Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done To Deserve This (The Shep Pettibone Remix) (US 12'') (1988)

Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done To Deserve This (The Shep Pettibone Remix) (US 12'') (1988)

"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" is a song by English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, featuring singer Dusty Springfield. When released as a single in late 1987, it peaked at number 2 in the UK and also at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the fourth top ten hit for Pet Shop Boys as well as the biggest hit of Springfield's career in the US. It was kept from the top spot by "Seasons Change" by Expose and "Father Figure" by their fellow British singer George Michael on that chart. The single made it to number 1 on the Irish singles chart, where it was Pet Shop Boys' second number 1 hit in the space of just six weeks. The song's success helped revive Springfield's career and led to a resurgence of interest in her music. Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield performed the song for the 1988 BRIT Awards. Following the duet the Pet Shop Boys wrote and produced the singles "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private" for Springfield, both included on her 1990 album Reputation. The music video was filmed in a music hall, featuring a female chorus line and male members of the pit orchestra. It made significant use of the theater drapes and stage curtains for dramatic effect. Like all of the singles taken from the Actually album, the song also appears on the film It Couldn't Happen Here, where it is briefly played in instrumental form, without vocals. In North America the 12" single included alternate Shep Pettibone remixes with "Rent" and "I Want A Dog" as the b-side tracks. SIDE A: What Have I Done To Deserve This? (The Shep Pettibone Remix) 8:30 Edited By – Junior Vasquez, Shep Pettibone Engineer [Remix] – Bob Rosa Producer – Stephen HagueRemix, Producer [Additional Production] – Shep Pettibone Written-By – Allee Willis, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant* What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Dub Mix) 6:50 Edited By – Junior Vasquez, Shep Pettibone Engineer [Remix] – Bob Rosa Producer – Stephen HagueRemix, Producer [Additional Production] – Shep Pettibone Written-By – Allee Willis, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant* SIDE B: Rent (The François Kevorkian Remix) 7:02 Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards Producer, Engineer – Julian Mendelsohn Remix – François Kevorkian, Michael Hutchinson Written-By – Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe* I Want A Dog 4:57 Engineer – David Jacob, Mike Nielson* Producer – Pet Shop Bo ysWritten-By – Neil Tennant Chris Lowe* VINYL GRADE: Vinyl: Near Mint Sleeve: Near Mint RELEASE INFORMATION: Label: EMI-Manhattan Records ‎– V-56080 Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1988 Genre: Electronic Style: Synth-pop CREDITS: Composed By – Willis* (tracks: A1, A2), Tennant/Lowe* Design [Sleeve] – Mark Farrow At (3)*, Pet Shop Boys Photography By – Eric Watson (3) Photography By [Dusty Springfield] – Val Wilmer* NOTES: Printed in the U.S.A

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Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) (Canada 12'') (1986)

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) (Canada 12'') (1986)

NEW 2021 Transfer! Meticulously Remastered! Originally posted March 21, 2017 “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” is a song by UK duo Pet Shop Boys, released as a single in 1985 and then in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the United Kingdom and United States with its second release, reaching number 11 in the UK Singles Chart and number 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100. The song’s indirect attack on its subject matter has come to exemplify the Pet Shop Boys as ironists in their songwriting. This 12″ is for the 1986 re-release which becam a worldwide hit and features remixes by noted 1980s producer Shep Pettibone. Shep Pettibone did not mix “Was That What It Was?”; he was booked to do so, but missed his plane, and his manager, Jane Brinton, mixed the song in his absence. It is unknown if Shep Pettibone was consulting the manager over the phone. This fact went unnoticed until Pet Shop Boys revealed it in the liner notes for the Alternative anthology of B-sides and rarities (1995), though Jane Brinton gets a “Thanks to” mention on the 12″ cover. After a Super Bowl ad featuring the song, it re-entered the Billboard's Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart at No. 5 on February 20, 2021. ** The original transfer that I did in 2017 had a mastering error in the vinyl that created a 2 second gap of silence at around 4:00 on track B2. I have corrected this error for this transfer. SIDE A: Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) 7:18 Engineer [Mix] – Andy Wallace Producer [Additional Production] – Stephen Hague Producer [Original Production] – J.J. Jeczalik, Nicholas Froome Recorded By [New York Overdubs By] – Ron Dean Miller Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Shep Pettibone Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (Reprise) 4:28 Engineer [Mix] – Andy Wallace Producer [Additional Production] – Stephen Hague Producer [Original Production] – J.J. Jeczalik, Nicholas Froome Recorded By [New York Overdubs By] – Ron Dean Miller Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Shep Pettibone SIDE B: Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (Original Dance Mix) 6:47 Producer – J.J. Jeczalik, Nicholas Froome Was That What It Was? 5:14 Mixed By – Shep Pettibone Mixed By [Uncredited] – Jane Brinton Producer – Pet Shop Boys VINYL GRADE: Vinyl: Near Mint Sleeve: Near Mint RELEASE INFORMATION: Label: EMI America - S 75146 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single Country: Canada Released: 1986 Genre: Electronic Style: Synth-pop CREDITS: Sleeve – Mark Farrow, P.S.B.* Written-By – N. Tennant-C. Lowe* NOTES: A1, A2, and B2 remixed for Mastermix Productions

