- Sat in Your Lap
Infobox Single
Name = Sat in Your Lap
Caption = Single cover
Artist =Kate Bush
from Album = The Dreaming
B-side = "Lord of the Reedy River " (Donovan)
Released =21 June 1981 (UK)
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:19
Label =EMI
Writer =Kate Bush
Producer = Kate Bush
Certification =
Last single = "December Will Be Magic Again "
(1980)
This single = "Sat in Your Lap"
(1981)
Next single = "The Dreaming"
(1982)
Misc ="Sat in Your Lap" was the first song to be released from "The Dreaming" by
Kate Bush . It was issued 13 months prior to the album because "The Dreaming" was nowhere near completion and EMI needed a release from Bush to keep up public interest in her and her music. [ [http://gaffa.org/cloud/music/sat_in_your_lap.html Cloudbusting / Music / Sat In Your Lap (Album Re-Mix) ] ]The track was released on
June 21 1981 and peaked at number 11 in theUK Singles Chart . Its subject is man's endless search for knowledge, which is often limited by his unwillingness to devote the effort necessary to attain it. Musically, it was faster and more percussive than Bush's previous releases. [Lorne Murdoch (1985). "Kate Bush". "Record Collector (December 1985, No. 76)": p.22]The demo version of "Sat in Your Lap" contains an extra verse at the start which was later cut out of the song probably because it didn't fit with the song. As with subsequent singles from the album a
12" single was to be issued but was eventually withdrawn.The B-side to the single was Bush's cover of "Lord of the Reedy River" by
Donovan . It was her first recording of a song that she had not written herself.Charts
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