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1984 single by George Michael

"Never Gonna Dance Again (song)" redirects here. For the song by the Sugababes, see Change (Sugababes album).

"Careless Whisper"
Careless Whisper UK single.jpg

UK vii" vinyl release artwork, also used for various international releases
Unmarried by George Michael (near territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (U.s.)
from the album Make Information technology Big
Released 24 July 1984
Studio Sarm West, London
Genre
  • Pop[i]
  • soul[2]
  • R&B[3]
Length
  • half dozen:thirty (album version)
  • 5:00 (unmarried version)
Label
  • Epic
  • Columbia
  • Sony
Songwriter(s)
  • George Michael
  • Andrew Ridgeley
Producer(south)
  • George Michael
  • Jerry Wexler (original)
George Michael (well-nigh territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (United States) singles chronology
"Wake Me Upwardly Earlier You Get-Go"
(1984) 		"Careless Whisper"
(1984) 		"Freedom"
(1984)
George Michael (residue of the globe) singles chronology
"Devil-may-care Whisper"
(1984) 		"A Dissimilar Corner"
(1986)
Music video
"Careless Whisper" on YouTube
Culling encompass
Artwork for the US 7" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael.

Artwork for the United states of america 7" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael.

"Careless Whisper" is a song by the English vocalizer George Michael. Information technology was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley[4] of Wham! and was released on 24 July 1984 on the Wham! album Make It Large.

The vocal features a prominent saxophone riff, and has been covered by a number of artists since its first release. It was released as a single and became a huge commercial success around the globe. It reached number one in nearly 25 countries, selling about half dozen million copies worldwide—2 million of them in the United states.[5]

Groundwork [edit]

Composition and writing [edit]

In 1981, Michael was working equally a DJ in the Bel Air restaurant nearly Bushey, Hertfordshire.[6] Michael explained in his autobiography, Bare, that he conceptualised "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. Michael wrote, "I was on my mode to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote 'Devil-may-care Whisper'. I take always written on buses, trains and in cars. Information technology ever happens on journeys... With 'Devil-may-care Whisper' I remember exactly where it first came to me, where I came upwardly with the sax line... I remember I was handing the coin over to the guy on the jitney and I got this line, the sax line... I wrote information technology totally in my head. I worked on information technology for most three months in my head."[7]

"When I was twelve, thirteen, I used to have to chaperone my sister, who was two years older, to an ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. "At that place was a daughter there with long blonde hair whose proper noun was Jane. I was a fat male child in glasses and I had a large crush on her - though I didn't stand up a chance. My sister used to get and do what she wanted when we got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this girl Jane."[8]

"A few years later on, when I was sixteen, I had my first human relationship with a daughter called Helen," Michael continued.

It had but started to absurd off a scrap when I discovered that the blonde daughter from Queensway had moved in just effectually the corner from my school. She had moved in right next to where I used to stand and wait for my adjacent-door neighbour, who used to give me a lift home from schoolhouse. And i mean solar day I saw her walk down the path next to me and I thought – at present where did SHE come from? She didn't know information technology was me. Information technology was a few years subsequently and I looked a lot different. So nosotros played a school disco with The Executive and she saw me singing and decided she fancied me. By this time she was that much older and a big buxom thing – and eventually I started seeing her. She invited me in ane day when I was waiting for my lift and I was ... in heaven.[8]

Michael observed that afterwards he stopped wearing glasses, he began getting invited to parties. "And the girl who didn't fifty-fifty run across me when I was twelve invited me in," he noted.

So I went out with her for a couple of months but I didn't cease seeing Helen. I idea I was being smart – I had gone from being a total loser to being a two-timer. And I remember my sisters used to give me a hard time considering they found out and they really liked the showtime girl. The whole idea of "Devil-may-care Whisper" was the first girl finding out about the second – which she never did. Just I started some other relationship with a girl chosen Alexis without finishing the one with Jane. It all got a bit complicated. Jane plant out most her and got rid of me ... The whole time I thought I was being cool, being this two-timer, but there really wasn't that much emotion involved. I did experience guilty virtually the first girl – and I have seen her since – and the idea of the song was virtually her. "Careless Whisper" was us dancing, because we danced a lot, and the idea was – we are dancing ... but she knows ... and it's finished.[8]

