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Rockmelons - Tales Of The City

Rockmelons - Tales Of The City

Musician: Rockmelons
Album title: Tales Of The City
Style: Disco, Synth-pop, Funk, Soul
Released: 1988
Country: Australia
Size MP3 version: 1602 mb
Size APE version: 1375 mb
Size WMA version: 1607 mb
Rating ✫: 4.7
Votes: 736
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Genre: Electronic / Funk / Soul / Pop

Rockmelons - Tales Of The City


Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 New Groove
A2 What's It Gonna Be?
A3 Jump
Lead Vocals [Guest Lead Vocals] – Wendy MatthewsWritten-By – Curtis Mayfield
A4 Thief
A5 Dreams In The Empty City
B1 Get Back On The Groove
B2 Rhymes
Written-By – Al Green
B3 Boogie Tron
B4 Money Talks
Mixed By – Adrian Bolland, The Rockmelons

Companies, etc.

  • Record Company – EMI Music Group Australasia
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Truetone Records
  • Copyright (c) – Truetone Records
  • Manufactured By – EMI Music Group Australasia
  • Distributed By – EMI Music Group Australasia
  • Recorded At – EMI Studios 301

Credits

  • Backing Vocals – Danny deCosta, Karen Boddington, Mark Williams , Mary Azzopardi, Wendy Matthews
  • Cover – Libby Blainey
  • Dulcimer [Electric Dulcimer], Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Programmed By [Programming], Talkbox [Voice Box] – Jonathon Jones
  • Effects [Fx], Performer [T.v.], Vocoder – Raymond Medhurst
  • Engineer – Adrian Bolland (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4), Barry Rudolph (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
  • Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Adrian Bolland (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2), Colin Simkins (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
  • Keyboards – Vincent Dale
  • Keyboards, Vocoder, Backing Vocals, Programmed By [Programming] – Bryon Jones
  • Lead Vocals – John Kenny
  • Mastered By – Leon Zervos
  • Mixed By – Jim Taig (tracks: A3 to A5, B1, B3)
  • Producer – Robin Smith (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2), The Rockmelons (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
  • Producer [Production Assistance] – Robert Racic (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
  • Sleeve [Inner Sleeve By] – Matthew Martin
  • Written-By – B. Jones* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B3, B4), J. Jones* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B3, B4), R. Medhurst* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B4), R. Smith* (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B4)

Notes

Released in an outer sleeve, and an inner sleeve with credits on one side. Inner sleeve has cartoon panels drawn by Matthew Martin: side with credits has a panel for each song; the other side has a series of three panels titled "A Rockmelon...", with a bird wearing a hat and glasses and holding a cane which breaks out of a rockmelon.
Side A label is orange with the True Tone logo on top of this. True Tone logo comprises the label name in silver over a green diamond. The label name has a black shadow, and the green diamond has a light green "shadow". The side A label has the tracklisting, writing credits and matrix no.s for both sides A and B.
Side B label has a stylised drawing of a rockmelon with a slice cut out of it. There is no text on it.
In the runout matrix no.s, "LEON" is underlined on both sides. In the runout matrix no. on side A, "MASTERED BY STUDIOS 301" is stamped, all other characters are hand-etched.

Outer and inner sleeves:
Manufactured and distributed by the EMI Music Group Australasia
℗ & © 1988 TRUE TONE

Side A label:
THIS SIDE
(P) & (C) 1988 True Tone
THAT SIDE
(P) & (C) 1988 True Tone
Recorded at 301 Studios, Sydney, Australia

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text On Rear Sleeve): 0 77779 02971 6
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): TLP 790297A
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): TLP 790297B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout Groove Hand-Etched And Stamped): TLP790297-A-2 LEON MASTERED BY STUDIOS 301
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout Groove Hand-Etched): TLP790297-B-2 LEON

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
81949-2 The Rockmelons Tales Of The City ‎(CD, Album) Atlantic 81949-2 US 1988
7 81949-4, 81949-4 The Rockmelons Tales Of The City ‎(Cass, Album) Atlantic, Atlantic 7 81949-4, 81949-4 US 1988
7 81949-4 The Rockmelons Tales Of The City ‎(Cass, Album) WEA 7 81949-4 Indonesia 1988
D19567 The Rockmelons Tales Of The City ‎(CD, Album) Mushroom D19567 Australia 1992
TC TLP 790297 The Rockmelons Tales Of The City ‎(Cass, Album) EMI, True Tone TC TLP 790297 Australia 1988



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