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Thread started 11/28/12 3:28pm

Timmy84	Diana Ross - Telephone
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Reply #1 posted 11/28/12 4:17pm

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Timmy84 said:

Downloaded this song a few months ago! music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music

I'M NOT SHOUTING, JEEZ!

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Reply #2 posted 11/28/12 4:33pm

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Oldies week! biggrin

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0

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Reply #3 posted 11/28/12 4:45pm

dancerella	Timmy84 said: Ok this is too weird. Ijust heard a snippet of this song on sunday and was looking for a download of it today. Question, why is the Swept away album so hard to find? I can't find it online or in stores anywhere. I really want it.
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Reply #4 posted 11/28/12 6:00pm

yanowha	dancerella said: Ok this is too weird. Ijust heard a snippet of this song on sunday and was looking for a download of it today. Question, why is the Swept away album so hard to find? I can't find it online or in stores anywhere. I really want it. It's out of print in the US. The Japanese import is under $30 @ amazon.com. You can probably get a cheap used copy on eBay.
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Reply #5 posted 11/28/12 6:23pm

musicman	Timmy84 said: I love how cool and funky Bernard Edwards made this song. I actually like the Swept Away album. It was one of her strong albums in the 80s. [Edited 11/28/12 18:24pm]
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Reply #6 posted 11/29/12 12:54am

dancerella

yanowha said:

dancerella said:

Ok this is too weird. Ijust heard a snippet of this song on sunday and was looking for a download of it today. Question, why is the Swept away album so hard to find? I can't find it online or in stores anywhere. I really want it.

It's out of print in the US. The Japanese import is under $30 @ amazon.com. You can probably get a cheap used copy on eBay.

That truly sux. I want a copy now. I think Iwould really like this album. It seems artsy and edgy.

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Reply #7 posted 11/29/12 3:54am

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Looooove this song! Love the groove! Swept Away is my favourite RCA album by Ms Ross and should be remastered, thank you very much!

When I saw her live on the Eaten Alive tour in 1985 (the album had just come out), she performed Telephone as well as several other tracks off of Swept Away. What a memorable night that was...

Just like the white winged dove...

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Reply #8 posted 11/29/12 6:01am

banks

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This is my shit Timmy headbang

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Reply #9 posted 11/29/12 8:46am

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This was the 5th single from Diana's platinum album, "Swept Away" ("Touch by Touch" was an international only single). All singles hit the charts and were hits. I loved "Telephone", it just missed the Top 10, peaking @ #13! Released over a year later, it is safe to assume that it helped to sell albums and get Diana her 2 platinum RCA/EMI UK album, and her 3rd gold/platinum RCA/EMI UK disc (her 2nd RCA/EMI UK album, "Silk Electric" sold 800k....had they released a 3rd single from that album, it would have probably gone platinum as well).
It was the peak era of the music video and 12 inch mixes. To handicap "Telephone"by not releasing it with either of those marketing tools was short sighted. "Swept Away" had 3 music videos with Entertainment Tonight supplying a hand shot video for "We Are the Children of the World" that they aired on one of their weeknight and then weekly recap shows.
It really left fans wondering what another effort produced by Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards would indeed sound like. 5 years later, Nile would produce "Workin' Overtime" sans Bernard Edwards. "Telephone" made fans think that Bernard was the more soulful of the two.

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Reply #10 posted 11/29/12 8:51am

Timmy84	A music video definitely would've worked... but I guess Diana was still in that rapid "gotta release another album" phase before teetering out. RCA didn't know what to do with her in the US after Swept Away.
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Reply #11 posted 11/29/12 8:52am

Timmy84	banks said: This is my shit Timmy Yeah this is one of my all-time favorite DR cuts...
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Reply #12 posted 11/29/12 1:20pm

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I would love to hear a live version of Telephone. I wonder if a bootleg exists?

whitesockedfunk said:

Looooove this song! Love the groove! Swept Away is my favourite RCA album by Ms Ross and should be remastered, thank you very much!

When I saw her live on the Eaten Alive tour in 1985 (the album had just come out), she performed Telephone as well as several other tracks off of Swept Away. What a memorable night that was...

Personally . I think we are all Boring with No Lives cause all we do is talk about Prince,Criticize and Gossip. I need a Horny Man is what I Need and probably so do most of yas. We are Sexually Frustrated what we R... Amen..!!! - zelaire

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Reply #13 posted 11/29/12 7:29pm

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Nice sexy seductive cut from the Boss. Was Eaten Alive on this album

as well?

Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint

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Reply #14 posted 11/29/12 8:21pm

Timmy84	phunkdaddy said: Nice sexy seductive cut from the Boss. Was Eaten Alive on this album as well? Nah Eaten Alive was on its own similarly titled album...
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