Murray Head ~ One Night In Bangkok/Chess Medley 1984 Disco Purrfection Version
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2017
- After 1982's "The Visitors" ABBA quietly faded away while buzz developed over the projects each of the members pursued individually. Frida was first out of the gate with the Phil Collins produced "I Know There's Something Going On" peaking at #13 in the spring of 83, then Agnetha put out the sleek and sexy "Can't Shake Loose" that August which barely made the top 30 peaking at #29 that fall. There were rumblings that Benny and Bjorn were working on something big, a musical with Tim Rice which ate up all their time from 1983 and most of 1984. The story involves a Cold War era chess match between the US master and Russian master and their battle for the love of a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. A concept album was released in 1984 featuring Murray Head, Tommy Körberg, Elaine Paige, Barbara Dickson and Denis Quilley. Head (Say It Ain't So, Joe) was tapped to play the American chess master and became the vocalist on "One Night In Bangkok", a contemptuous look at the famed city. Murray Head (born March 5, 1946 in London, England) was found to be a musical genius while he was still in his childhood. Writing songs from that time on, he was signed to CBS in the UK by the mid-60's. Joe Wissert who had produced the 1967 #1 pop hit "Happy Together" for The Turtles and Helen Reddy's chart topping story of mystery, "Angie Baby" in 1974. In 1972 Wissert produced Murray's first LP, Nigel Lives". By that time Murray had already recorded the main theme of "Superstar", from the runaway Broadway hit "Jesus Christ Superstar" in 1970. The WWWW radio station in Detroit used to play the Broadway cast recordings on Good Friday, between 12 and 3 PM. Murray's showstopping number became a #14 1971 pop hit in the US. In 1978, he was drawn to my attention by college radio via his rock opus "Say It Ain't So" 1975 LP. The song seemed to be a scathing review of Bangkok's nightlife, was sung by Head in the middle of Act I. It created some controversy with Thailand as it apparently demeaned the city with the lyrics "you've seen one crowded polluted city" and "you can go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours". Thailand's Mass Communications Organization banned "One Night in Bangkok", saying its lyrics "can cause misunderstanding about Thai society and shows disrespect towards Buddhism." It found spots on the top 3 singles charts in many countries around the world, and did peak at #3 in the US in early 1985. The extended version cut out the original recorded intro of an orchestral piece called "Bangkok". It was never long enough for me and Ive been working on it little by little since 2010 but it finally came together tonight in 3 hours. The album was a worldwide smash but theatrical productions were not as successful and several rewrites of the play have not been able to translate the drama of the US/Russian conflict into something everyone can relate to. "One Night In Bangkok" was also a club hit, peaking at #5 disco/dance in 1985. That is Per Lindvall from Sweden on drums here.
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I really enjoy your work. You got great taste. You're very smart. You treat the song with the greatest respect and care. You know when to stretch, and know when to pull back. My favorite is your mix if Riding With The Wind. If done correctly, thay song could go on all day and night. I love the second half of the song with the Broadway singing. Bjorn and Benny would be proud.
Christopher Casey you said it!
Christopher Casey the dervishly swirling chaotic strings intro which always captivated, drawing dancers like performers to the dance floor (DJ Offer Nissim used to open his sets effectively using the intro like a mad conductor, bit I digress), tho w/the intro gone we're mixed directly into the tribal beat that underscores the underlying savagery of the deceptive beauty of the rest of the score, the Chess competition which alluded to the flexing of super powers, that today play at understanding detente, adding there's no hiding the world's understanding of "One Night in Bankok" even w/o it being said aloud. The most brilliant moment of DJDCV2 mix here is the insertion the haunting filtered Chess medley towards the end before Murray Heads poking vocals get one last go round. I picked up the promo 12" back in the day, and while the sonics were a better, was disappointed it was neither extended nor remixed to take advantage of the extra bandwidth gained. Thank you DJDCV2 for this gift!
Sorry it took so long to get back, but here I am! thank you for the kind
words, they mean a lot to me. I hope I can continue keeping you
entertained and mystified. love DJDC
Christopher Casey 🐒☯️☣️
Thanks again 😱
Goosebumps!!!song!!!
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Great Song ❤❤❤
Yessssss...the absolute Number One in my life...i am 51...all what comes is nothing...this is epic!!!!...for the rest of my life...greetings from germany and peace for all mankind...thank you...LG Mark
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Oh yess, I remember this Dance Masterpiece, in the Disco 🕺, Dance Floor 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌, love ❤️ it, and this remix is EPIC 💯🗽🇨🇺🇺🇸
Whenever I'm traveling to Bangkok, it's impossible not to sing this song along the way!
Love it 2023
After years of searching this remix I finally found it and it's one of the best mixed songs ever
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There is no world without music.....Illusion of silence might be the devil herself. This is the icecream melting before you can eat it.
Un Clásico temazo dé esté Genio Creador.
