Mad About You (song)

Mad About You (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Mad About You
Artist = Belinda Carlisle
from Album = Belinda
B-side = "I Never Wanted a Rich Man"
Released = 1986
Format = CD single
7" single
12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:36
Label = I.R.S. Records
Writer = Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans
Producer = Michael Lloyd
Certification =
Last single = "Yes or No" (The Go-Go's)(1984)
This single = "Mad About You" (1986)
Next single = "I Feel the Magic" (1986)
Misc =
"Mad About You" is a pop song written by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan and Mitchel Young Evans, produced by Michael Lloyd, for Belinda Carlisle's debut solo album "Belinda". It was released as the album's first single, in 1986, as a CD single (one of the first ever marketed), 7" single and a 12" single. It was her first hit after leaving the Go-Go's, peaking at Number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and at Number 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

The year that the song was released, Carlisle married Morgan Mason, who appears with Belinda in the video for "Mad About You". The guitar solo on the song was performed by Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran), who also appears in the video which was directed by Leslie Libman.

The song was actually a Go-Go's reunion of sorts: Paula Jean Brown (who took Jane Wiedlin's spot in the band just before it broke up) co-wrote the song, and Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey sang back-up vocals. Besides, the intro to the Go-Go's song called "This Old Feeling" (a track on their second album, "Vacation") features a typical bassline, which resurfaces, more or less unaltered, on the intro to Belinda's first solo hit. In fact, "Mad About You" was one of several songs that was projected to be on the fourth (unrecorded) Go-Go's album that wound up on "Belinda" instead.

The single's B side, "I Never Wanted a Rich Man", was also featured on Carlisle's first long playing work (it closed Side 1 on the vinyl edition). The extended version of "Mad About You", originally on the A side of the 12" single, was then included on the album compact disc re-release by Virgin in 2003.

Track listing

;7" single
# "Mad About You" (single mix) — 3:30
# "I Never Wanted a Rich Man" — 4:12

;12" single
#"Mad About You" (extended mix) — 5:03
#"Mad About You" (single mix) — 3:30
#"Mad About You" (instrumental mix) — 3:30

Charts

References


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