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Home > On Record - Other Artists
Here are listed tracks written by Brian Spence and performed by other artists.
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4 Play A London-based 4 piece vocal group that Brian discovered in a Karaoke
bar. Brian met Jamie there and thought that his voice was right
for a couple of songs he had written.
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Michael Ball - One Careful Owner
The four tracks are shown below and are basically Brian Spence tracks but with another singer doing the vocals.Brian not only penned the tracks he also played guitar, keyboards, did backing vocals as well as produced. In addition, three of the tracks can not be found any where else. Other appearance on the Brian Spence produced tracks are Colin Chisholm (Bilbo and Chisholm & Spence) and Debbie. The single releases also contain remixes.
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Brian old partner in Bilbo Baggins and Chisholm and Spence release a single, which also appeared on the album "Hibernian FC: Glory Glory to the Hibees", called "Hibs' Heroes". Brian wrote and joint produced the track with Colin. According to Fatty, of Fatty and Baldy, (fans of Hibernian Football Club) "I believe they were commissioned to write and record the song by former (disgraced - he later went to jail) chairman David Duff - indeed the original record was released on Duff Records. The original song was revised in 1990 when a proposed takeover of Hibs was mooted." The credits on the single include titles sung by Colin Chisholm, Produced by Chisholm and Spence, Recorded at Scrapyard, Leyton, London, Published by Clermiston Music Ltd. and Special thanks to David Duff. A post note to this is that Colin recorded another football related track for another Edinburgh team, Hearts Of Midlothian, called "Hearts Songs". Brian was not involved in this recording (as far as I am aware - so if you know differently please let me know).
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and Fax-U
Later, Brian and Debbie worked with Steve Khan on a joint project covering Shirley Bassie’s "I Who have Nothing" under the moniker of "Fax-U featuring Debbie McKenna". On the promotional single there was three versions of the song. The recording was distributed around Europe and made it in to the dance charts. They later obtained the help of an Asian Music company who release the three different versions of the track onto three different compilation dance music albums that were released to the Australasian market. To read the article written by Steve Khan, Ocean Deep, on his work
with Brian click on the following link. Read
Ocean Deep |
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The single was released in Germany, Mexico, Denmark, France and the UK as well as Sweden, Yugosalvia and New Zealand. The release of any western music in Yugoslavia was a rarity at the time as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the eastern Soviet states was still 9 years away.
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The recording was typical of the time, similar to OMD and A Flock of Seagulls, but no real get up and go, no emotion. I didn't make the UK charts. |
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Brian was involved in this track as one of the backing singers, along with Lance Ellington (who also did backing vocals for Michael Ball on some of his live gigs) plus Katy Setterfield who won “The One and Only” TV show as Dusty Springfield . Those of you who like remixes, will probably want to get a copy of Dusty's Reputation single, which contains the standard version plus a "lots of fun 12" mix" and "rep u dub 2" mix. |
On
their 
On
the right is the cover from the Yugoslavian sleeve with Derek, Kenny,
Stuart and Jerry. Thanks to Steve from the Netherlands for bring
this item to my attention and sending me scans of the cover. Steve
also asked me if Bilbo Baggins were involved in the cover picture
of a single by Neville Wanker and the Punters. After asking Brian
and Alan Davison of Lightning Records, both denying the link (although
Brian thought the name was good). It turns out that the people where
for another band called Bilbo Baggins, who were based in Liverpool.
Way
back after Chisholm and Spence but before Brian went solo (in 1984
to be correct) Brian wrote a track which a band called The Mood
recorded and released as a single called "I Don't Need Your
Love Now".
Mad
German, who covered one of Bilbo's successes, "
Page Last Updated: 4th March 2010
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