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"Careless Whisper"
Careless Whisper UK single.jpg

Great britain 7" vinyl release artwork, too used for various international releases
Single by George Michael (most territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (United states of america)
from the anthology Get in Big
Released 24 July 1984
Studio Sarm West, London
Genre
  • Pop[1]
  • soul[two]
  • R&B[three]
Length
  • vi:30 (album version)
  • 5:00 (single version)
Label
  • Ballsy
  • Columbia
  • Sony
Songwriter(s)
  • George Michael
  • Andrew Ridgeley
Producer(s)
  • George Michael
  • Jerry Wexler (original)
George Michael (most territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (United States) singles chronology
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
(1984) 		"Careless Whisper"
(1984) 		"Freedom"
(1984)
George Michael (residuum of the world) singles chronology
"Careless Whisper"
(1984) 		"A Dissimilar Corner"
(1986)
Music video
"Devil-may-care Whisper" on YouTube
Alternative cover
Artwork for the US 7" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael.

Artwork for the US 7" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael.

"Devil-may-care Whisper" is a song past the English language vocalist George Michael. Information technology was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley[4] of Wham! and was released on 24 July 1984 on the Wham! album Get in Large.

The song features a prominent saxophone riff, and has been covered by a number of artists since its showtime release. It was released as a single and became a huge commercial success around the globe. Information technology reached number one in nearly 25 countries, selling well-nigh 6 1000000 copies worldwide—2 meg of them in the United States.[5]

Groundwork [edit]

Limerick and writing [edit]

In 1981, Michael was working as a DJ in the Bel Air restaurant near Bushey, Hertfordshire.[half dozen] Michael explained in his autobiography, Bare, that he conceptualised "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. Michael wrote, "I was on my fashion to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote 'Devil-may-care Whisper'. I accept e'er written on buses, trains and in cars. Information technology always happens on journeys... With 'Devil-may-care Whisper' I remember exactly where information technology offset came to me, where I came up with the sax line... I recall I was handing the coin over to the guy on the bus and I got this line, the sax line... I wrote it totally in my head. I worked on it for near three months in my head."[7]

"When I was twelve, thirteen, I used to have to chaperone my sister, who was two years older, to an ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. "At that place was a daughter there with long blonde hair whose proper noun was Jane. I was a fat boy in glasses and I had a big beat out on her - though I didn't stand a chance. My sister used to become and do what she wanted when we got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this daughter Jane."[viii]

"A few years later on, when I was sixteen, I had my first relationship with a daughter called Helen," Michael connected.

It had just started to cool off a bit when I discovered that the blonde girl from Queensway had moved in just around the corner from my school. She had moved in right next to where I used to stand and wait for my next-door neighbour, who used to give me a lift dwelling house from schoolhouse. And one solar day I saw her walk downward the path next to me and I thought – now where did SHE come from? She didn't know it was me. It was a few years after and I looked a lot dissimilar. And then we played a school disco with The Executive and she saw me singing and decided she fancied me. By this time she was that much older and a big buxom thing – and eventually I started seeing her. She invited me in one day when I was waiting for my elevator and I was ... in heaven.[viii]

Michael observed that after he stopped wearing glasses, he began getting invited to parties. "And the girl who didn't even see me when I was twelve invited me in," he noted.

And then I went out with her for a couple of months only I didn't stop seeing Helen. I thought I was beingness smart – I had gone from beingness a total loser to being a ii-timer. And I remember my sisters used to give me a difficult time because they found out and they actually liked the first girl. The whole idea of "Careless Whisper" was the showtime girl finding out nigh the second – which she never did. But I started another relationship with a girl called Alexis without finishing the ane with Jane. It all got a bit complicated. Jane found out nigh her and got rid of me ... The whole time I thought I was being absurd, being this two-timer, but at that place really wasn't that much emotion involved. I did experience guilty most the offset girl – and I accept seen her since – and the idea of the song was about her. "Careless Whisper" was us dancing, considering nosotros danced a lot, and the idea was – we are dancing ... just she knows ... and it's finished.[8]

Andrew Ridgeley came up with the chord sequence on his Fender Telecaster he had received for his 18th birthday.[ix] They continued to work together on the music and lyric both at Michael's firm in Radlett, and Shirlie Holliman'south aunt's basement flat in Peckham, where Ridgeley was living.[ix] [10]

Demoing [edit]

