When was turn the beat around written

Peter Jackson's] work as a session drummer, and it was at Associated Studios that Touch of Class cut its own demos. Peter Jackson recalls that one Sunday at noontime "I called Al and said He was leaving at four You have to be done [by then].

Garrison's girlfriend turned out to be singer Vicki Sue Robinson whose debut album was nearing completion requiring one additional track.

The lyrics move too fast. You have that jungle beat in there. Robinson recorded "Turn the Beat Around" on September 26, cutting her lead vocal in a single take after recording her own multi-tracked chorale vocals.

I listened to it in my office and I just couldn't get it. It had been such a bad week that I just couldn't hear anything with an open mind. Then David Todd, the head of disco promotion at RCA, came into my office and he went crazy over the track! He convinced me to finish it as soon as possible. Issued as a single in February "Turn the Beat Around" became a club smash subsequently breaking on Top 40 radio in Boston - where it would reach 1 that June - to make a gradual ascent on the national Pop chart: the Billboard Hot to reach a 10 peak in August Laura Branigan covered the song in becoming the first major artist to do so.

It was released as the third and final single from her self-titled sixth studio album , however only to radio and clubs. The song was co-produced by Branigan and Steve Lindsey for the album, with several remix versions following garnering significant play in Hi-NRG clubs. In see in music , the song was recorded by Gloria Estefan for the soundtrack to the film The Specialist. She also sang the song as her opening performance in VH1's first ever Divas Live. She also took the song to the top spot on Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it her first number-one song on that chart in English.

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