothing's gonna stop me now by Samantha fox followed by I should be so lucky from Kylie, love in the first degree from Bananarama
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    woofwoof77woofwoof77 Posts: 2,166
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    Funnily enough I too was listening to 'Love's about to change my heart' the other day , added it to my playlist, good track =)

    My faves are also Kylie 'Better the devil you know'
    Donna Summer ' This time I know its for real'
    Sonia 'Can't forget you/ Listen to your heart'

    PWL stands for Pete Waterman Ltd
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    JakeXYJakeXY Posts: 59
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    Other than Kylie and When I'm Good and Ready by Sybil, I don't care for PWL.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,874
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    I enjoyed their music when I was in my teen's now that I'm older I find most of it rubbish. However, I do like Carol Hitchcock's Get Ready.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 619
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    JakeXY wrote: »
    Other than Kylie and When I'm Good and Ready by Sybil, I don't care for PWL.

    oh i had forgotten about Sybil .. LOVED that single.
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    GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,442
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    Obviously Kylie's holy trinity of 'Better The Devil You Know', 'What Do I Have To Do?' & 'Shocked' are my faves, but 'Roadblock' was a top choon.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 20
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    Mel and Kim. Showing out and respectable are the obvious ones.
    Kylie - better the devil and what do I have to do.
    Donna summer - this time I know it's for real.
    Less obvious ones are - any times the right time - princess (the whole album is a classic though!) And mAndy Smith - boys and girls.
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    spaceygalspaceygal Posts: 3,448
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    Princess and Mel And Kim's albums I love. I Heard A Rumour by Bananarama, most of Kylie's stuff, Donna Summer's album with them with excellent too and the first couple of Lonnie Gordon's singles. Oh and Sinitta's I Don't Believe In Miracles is very catchy. Roadblock is a good one too and a totally different sound and style to the one they gave to all their acts! They wrote and produced a lot of samey sounding dross too, that's for sure, but I think their good songs were good enough to balance it out! :-)
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    AKindSoulAKindSoul Posts: 177
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    Brother Beyond - The Harder I Try
    Sonia - Listen to your Heart
    Sybil - When I'm Good and Ready
    Hazel Dean - Who's Leaving Who
    Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real
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    SuperAPJSuperAPJ Posts: 10,402
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    Donna Summer - This Time I know It's For Real

    It's just so feelgood!
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    newplanetnewplanet Posts: 398
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    SuperAPJ wrote: »
    Donna Summer - This Time I know It's For Real

    It's just so feelgood!

    I've said many times before that the lyrics on that particular song are quite rare for a SAW produced track in that they are so joyous. Admittedly, she doesn't quite yet know if her love is requited but, for once, there's no reason to believe that it isn't.

    Mike Stock's lyrics were almost always tragic, disguised of course with the happy-go-lucky melody, the plinkity-plonkity piano and the explosion in the metronome factory. With This Time I Know It's For Real you get the feel-good lyrics too.

    Some of my other favourite SAW/PWL tracks are:

    Mel and Kim - That's The Way It Is
    Bananarama - I Can't Help It & Love, Truth & Honesty
    Sinitta - I Don't Believe In Miracles
    Boy Krazy - That's What Love Can Do
    Donna Summer - When Love Takes Over You
    Kylie - Better The Devil You Know
    Lonnie Gordon - How Could He Do This To Me
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    RetroMusicFanRetroMusicFan Posts: 6,673
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    Respectable/Showing Out-Mel and Kim
    Whenever You Need Somebody/Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
    You Spin Me Round-Dead Or Alive
    I'd Rather Jack-Reynolds Girls
    Got To Be Certain-Kylie
    So Macho/Toy Boy-Sinitta
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    Hound of LoveHound of Love Posts: 80,144
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    Say I'm Your Number One/After The Love Has Gone - Princess

    All 4 Mel & Kim singles

    What Do I Have To Do/Step Back In Time/Shocked/Better The Devil You Know - Kylie

    I Can't Help it - Bananarama
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,874
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    RetroMusicFan wrote: »
    Respectable/Showing Out-Mel and Kim
    Whenever You Need Somebody/Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
    You Spin Me Round-Dead Or Alive
    I'd Rather Jack-Reynolds Girls
    Got To Be Certain-Kylie
    So Macho/Toy Boy-Sinitta

    So Macho isn't a SAW production. It was produced by George Hargreaves.
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