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My Family were Pro Roller Skaters When we were Teenagers!!! Your music won Skating
Tournaments For Us!!! I used to hear your music and just BLOW UP Roller Rinks!!! DEEPEST
Thanks to the DJ Disco Cat!!!! You Are The Man With The PLAN!!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!!
Wow, what a coincidence! My Pro Roller Skaters were Teenagers when we were Family!
every written bullshit is good to collect the thumbs on YT.
Still love this song. Heard when I was about 8 in the late 80s and was hooked, just so catchy it stays with ya. And this version....perfect 👌
Same but I was about 12 at the time
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There's a very special kind of flashback I encounter when people upload rare edits (i.e. extended or full length versions) of childhood songs. There were a few radio stations who actually played these longer ones and you only heard them in one year or so, thereafter they were gone. Now you find those on YT and your mind beams back to a point in your childhood that was already felt like it vanished from your memory. The magic music does...
God bless you and your incredible mixes
Izzy love's disco 🎸 💘 Enjoy 1984.
"I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine!"
I'm somewhat active on chess.com, where I once played a blitz game against a Chinese woman with "sunshine" in her username, and I quoted this line to her. She friended me, and about 4-5 days later, she unfriended me after the huge hit to her social profile index. You're getting a hit just reading this.
Get Thai-ed!
Best line
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🔥 Super HOT 🔥
And as always
FABULOUS vídeo description
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Love this high quality, highly produced disco banger.
I👱♀️👍Liked This Song! 🎵🎵🎤😎🎵
Remembered It .Wen u Mentioned it ,Rite here. I always Heard it in the Radio📻👍😊😊. All The Time. A Great Song!👍👍🎵🎵😎🎤🎵🎵📻
LOVE THIS SONG!💖🎶👍
You Out did yourself this Time . . AWESOME 😎😉😁
Bangkok, oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change, don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
It's Iceland or the Philippines or Hastings
Or... or this place!
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a God in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the God's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother
(It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity)
(To be looking at the board, not looking at the city)
What d'ya mean?!
You seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
(Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet)
(Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite)
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
One night in Bangkok make's a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would
A muddy old river or reclining Buddha
Thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it
I don't see you guys rating
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlors
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a God in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok make's a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
Thank you very much for the lyrics!!
Beautiful lyrics..,. 🙏
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20th Mai 2023 STILL a GREAT SONG!!❤️
I remember listening to it while showering with gf in our Bangkok hotel.
Did she have a surprise for you ;)
@@jmozart198 just as in the lyrics:
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
@@aujourd8 It would seem there is not much between despair and ecstasy XD
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If ur lucky she was a she...
Brillante interpretación... Otra de las grandes canciones de los 80 que me siguen encantando.
Absolute Perfection. I'm in love with this song
"Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change, don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue"
- Got to give a little bow of respect to Tim and Björn for coming up with lyrics like these. 🙏🙇♂
(Edited to correct the lyricists names)
My favourite was always “tea girls, warm and sweet / some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite.”
Very clever
@@JudgeHill Yes indeed - it took me a long time to decode that verse from audio tracks. And, given Maugham's proclivities, it's probably a pun on T-girls...
Lyrics by Tim Rice, but Björn did contribute to some of the lyrics too
@@JF-sh2smMy Bad! Lyrics credited to Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus while Benny and Björn were the composers. Thanks for the correction.
Great remix, I love this song, it has so many double entendres! Plus I was very lucky to have visited Thailand for a week when I was only (19) years old and single. Many happy memories and good times.
What a performance..!!
What an excellent piece of artistry
So good. 38 years of age. Beer in hand. Baby with mum at the front of the house lol. Me here playinh dj cat. Too good. Love from New Zealand
*You'll find a god in every golden cloister...* 80 haters, you all should be ashamed for pushing the 'dislike' button on this great DJDCV2 mix!
Súper súper. Murray Head esta mezcla de one nigh i'm Bank kock
I'd been vaguely digging this song for years but there was this one line I just couldn't make out. It wasn't until the Internet era and the widespread availability of lyrics websites that I finally figured it out... "some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite". Once I read that--boom! I got the pun, the innuendo, and the literary reference all in one go.
Ditto. That was quite clever.
Siam, gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.
Lo mejor de lo mejor😊😊❤️❤️❤️😘😍😍😍😍😍80ssssss
One of the greatest songs in the world ..great great version
Murray ochentero + hip hop sonido increible! Cracias × compartir
The memories your mixes bring out are simply addicting!
The original was superb. How do these guys continue to excel and produce this masterpiece
The artist had talent, and the producer knew what he was doing. Whoever signed them was a genius.
@@joelbaldwin2043 it was ABBA
It's amazing
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The flute part sounded real lush and organic...
The guy who does these mixes has a gift in his work. Iove this channel
Murray head 4-ever !
