Philadelphia based Pretty Poison broke with Catch Me I'm Falling. But they actually had a string of single releases and ep.'s before that. NIGHTIME NIGHTIME DUB CATCH ME
There's download stuff sprinkles all throughout this post.
a pretty zip
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I love Jade Starling's vocals, their look was very big hair 80's. Here's her MySpace
I'm enclosing a zip which features several versions of Nightime including the totally electrifying dub and the Shep Pettibone Mix and their huge #8 hit from 1987 Catch Me. And another zip which contains a funky version of Nightime entitled In the Heat of the Night. The original 12" release made it up to #14 dance in 1984. Catch Me took it up to #1 and then the re-release with new mixes of Nightime peaked at #13 in 1988. I didn't really follow their other releases though When I Look into Your Eyes squeaked out a Top 10 dance spot in 1988 too.
Here are the lyrics to Nightime:
Come, feel the steady rhythm of the nightlife
And hear excitement in the air.Baby, when the night comes down,
You know where I can be found,
Dancing in a midnight fantasy.
Chorus:
In the Nightime
Blame it on the Nightime.
In the Nightime
Baby, that's the right time.
I feel a strange desire in the moonlight
Dreams of another dance in my eyes.
Baby, when the stars shine bright,
Dance with me all through the night.
Be my lover til the light of day.
Chorus:
In the Nightime,
Blame it on the Nightime.
In the Nightime yeah,
Baby, that's the right time.
Right time for me.
Nightime is the right time
Nightlife is for me.
Dancing til the break of day,
No place I'd rather be.
Nightime is the right time;
Nightlife is for me.
Dancing til the break of day,
No place I'd rather be.
In the Nightime, blame it on the Nightime.
In the Nightime, baby, that's the right time.
In the Nightime, blame it on the Nightime.
In the Nightime, yeah, baby, that's the right time.
Right time for me.
Nightime is the right time
Nightlife is for me
Nightime is the right time
Nightlife is for me
Nightime
Nightlife is for me.
All in all it's a sound I can really appreciate. Not quite freestyle, not quite electro and not really house either. It's a unique record and is clearly influenced by many sounds at the same time. When it was originally released on Svengali in 1983 it went pretty much unnoticed and under the radar. It took the more commercial sounding Catch Me to give Nightime it's second life. Here I've enclosed their entire Laced e.p. from 1983. It's sort of new wave and not quite as straightforward dance as their later releases. If you click on the title of this blog you will be directed to my ebay listing for this collectible e.p. LACED EP
| A1 | Seal It With A Kis | 3:57 | ||
| A2 | Let Freedom Ring | 6:15 | ||
| B1 | Expiration | 3:59 | ||
| B2 | Tempest Nightmare | 5:15 |
Their first single from 1981 is very rare and very new wave. It's called Gimme Gimme (your autograph). It was on the label Poison Pops and was only released as a 7" single.
I'm adding their goth single from 1982 No Tears and it's b side.
And finally their goth single Expiration from 1983. A real Kennel club Philadelphia classic.
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