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Pet Shop Boys - It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix) (US 12'') (1987)

Pet Shop Boys - It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix) (US 12'') (1987)

Celebrating Pride 2021 NEW 2021 Transfer! NEW Meticulous Restoration! Originally posted March 20, 2013 "It's a Sin" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their second studio album, Actually (1987). Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, the song was released on 15 June 1987 as the album's lead single. It became the duo's second number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks atop the chart. Additionally, the single topped the charts in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, while reaching number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100. A demo of the track was first cut in 1984 with Bobby Orlando, and the song's form in the demo remained intact to the final version, although the released production is far more dramatic. The dramatic, overblown production style of the song, loaded with synthesizers, orchestra hits and bookended by a non sequitur sample of a NASA countdown, has come to exemplify the most theatrical extremes of the Pet Shop Boys' musical style.[3] It remains a concert staple, being one of only two songs (alongside "West End Girls") that has been played during every Pet Shop Boys tour. The band stated at the time that they had been keen for Stock Aitken Waterman to produce the song, as they were huge fans. Neil has stated that Pete Waterman hated the demo so they turned instead to SAW's remix engineer Phil Harding to remix the song for the US release (which went uncredited on the sleeve). They would work with him again on "I'm Not Scared", the single they wrote for the Patsy Kensit band Eighth Wonder and remixes of "Always on My Mind". Bursting with melodramatic orchestral stabs, a NASA countdown, and huge-sounding, sweeping synths "It's A Sin" secured itself in Gay culture permenantly becoming a Pride Anthem. SIDE A: It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix) 9:16 Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards Remix – Pet Shop Boys , Phil Harding It’s A Sin (Phil Harding Latin Dub Mix) 4:22 Keyboards [Fairlight] – Andy Richards Remix – Pet Shop Boys , Phil Harding SIDE B: It’s A Sin (Remix) 8:16 Remix – Ian Ian Levine It’s A Sin (Disco Mix) 7:42 Mixed By [Additional] – Stephen Hague You Know Where You Went Wrong 5:51 Producer – Pet Shop Boys, Shep Pettibone VINYL GRADE: Vinyl: Near Mint Cover: Near Mint RELEASE INFORMATION: Label: EMI America - V-19256 Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: June 15, 1987 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Synth-pop, Hi NRG, Freestyle CREDITS: Mastered By – Herbie Jr. :^)* Producer [Additional] – Stephen Hague (tracks: A1, A2, B2) Producer, Engineer – Julian Mendelsohn (tracks: A1 to B2) Written-By – Neil Tennant And Chris Lowe* NOTES: Packaged in 3-track sleeve for 1st 12″, stickered “4 special mixes of ‘It’s a Sin'”. A1 and B1 “remixed in the U.K. for the USA” A1 AKA “Phil Harding Latin Vocal Mix” A2 as “Phil Harding Latin Dub Mix” Sleeve mistakenly lists: (Album version can be heard on the forthcoming album, “Jealousy”-ELT-46972) Helena Springs courtesy of Arista Records. (Album version can be heard on the LP, “Actually”-ELJ-46972) “You Know Where You Went Wrong” (Not Available on the album “Actually”-ELJ-46972)

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