Warm Leatherette (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Warm Leatherette
Type = Album
Artist = Grace Jones


Released = 1980
Recorded =
Genre = R&B, New Wave, Reggae, Soul
Length = LP 39:04
Cassette/CD: 46:40
Label = Island Records
Producer = Chris Blackwell, Alex Sadkin
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rjuvad1kv8w2 link]
Last album = "Muse"
1979
This album = "Warm Leatherette"
1980
Next album = "Nightclubbing"
1981

"Warm Leatherette" is the fourth studio album by Grace Jones. Released in 1980, "Warm Leatherette" was the first of three albums produced by Chris Blackwell at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. The album included covers of songs by the Normal, the Pretenders, Roxy Music, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty and Jacques Higelin.
After the commercial success of "Nightclubbing" Island Records re-released the "Warm Leatherette" album with new artwork, replacing Jean-Paul Goude's original black-and-white studio portrait with pictures of Grace in performance taken from her groundbreaking 1981/82 tour "A One Man Show".
Most current Compact Disc editions include the longer or extended 12" mixes of selected tracks that originally appeared on the so-called "1+1" chrome audio cassette; side one consisting of the regular album and side two of five alternate versions.

Track listing

ide A

# "Warm Leatherette" (Daniel Miller) - 4:25 (Cassette/CD - 5:38)
# "Private Life" (Chrissie Hynde) - 5:10 (Cassette/CD - 6:19)
# "A Rolling Stone" (Deniece Williams, Fritz Baskett, Grace Jones) - 3:30
# "Love is the Drug" (Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay) - 7:15 (Cassette/CD - 8:41)

ide B

# "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Smokey Robinson) - 3:50 (Cassette/CD - 6:45)
# "Bullshit" (Barry Reynolds) - 5:20
# "Breakdown" (Tom Petty) - 5:30
# "Pars" (Jacques Higelin) - 4:05 (Cassette/CD - 4:44)

Personnel

* Wally Badarou - Keyboards
* Chris Blackwell - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
* Mikey Chung - Guitar
* Sly Dunbar - Drums
* Jean-Paul Goude - Artwork
* Grace Jones - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
* Barry Reynolds - Guitar
* Alex Sadkin - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
* Robbie Shakespeare - Guitar (Bass)
* Kendal Stubbs - Assistant Engineer
* Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - Percussion

ingles

"A Rolling Stone"

*UK 7" single (1980)
#"A Rolling Stone" - 3:30
#"Sinning" - 4:16

*UK 7" promo (1980)
#"A Rolling Stone" - 3:30
#"Sinning" - 4:16

*UK 12" single (1980) 12WIP 6591
#"A Rolling Stone" (Extended ) 5:39
#"Sinning" - 5:05

"Love Is The Drug"

*US 7" single (1980)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16

*FR 7" single (1980) 6010 179
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:08

*GE 7" single (1980) 101.819
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16

*SP 7" single (1980) 101.819
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16

*CL 7" single (1980)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Edit) - 4:40
#"Sinning" - 4:16

*GE 12" single (1980) 600 198
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 8:40
#"Sinning" - 4:10

*GE 12" single (1986)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 8:40
#"Sinning" - 4:10
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - 7" Edit) 3:42
#"Living My Life" (Paul "Groucho" Smykle 1986 7" Mix) - 3:58

*UK 7" single (1986) ISG266
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - 7" Edit) - 3:47
#"Living My Life" (Paul "Groucho" Smykle 1986 7" Mix) - 3:58

*UK 12" single (1986) 12ISP266/12IS266
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 6:57
#"Living My Life" (Long Version) - 5:28
#"The Apple Stretching" - 6:55

*GE 12" single (1986)
#"Love Is The Drug" (Eric "E.T." Thorngren Mix - Extended) - 6:57
#"Living My Life" (Long Version) - 5:28
#"The Apple Stretching" - 6:55

"Private Life"

*US 12" single (1980)
#"Private Life" (Long Version) - 6:19
#"She's Lost Control" (Long Version) - 8:23

*NE 7" single (1980) 102.305
#"Private Life" (7" Mix) - 4:36
#"Pars" - 4:05

*UK 7" single (1980) WIP 6629
#"Private Life" (7" Mix) - 4:36
#"She's Lost Control" (7" Mix) - 3:39

*UK 12" single (1980) 12WIP 6629
#"Private Life" (Long Version) - 6:19
#"She's Lost Control" (Long Version) - 8:23

*GE 7" single (1980) 102 261-100
#"Private Life" (7" Mix) - 4.36
#"She's Lost Control" (7" Mix) - 3:39

*GE 12" single (1980) 600 261-213
#"Private Life" (Long Version) - 6:19
#"She's Lost Control" (Long Version) - 8:23

*UK 7" single (1986)
#"Private Life" (1986 7" Mix) - 3:57
#"My Jamaican Guy" (1986 7" Edit) - 4:16

"Pars"

*CA 7" single (1980) IS308
#"Pars" - 4:05
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25

*CA 7" promo (1980)
#"Pars" - 4:05
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50

"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game"

*CL 7" single (1980)
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50
#"Pars" - 4:05

*UK 7" single (1980) WIP6645
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Alternate untitled reggae version) - 3:50

*UK 12" single (1980) 12WIP6645
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Long Version) - 6:45
#"Warm Leatherette" (Long Version) - 5:38

*GE 12" single (1980) 600 271
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Long Version) - 6:45
#"Warm Leatherette" (Long Version) - 5:36

*US 12" promo (1980) PRO-A-892
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50

"Breakdown"

*US 7" promo (1980) IS49603
#"Breakdown" (Edit/Stereo) - 3:00
#"Breakdown" (Edit/Mono) - 3:00

*US 7" single (1980)
#"Breakdown"
#"Pull Up To The Bumper"

*US 12" promo (1980)
#"Breakdown" - 5.30
#"Warm Leatherette" - 3:10

*US 12" promo (1980) PRO-A-920
#"Breakdown" - 5:30
#"Breakdown" (Edit) - 3:10
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25

"Warm Leatherette"

*US 7" promo (?) IS 7-94993
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:26
#"La Vie En Rose" - 3:35

*US 12" promo (1980) PRO-A-879
#"Warm Leatherette" - 4:25
#"Love Is The Drug" - 7:15
#"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" - 3:50
#"Bullshit" - 5:20