Red Hot + Blue
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| Compilation album by various artists | ||||
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Publication |
1990 |
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| Label (s) | Chrysalis | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
20th |
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running time |
77:57 |
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Red Hot + Blue is a compilation album from 1990, which was conceived as a tribute to Cole Porter , and on which well-known pop musicians of the 1990s recorded contemporary covers of titles by the famous Broadway and film composer. The title of the album is Cole Porter's Musical Red, Hot and Blue! borrowed.
The album is the first in a series of benefit albums released by the Red Hot Organization in support of AIDS relief projects in various countries. Red Hot + Blue has sold over a million times worldwide and is considered the music industry's first major AIDS benefit project.
In 2006, Red Hot + Blue was re-released in the US as a 2-disc set containing an audio CD of the original post-processed recordings and a DVD-Video with the video clips.
Track list
- I've Got You Under My Skin - Neneh Cherry 4:28 (video by Jean-Baptiste Mondino )
- In the Still of the Night - The Neville Brothers 5:18 (video by Jonathan Demme )
- You Do Something to Me - Sinéad O'Connor 2:34 (video by John Maybury )
- Begin the Beguine - Salif Keïta 3:22 (video by Zak Ove)
- Love for Sale - Fine Young Cannibals 2:49
- Well, Did You Evah! - Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop 3:28 (video by Alex Cox )
- Miss Otis Regrets / Just One of Those Things - Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues 4:40 (video by Neil Jordan )
- Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne 3:09 (video by David Byrne)
- It's All Right with Me - Tom Waits 4:40 (video by Jim Jarmusch )
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox 3:55 (video by Edward Lachman )
- Night and Day - U2 5:21 (video by Wim Wenders )
- I Love Paris - Les Négresses Vertes 3:13 (video by Roger Pomphrey)
- So in Love - kd lang 4:41 (video by Percy Adlon )
- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - Thompson Twins 3:18
- Too Darn Hot - Erasure 3:40 (Video by Adelle Lutz and Sandy McLeod)
- I Get a Kick - Jungle Brothers 2:52 (video by Mark Pellington )
- Down in the Depths - Lisa Stansfield 4:27 (video by Phillippe Gautier)
- From This Moment On - Jimmy Somerville 3:18 (video by Steve Mclean)
- After you, who? - Jody Watley 3:10 (video by Matthew Rolston )
- Do I Love You? - Aztec Camera 4:40 (video by John Scarlett-Davies)