It's You I Want to Live With
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| Studio album by Peter Maffay | ||||
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1973 |
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| Label (s) | Telefunken | |||
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LP |
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12 |
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It's You I Want to Live With is an English-language studio album by the German hit and rock musician Peter Maffay , which was released in 1973. The songs are English versions of his first three albums.
Emergence
Malcolm "Mal" Luker, former keyboardist for The Smoke and sound engineer at Union Studios in Munich , Pete Bellotte, who had already written texts in English for songs by Michael Holm , and Jack Lloyd translated some of the German-language hits from Maffays for the album first studio albums in English. The original German texts come from Michael Kunze . In addition, some songs by Barry and Robin Gibb were recorded in the original text, which Maffay had already sung in German (e.g. If I Were the Sky as I am your friend on the album You are like a song ).
Publications
The album was initially not available in Germany. In 1982 It's You I Want to Live With was released in Great Britain as a double LP together with the English-language album Josie as It's You / Josie . This was also only available as an import record in Germany. Both versions are now considered rarities. The serial number of the first publication on Telefunken is "SGALP 1675". The double LP was released under the number "Teldec 66.28 206 DT".
Under the name It's You Josie , the two English-language albums were to be released as a double CD by Ariola in 2002 . The release was canceled without giving any reason, the albums have not yet appeared on CD. The first CD includes the album It's You I Want to Live With and the bonus track Your Golden Hair .
The album produced a single, You , the English version of Du .
Track list
- It's You (I Want to Live With) ( Wolfgang Rödelberger , Michael Kunze, Mal Luker) - 4:40
- Catalina ( Christian Bruhn , Kunze, Luker) - 2:55
- That's Why I Keep on Loving You (Bruhn, Kunze, Luker) - 3:02
- You've Got Something (Bruhn, Kunze, Pete Bellotte) - 3:15
- When I Do ( Barry Gibb , Robin Gibb ) - 4:55
- You ( Peter Orloff , Kunze, Bellotte) - 4:51
- Peace Hymn (Peter Maffay, Kunze, Bellotte) - 4:25
- Love Is Forever (Bruhn, Kunze, Luker) - 3:15
- There's a Star for Me and You (Maffay, Kunze, Jack Lloyd) - 4:10
- If I Were the Sky (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) - 3:03
- Tania (Maffay, Kunze, Bellotte) - 3:05
- Mando Bay (B. Gibb) - 4:35
Web links
- It's You I Want to Live With on Allmusic (English)
- musik-sammler.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Graf and Burghard Rausch: Rock Music Lexicon . Europe / Vol. 2, Lake Zombies. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12388-7 , pp. 808 .
- ^ Peter Maffay - It's You I Want To Live With. In: hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed February 3, 2012 .
- ^ Frank Küster: Oldie-Markt Discography: Peter Maffay . In: Oldie Market . No. 11 , 2005, p. 13 ( PDF, online ).
- ↑ It's You Josie - Peter Maffay. In: allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation, accessed February 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Title list at musicline.de