Put Your Records On
February 20, 2006
" Put Your Records On " (Eng.: Put on your favorite records on ) is a song by British singer Corinne Bailey Rae from their debut album " Corinne Bailey Rae " from the year 2006 The Soul / pop song was the second single from the album and was. sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
Genesis & Production
Together with the involved also in the production of producer Steve Chrisanthou and John Beck Corinne Bailey Rae wrote in 2005, the song, which was released as the second single from their debut album " Corinne Bailey Rae " on 20 February 2006. It was recorded in London in several studios including John Ellis 's Place, Olympic Studios, Taxlight and The Idle Studio.
In addition to Corinne Bailey Rae, who grossed the vocals, acoustic guitar and percussion, the song by Steve Chrisanthou Joe Tatton ( Hammond organ ), Jason Rae was ( electric guitar, Spanish guitar, brass & percussion ), John Beck ( keyboards), ( Alto Saxophone), Jim Corry (tenor sax ), Malcolm Strachan (trumpet ) and Samuel Dixon ( bass) was added.
Harmonic Analysis
In " Put your records on" jazz elements with the clear structure of pop music are connected. The song is to be classified ( using inversions, Septnonakkorden, minor subdominant, shortened double dominants and Medicare antique) as upscale pop composition because of its harmonic content.
Music Video
The official music video was filmed by British director Sam Brown and published in 2006. In two-thirds of the video, the singer is to see how she does a bike ride through a forest or park with some friends. Corinne Bailey Rae then travels forward path and singing while the song, the audience a positive, happy mood is thereby suggested. In the last third of the video is then only the singer can be seen alone, as she wanders through a field singing and nature.
Charts & Awards
In addition to numerous top 100 rankings worldwide made it the song in September 2006 in England No. 2 in the singles chart. In Germany the song reached number 75 in November 2006 and was able to hold 100 singles chart in the Top 9 weeks.
Overall, the song has sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S. The song received gold status.
In 2007, " Put Your Records On " was nominated in the categories " Song of the Year " and " Record of the Year " Grammy.