Andrew Ridgeley came up with the chord sequence on his Fender Telecaster he had received for his 18th altogether.[nine] They continued to work together on the music and lyric both at Michael's firm in Radlett, and Shirlie Holliman'south aunt's basement apartment in Peckham, where Ridgeley was living.[9] [x]

Demoing [edit]

The original demo was recorded by local music producer Paul Mex, in January 1982 alongside those for "Society Tropicana" and "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What Yous Do)" in the forepart room of Ridgeley's home (his parents' lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with Mex's TEAC 4-track Portastudio. Because almost of the day was spent on Wham Rap!... and Ridgeley'southward mother had returned dwelling by that point, Careless Whisper had to be recorded in one accept very speedily. Information technology featured a Doctor Rhythm drum machine, an acoustic guitar (played by Ridgeley) and a bass guitar (played by Dave W), with Michael's vocal (recorded with a microphone attached to a broom handle).[11] [12] The overall cost of the recording was £20 (largely due to the rental cost of the Portastudio) and the duo landed a deal with Innervision by Mark Dean on the strength of the demos.[xiii] [14]

A more complete and fully realised 2nd demo was recorded on 24 March 1982 at Halligan Band Centre, Holloway, London with a bankroll band and a saxophone riff.[15] However, on the same mean solar day, Michael and Ridgely were called over by Dean to sign a contract in addition to the tape bargain, which they did at a nearby greasy spoon café. Michael recalls of that twenty-four hour period:

"I of the virtually incredible moments of my life was hearing 'Careless Whisper' demoed properly, with a band, a sax and everything. It was ironic that nosotros signed the contract with Mark [Dean] that solar day, the twenty-four hours I finally believed we had number-i material. That same 24-hour interval we signed it all abroad. But you can never really know what you are capable of, you tin can never really have that foresight."[15]

Production [edit]

The song went through at least two rounds of production. The start was during a trip Michael made to Sheffield, Alabama, where he went to work with producer Jerry Wexler at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1983.[16] [17] Michael was unhappy with the original version produced by Wexler, and decided to re-tape and produce the song himself; the 2nd version was the ane ultimately released equally a single.

After the backing track and George's song had been recorded, Wexler had booked the top saxophone thespian from Los Angeles to fly in and do the solo.[18] "He arrived at xi and should have been gone by twelve", recalled Wham! managing director Simon Napier-Bell. "Instead, later on two hours, he was still in that location while everyone in the studio shuddered with embarrassment. He simply couldn't play the opening riff the way George wanted it, the manner it had been on the demo. But that had been made two years earlier by a friend of George'due south who lived round the corner and played sax for fun in the pub."[xviii]

While the saxophonist appeared to exist playing the function perfectly, Michael told him, "No, it'due south still not right, you see..." and he would lower his caput to the talkback microphone and patiently hum the part to him yet again. "Information technology has to twitch upwards a footling simply in that location! See...? And not likewise much."[18]

Napier-Bong consulted with Wexler over Michael's dispute with the sax sound. "Is at that place really something George wants that's different from what the sax player is playing?" Napier-Bell asked.[eighteen] "Definitely!" replied Wexler.

"I've seen things like this before. There's some tiny dash that the sax histrion is somehow not getting right. Although you and I can't hear what it is, it may be the very thing that will make the tape a hitting. The success of pop records is so ephemeral, so unbelievably unpredictable, we only tin can't accept the risk of beingness impatient. But this sax player'south not going to get it, is he!"[eighteen]

The version Wexler produced was released later in the year, as a (4:41) B-side "Special Version" on 12" in the UK and Nippon.

The record label Innervision was going to put out the Wexler version of "Careless Whisper" after the Social club Fantastic Megamix equally early as 1983. Song publisher Dick Leahy said that while he could not stop the release of the Social club Fantastic Megamix, he could stop the release of this unmarried on the ground that as a publisher they "have the correct to grant the first license of the recording of a tune of which he controls the copyright". He was unable to practice anything nearly the Lodge Fantastic Megamix because it was already released fabric. He said: "We knew how large that song could be, so it was necessary to upset a few people to stop information technology."[19] Towards the end of 1983, Michael was also committed to touring with Wham! to promote Fantastic, and so according to him it would not take made sense to release "Careless Whisper" as a solo unmarried in the middle of the tour, despite information technology being part of the setlist.[20]