The original demo was recorded past local music producer Paul Mex, in January 1982 aslope those for "Social club Tropicana" and "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" in the front room of Ridgeley'due south domicile (his parents' lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with Mex'due south TEAC four-track Portastudio. Because most of the 24-hour interval was spent on Wham Rap!... and Ridgeley's mother had returned home by that point, Careless Whisper had to be recorded in one have very quickly. It featured a Doctor Rhythm drum machine, an acoustic guitar (played past Ridgeley) and a bass guitar (played by Dave West), with Michael's vocal (recorded with a microphone attached to a broom handle).[11] [12] The overall price of the recording was £xx (largely due to the rental cost of the Portastudio) and the duo landed a deal with Innervision by Mark Dean on the forcefulness of the demos.[13] [14]

A more complete and fully realised second demo was recorded on 24 March 1982 at Halligan Band Middle, Holloway, London with a backing ring and a saxophone riff.[15] However, on the same day, Michael and Ridgely were called over past Dean to sign a contract in add-on to the record deal, which they did at a nearby greasy spoon café. Michael recalls of that 24-hour interval:

"One of the nigh incredible moments of my life was hearing 'Devil-may-care Whisper' demoed properly, with a band, a sax and everything. Information technology was ironic that we signed the contract with Marking [Dean] that twenty-four hour period, the twenty-four hour period I finally believed we had number-one material. That aforementioned day nosotros signed it all away. But y'all tin can never really know what you are capable of, yous tin never really have that foresight."[xv]

Production [edit]

The vocal went through at least two rounds of production. The first was during a trip Michael made to Sheffield, Alabama, where he went to piece of work with producer Jerry Wexler at Musculus Shoals Sound Studio in 1983.[sixteen] [17] Michael was unhappy with the original version produced past Wexler, and decided to re-record and produce the song himself; the second version was the ane ultimately released as a unmarried.

Later on the bankroll track and George's vocal had been recorded, Wexler had booked the top saxophone actor from Los Angeles to wing in and exercise the solo.[18] "He arrived at eleven and should accept been gone by twelve", recalled Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell. "Instead, after ii hours, he was all the same in that location while everyone in the studio shuddered with embarrassment. He simply couldn't play the opening riff the manner George wanted it, the way it had been on the demo. But that had been fabricated two years earlier by a friend of George's who lived round the corner and played sax for fun in the pub."[eighteen]

While the saxophonist appeared to exist playing the part perfectly, Michael told him, "No, it'south yet non right, y'all see..." and he would lower his caput to the talkback microphone and patiently hum the part to him all the same again. "Information technology has to twitch upwards a little simply there! See...? And not too much."[18]

Napier-Bong consulted with Wexler over Michael's dispute with the sax sound. "Is there really something George wants that'southward unlike from what the sax actor is playing?" Napier-Bell asked.[eighteen] "Definitely!" replied Wexler.

"I've seen things like this before. There'southward some tiny nuance that the sax player is somehow non getting right. Although you and I can't hear what it is, it may be the very thing that volition make the record a hitting. The success of pop records is and so ephemeral, so unbelievably unpredictable, we just tin can't take the risk of being impatient. But this sax actor'due south not going to go it, is he!"[18]

The version Wexler produced was released afterward in the year, as a (four:41) B-side "Special Version" on 12" in the Britain and Japan.

The record label Innervision was going to put out the Wexler version of "Devil-may-care Whisper" later on the Club Fantastic Megamix as early as 1983. Vocal publisher Dick Leahy said that while he could not stop the release of the Gild Fantastic Megamix, he could stop the release of this unmarried on the basis that as a publisher they "take the correct to grant the offset license of the recording of a tune of which he controls the copyright". He was unable to do anything well-nigh the Club Fantastic Megamix because it was already released material. He said: "Nosotros knew how big that song could be, so it was necessary to upset a few people to stop it."[19] Towards the cease of 1983, Michael was also committed to touring with Wham! to promote Fantastic, so according to him it would non have made sense to release "Careless Whisper" equally a solo single in the middle of the bout, despite it being office of the setlist.[20]

Michael later went back to London's Sarm West'southward Studio two to re-tape the track, the backbone of which was done with a live rhythm section in i take, with "loads of stuff bunged on [overdubbed] later on" as Michael added, although the feel of it was basically alive.[21] [22]

Michael elaborated on the song's product and how it turned out in the end:

