Hitmix (The Official Bootleg Mega Mix)
LABEL: Tabu
SERIES: Tabu Official Bootleg Megamixes
GROUPING: Single Artist Megamixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1989
CATALOGUE NO: 655504 6
RUNOUT GROOVES: 6555046A1 (Side A) 6555046B1 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in December 1989 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
ALEXANDER O’NEAL ‘Hitmix (The Official Bootleg Megamix)’ (Tabu 655504 6)
neatly chugging 114⅔-115-113⅔-116-0bpm megamix of ‘What Can I Say (To Make You Love Me)/Never Knew Love Like This/Fake/Hearsay/Criticize/Innocent’, created for a change by Ben’s DJ sister, Rita Leibrand, with last year’s tightly thudding 111⅓bpm ‘Sleigh Ride’ and Nat ‘King’ Cole styled lush slow orchestral ‘The Christmas Song’ as seasonal flip;
SIDE A MIX: HITMIX The Official Bootleg Mega-Mix 12" Version
MIXED BY: Rita Liebrand
LENGTH: 09:35
GENRE: Funk/Soul
COMMENTS: This is the same mix that is on side A of Tabu - Alexander O'Neal: Official Bootleg 2
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Alexander O'Neal - (What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (1987); Alexander O'Neal featuring Cherrelle - Never Knew Love Like This (1987); Alexander O'Neal - Fake (1987); Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay (1987); Alexander O'Neal - Criticize (1987); Alexander O'Neal - Innocent (1985)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE B:
SLEIGH RIDE - Alexander O'Neal
THE CHRISTMAS SONG (CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE) - Alexander O'Neal
