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MARI WILSON – SHOWPEOPLE LP – Nr MINT UK 1983 POP SOUL JUST WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED

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Mari Wilson – Showpeople
(Compact Organisation Records  1983  COMP2)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Mari Macmillan Ramsay Wilson (born 29 September 1954, Neasden, London) is a British pop and jazz singer. She is best known for her 1982 UK top-10 hit single “Just What I Always Wanted” and her 1960s image complete with beehive hairstyle.

Showpeople is the debut album by UK singer Mari Wilson. It was released in 1983 and featured her breakthrough hit “Just What I Always Wanted”.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Teddy Johns, except where indicated.

UK edition

Side one

  1. “Wonderful (To Be With)” (4.35)
  2. “The End of the Affair” (5.16)
  3. “One Day Is a Lifetime” (4.28)
  4. “Dr Love” (3.30)
  5. “Remember Me” (3.46)
  6. “Cry Me a River” (Arthur Hamilton) (3.26)

Side two

  1. “Just What I Always Wanted” (3.29)
  2. “This Time Tomorrow” (Tot Taylor) (3.01)
  3. “Are You There (With Another Girl)” (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (4.40)
  4. “I May Be Wrong” (3.21)
  5. “Ecstasy” (3.40)
  6. “This Is It?” (6.01)

Personnel

  • Tony Mansfield – producer
  • Andrew Powell – producer and arrangement on “Cry Me a River”
  • Teddy Johns – string arrangements
  • Tommy Masefield – programmer
  • Colin Ryan – guitar, bass
  • Mark Cunningham – bass
  • Paul Bultitude – drums
  • Keith Airey – strums and lead guitar
  • Rocky Holman – piano
  • Tot Taylor – backing vocals, piano, vibraphone, harp, clavichord, percussion, samples
  • Stewart Curtis – saxophone
  • Oscar Morse – saxophone
  • Lester Moses – saxophone on “Dr. Love”
  • Christopher Smith – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Anne Stephenson, Virginia Hewes – violin
  • Hank B Hive, Jenny Hallet, John Cogan, Julia Fordham, Mari Wilson, Melvyn J Taub – backing vocals
Weight 1.00000000 kg

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