"Jerry Wexler did one recording of "Careless Whisper" with me. And then nosotros re-mixed that, which meant re-shooting the video and then nosotros completely re-did the runway about iv weeks before it was due to be released. When we originally made it I was totally in awe of Jerry Wexler and it was the starting time fourth dimension that I had always felt like that about everyone that I'd worked with. Usually I accept trouble convincing myself that people know what they're doing. In this instance I had to get boozer in order to sing, I was and then nervous. Anyway, my publisher [Dick Leahy] and I had loads of discussions about whether the tape was practiced plenty for the song and whether in that location was enough of me in it because information technology just did not sound similar me. I said 'it's great. Jerry's washed a great job on information technology', and for the kickoff time since nosotros'd started I was blind to what was going on because the song was already two and a half years erstwhile and I just did non accept a inkling about where else I could take it. Eventually I but thought, 'sod this. I'm going to get in and exercise it as if it had never been washed before with the musicians we normally use and see what happens.' The track was much better because I was relaxed and I remember that our musicians did a much better chore than the Musculus Shoals section". [22]

After hiring and firing several other different sax players, for which the BBC characterized every bit struggling to play all the notes with "the right corporeality of fluidity and yet breathe,"[23] Michael somewhen heard what he was looking for from Steve Gregory.[24]

During an interview with DJ Danny Lord's day, Gregory said he was the 9th sax player to endeavor the riff. Gregory said Michael'due south secretary had phoned him upwards midday and asked him to give the solo a endeavour.[25]

"When I got there, it was about getting on to midnight, and there was another saxophone player in the studio, Ray Warleigh, who I knew quite well, and he said 'what are you doing here?' And George hadn't showed upwardly. So Ray was a bit fed up. He said 'Well I'm going, you can do information technology. I've had enough of waiting.' So he left and information technology was just myself, and (record producer) Chris Porter. So I said I've had quite a long day, I'm going to practise a better job now than I will at three o'clock in the morning, so can we try and do something? And then we went into the control room and George had already recorded it in LA with Jerry Wexler producing information technology and Tom Scott playing the saxophone line...he said this is what you got to do and he played this and I idea 'That is fantastic, why on Earth does he want to do it again? I can't play it likewise every bit that!' And (Porter) said 'Oh, it's a new version, he's done his own product, it'due south a new runway, information technology'southward got to exist re-washed, he just needs that on the new runway,' then I went in the studio I tried to do it and my saxophone is an one-time Selmer (tenor sax) from about 1954 or something and I didn't have that top note. I didn't have a proper note on my saxophone, I had what we call a fake fingering I had to do to play it. So it didn't really sound that smoothen. Information technology didn't audio that great. And and then having been effectually for a while, having had a bit of experience, I suggested to him, I said, 'look, if you lot took it downwards past a semitone, a very small amount, I'd accept all the proper notes on my horn and we could see how it sounds. And so that'southward what he did, he sort of did his calculations and took it down a semitone, so I went out again and I played it in a lower fundamental and when later I finished it I went back into the command room and he played information technology dorsum and he put it support to the proper speed, and as he was playing it back, George walked into the studio, and he said 'Oh, I call back we got information technology!' Then he pointed at me and said, 'Y'all are number 9!'"

The officially released single was issued in Baronial 1984, entering the United kingdom Singles Nautical chart at number 12. Within two weeks information technology was at number ane, ending a nine-week run at the top for "Two Tribes" past Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[iv] It stayed at number ane for three weeks, going on to become the fifth best-selling single of 1984 in the United Kingdom; outsold only by the two Frankie Goes to Hollywood tracks, "Two Tribes" and "Relax", Stevie Wonder with "I Merely Called to Say I Love Yous", and Band Assist's "Do They Know Information technology's Christmas?". The song as well topped the charts in 25 other countries, including the Billboard Hot 100 in the United states in February 1985 under the credit "Wham! featuring George Michael". Spending three weeks at the superlative in America, the vocal was subsequently named Billboard 's number-one song of 1985. The song was #one on the smooth radio top 500 songs of all fourth dimension chart – proving its iconic status.