Raridade 80's👍
Found it . THANK YOU 💖💖💋
Okay beautiful song 🎹🎹🎵🎶🎷🎸🎺🎤🎙👀👏👍
Feeling nostalgic brought me here
Lol. I love this song. I have never heard this version. Awesome. ❤😊
Cat you are the best..
Tremendo tema que lindo recuerdo.
The version is purfect
This was always one of my favorite songs and I'm a huge ABBA fan but it never occurred to me there was a connection!
Same here... ABBA? Really??? LOL
I loved this song when it came out 35 years ago, but just now realized the ABBA connection with Benny and Bjorn!!!!
CHESS musical by ABBA members!
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Wish I was young again and back in Thailand.
Really great...thx ever so
Suuuper buena buenísima versión, Dios te bendiga por compartir 👍 muchos abrazos y bendiciones 😇🎶🔊
DiscoCat I was purring throughout this tune, great mix..Meow 🌞
Nice shot!!! checkmate!
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I was raised in Newark NJ (95% black) and moved to Portland Oregon (95% white) and something thats very different about the second hand vinyl shops here is you'll find gems like THIS (regular/album versions) and the prices are LOW, the people here have never heard of any legendary 1970/1980's night clubs (except Studio 54) so tracks like this looked over for the "Bargain Bins". I WAS SOOO HAPPY when i found this, Too Happy 🎧 😎👍🎚️🎛️🎛️🎚️
Um, what does "95% black" and "95% white" have to do with this????
@@williamsimmons2466 Musical Taste : here everything that's not Rock /Country/Rap is labeled: Electronica/Techno/Disco . I've shopped a ton in NYC/NJ record shops and then in Portland, the spots in the record bins where the different genres are, are labeled different, Very Differently too.
Love! Love and more love!! Thank you
Praise long work road trips and soundhound. I heard this passing through a little town while flipping through stations and it made me laugh so I had to save it. So glad I found it, this is amazing
Wow i remember its song, I 14 Years
One of my favourite hit song 33 years ago...Awesome mixed! DJDiscoCatV2 Bravo!!!
Ya la respeto y la amo.mi querido.Dj.discocat.Porfa.mas de estás mil gracias.
I am a dj and i just heard this It is Awesome
Oh god! I forgot about this one. What a welcome surprise 😻😹😹
Super Brilliant on This Music I Love it
"I can feel the devil 😈 walking next to me" . "I can feel an angel 👼 sliding up to me".
Nicely said sometimes I feel the same way. Lol
Once again a grand remix 🎼🎼🎼✌️✌️DiscoCat.❤️thanx
5 Stars ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
This hit by Murray Head got me totally reinforced in my interest in the 1980’s, alongside I Like Chopin by Gazebo, FGTH Relax and Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love.
And, there's no better feeling than being "totally reinforced". Otherwise, life is a just a drag, a bore, really such a pity,
I came to the conclusion that your channel is the best channel of all youtube! thank you for all those purrfect versions of classic hits!
absolutely the high of tonite this is a real classic
Absolutely great !!
Me encantaba éste tema , gracias.
(2020.aug.07)
Wow! This was extended without a flaw, and i oughta say, Hats Off to you!
Best regards,
Franz Ferdinand VIII
The people involved would love to hear that.
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SUPERB BOARD WORK!
Fantastic Song!!!!!!!!!
This is a great song. Got a little bit of everything. The rap is cold. I don't care what anybody thinks.👍🏿
*Murray Head w/the BB's from ABBA* Nicely done DJDCV2!
2022 and still a banger!
Great Song
Sensacional, sin.palabras exeĺente musica
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Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant PAPACAT!! You truly are the best of the best!
UNTOUCHABLE...!! Big Hugs 🍸💋
Beautiful!
very very good.
I can feel the devil walking next to me...
But also: I can feel an angel sliding up to me...
Loved this song... No way in Hell I'd go there though! Holler🙌
What man is wise enough to tell which is next to him?
Exelent mix ! BigUp DJ DiscoCat
Absolutely well done. There is no doubt you have the talent for extending this pop tune.
Awesome touch, wih the extra music in there sounds awesome❤😊
Temazo de los años 80.
I always wanted a little more of the "tea girls" section of the song, and you delivered! thanks, truly boss
"Yeah, I was in the chess club." -Todd Howard
Wow! I listened to this song on the radio, with the orchestra intro, and I even taped it (1985-ish) on my first Sony audiotape, normal bias- remember thaaaat?!?!?!?
Again DJ DiscoCat, thanks for the memories and an excellent remix!
Wow this takes me back to Illusions in Atlanta in the mid 80's. Thanks for the memories.
When you travel at that level, there's no ordinary venue. It's Iceland, or the Philipines or Hastings. Or, or Atlanta!
I can feel the devil walking next to me...
very very good.
The guy who does these mixes has a gift in his work. Iove this channel
"I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine!"
Whata amazing soangs fantastic
Great I love this
Awesome Remix Version of this Song!!!:)
Really like that.song very soft
Thank you so much for this. so frickin good
Thank you. 🌠