Bette Bright - Rhythm Breaks the Ice
#674
1981 Housekeeping
Bette Bright
Rhythm Breaks the Ice
Genre: New Wave/Pop
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
When You Were Mine
Thunder and Lightning
Other covers:
Dennis Linde’s “Hello, I Am Your Heart”. I think I would have liked Linde. But he’s way before my time. Jonathan King’s art school version is actually better. We heard Manfred Mann’s version in 1980. It played like a New Wave dirge. Nitty Gritty’s 1994 version is probably the most honest.
Opening with a cover…is acceptable here because, fuck, that’s an indestructible song that I’ve always thought should have been covered by the Pipettes or the Go-Gos or The Bangles and Bette gets close.
You know why this tastes so good?
Ian Broudie. He doesn’t produce it, that’s Clive Langer’s job, but he’s on it and his presence must have made everyone better.
Bette was a couple years too early. She should have been able to score a couple Lauper/Stacey Q hits.
Before Rod scored a hit with “Some Guys Have All the Luck” it was recorded by many others, including Bette, who sang it as “Some Girls Have All the Luck”.
Can’t keep a good song down.
Bette takes her cue from Junior Tucker’s reggae take on it, as opposed to Stewart who would go on to play it as Robert Palmer performed it, when Palmer thought he wrote but it just turned out he heard it and forgot it and then thought he wrote it.
Really.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-rhythm-breaks-the-ice/621639858
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