Despite the success, Michael was never fond of the song. He said in 1991 that information technology "was not an integral office of my emotional evolution ... it disappoints me that you can write a lyric very flippantly—and not a particularly practiced lyric—and it can hateful so much to and then many people. That's disillusioning for a author."[19]

Music video [edit]

The official music video (which uses the shorter unmarried version instead of the full anthology version and was directed past Duncan Gibbins, who previously directed "Wake Me Upwards Before You Get-Go") shows the guilt felt by a human (portrayed past Michael) over an affair, and his acknowledgement that his partner (Lisa Stahl) is going to observe out. Madeline Andrews-Hodge plays the woman who lures George abroad. It was filmed on location in Miami, Florida, in February 1984[26] and features such locales as Kokosnoot Grove and Watson Island. The final part of the video shows Michael leaning out of a height floor balcony of Miami's Grove Towers.[27] [28]

A first original version of the video was edited with the Jerry Wexler 1983 version, and featured Andrew every bit a cameo, handing over a letter to a nighttime-haired George. This version had a more detailed storyline, only was then re-edited afterwards.[29]

Co-ordinate to producer Jon Roseman, product of the video was "A fucking disaster".[30] Co-ordinate to Michael's co-star Lisa Stahl, "They lost footage of our kissing scene and so we had to reshoot it, which I didn't complain about ... Then George decided he didn't similar his hair so he flew his sister over from England to cut it and we had to reshoot more scenes."[31]

As the band felt they had "screwed up" the video, further footage of Michael singing the vocal onstage was later on shot at the Lyceum Theatre, London.[30] The video functioning (1984 Version) was officially uploaded to George Michael YouTube channel on 24 October 2009. It has over 852 1000000 views as of 2022.

Rails listing [edit]

All tracks are written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.

7": Epic / A 4603 (United kingdom)
No. Title Length
1. "Careless Whisper" (Single Edit) 5:04
2. "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) 5:02
12": Epic / TA4603 (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
No. Championship Length
1. "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) vi:31
2. "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) v:02
12": Columbia / 44-05170 (US)
No. Title Length
1. "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) six:20
ii. "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) 4:52
12": Columbia Promotional / AS-1980 (US)
No. Championship Length
one. "Devil-may-care Whisper" four:50
2. "Devil-may-care Whisper" four:fifty
12" maxi: Epic / QTA 4603 (Britain) – Special Edition
No. Championship Length
1. "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Extended Mix) half-dozen:31
2. "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Jerry Wexler Special Version) v:34
3. "Careless Whisper" (Condensed Instrumental Version) 4:52
  • Note: The Extended Mix is identical to the album version from Make Information technology Big.

Credits and personnel [edit]

  • George Michael – lead and backing vocals
  • Andrew Ridgeley – acoustic guitar (uncredited)
  • Steve Gregory – saxophone
  • Deon Estus – bass
  • Trevor Murrell – drums[nb 1]
  • Chris Parren – keyboards
  • Anne Dudley – keyboards [33]
  • Hugh Burns – electric guitar
  • Danny Cummings – percussion

Credits adapted from the Extended Mix's liner notes.[34]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

"Careless Whisper" has been covered by many other artists. Among the well-nigh significant versions are:

  • Sarah Washington on a trip the light fantastic toe version that peaked at number 45 on the United kingdom Singles Chart (1993).[93]
  • 2Play produced a cover version in 2004. It charted at number 29 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[94]
  • Kamasi Washington and El Debarge performed information technology to pay tribute to George Michael at the 2017 BET Awards.[95]
  • South African alternative stone ring Seether covered the song on their 2007 album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces. It charted at number 63 in the US.[96]
  • Dutch rapper Lil' Kleine sampled the chorus for his song, titled "Dansen", on his most recent album Ibiza Stories.[97]
  • Saxophonist Dave Koz recorded a cover version for his 1999 album The Dance, featuring Montell Hashemite kingdom of jordan on lead vocals; in 2000 the song peaked at number 30 on Billboard'southward adult gimmicky chart.[98]

See also [edit]

  • List of best-selling singles in the United Kingdom
  • Listing of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s
  • List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1984
  • List of number-ane singles of 1984 (Ireland)
  • List of number-i hits of 1984 (Switzerland)
  • List of number-one singles from the 1980s (UK)
  • List of RPM number-1 singles of 1985
  • List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985 (U.South.)
  • List of number-ane adult contemporary singles of 1985 (U.Due south.)

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  1. ^ The proper name of Wham!'s drummer was Trevor Murrell.[32] He is listed on the liner notes every bit Trevor Morrell.

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External links [edit]

  • Careless Whisper sheet music PDF

morenodozedilitry.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_Whisper

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