Michael later went back to London's Sarm W's Studio 2 to re-record the runway, the courage of which was done with a live rhythm department in ane take, with "loads of stuff bunged on [overdubbed] after" as Michael added, although the feel of information technology was basically live.[21] [22]

Michael elaborated on the song'southward production and how information technology turned out in the end:

"Jerry Wexler did one recording of "Careless Whisper" with me. And then we re-mixed that, which meant re-shooting the video and then we completely re-did the track about 4 weeks earlier it was due to be released. When we originally made it I was totally in awe of Jerry Wexler and information technology was the kickoff time that I had e'er felt similar that about anybody that I'd worked with. Usually I have trouble disarming myself that people know what they're doing. In this case I had to go drunkard in order to sing, I was so nervous. Anyway, my publisher [Dick Leahy] and I had loads of discussions about whether the record was good enough for the song and whether there was enough of me in it because information technology just did not sound like me. I said 'it'due south groovy. Jerry'south done a great chore on it', and for the kickoff fourth dimension since we'd started I was blind to what was going on because the song was already two and a half years old and I just did not have a clue about where else I could accept it. Somewhen I merely thought, 'sod this. I'm going to go in and do it equally if information technology had never been done before with the musicians we normally use and encounter what happens.' The track was much ameliorate because I was relaxed and I think that our musicians did a much better job than the Muscle Shoals section". [22]

After hiring and firing several other different sax players, for which the BBC characterized as struggling to play all the notes with "the right amount of fluidity and still breathe,"[23] Michael eventually heard what he was looking for from Steve Gregory.[24]

During an interview with DJ Danny Sun, Gregory said he was the ninth sax thespian to attempt the riff. Gregory said Michael's secretary had phoned him upwards midday and asked him to requite the solo a try.[25]

"When I got in that location, it was most getting on to midnight, and there was another saxophone player in the studio, Ray Warleigh, who I knew quite well, and he said 'what are you doing here?' And George hadn't showed up. So Ray was a chip fed up. He said 'Well I'm going, you can do it. I've had enough of waiting.' So he left and information technology was just myself, and (record producer) Chris Porter. And then I said I've had quite a long day, I'm going to exercise a better job at present than I volition at three o'clock in the morning, so tin we try and exercise something? So we went into the command room and George had already recorded it in LA with Jerry Wexler producing information technology and Tom Scott playing the saxophone line...he said this is what you got to do and he played this and I thought 'That is fantastic, why on Earth does he want to practice information technology over again? I tin't play it as well as that!' And (Porter) said 'Oh, information technology's a new version, he's done his ain product, it's a new track, it's got to be re-done, he just needs that on the new track,' then I went in the studio I tried to practise it and my saxophone is an sometime Selmer (tenor sax) from about 1954 or something and I didn't have that tiptop notation. I didn't accept a proper note on my saxophone, I had what we call a fake fingering I had to do to play it. And so it didn't really sound that shine. It didn't sound that keen. And so having been around for a while, having had a bit of experience, I suggested to him, I said, 'look, if you took it down by a semitone, a very small amount, I'd have all the proper notes on my horn and we could see how information technology sounds. So that's what he did, he sort of did his calculations and took information technology down a semitone, so I went out again and I played it in a lower cardinal and when after I finished it I went back into the command room and he played it back and he put it back up to the proper speed, and as he was playing it back, George walked into the studio, and he said 'Oh, I think we got information technology!' And then he pointed at me and said, 'You are number 9!'"

The officially released single was issued in August 1984, inbound the UK Singles Chart at number 12. Inside two weeks it was at number one, ending a ix-week run at the top for "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[iv] It stayed at number ane for 3 weeks, going on to become the fifth best-selling single of 1984 in the United Kingdom; outsold only by the ii Frankie Goes to Hollywood tracks, "Two Tribes" and "Relax", Stevie Wonder with "I Just Called to Say I Love You", and Ring Help's "Practice They Know It'southward Christmas?". The song also topped the charts in 25 other countries, including the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in February 1985 nether the credit "Wham! featuring George Michael". Spending 3 weeks at the top in America, the vocal was later named Billboard 'southward number-one vocal of 1985. The song was #1 on the smooth radio height 500 songs of all fourth dimension chart – proving its iconic condition.

Despite the success, Michael was never addicted of the song. He said in 1991 that it "was not an integral part of my emotional evolution ... it disappoints me that you tin can write a lyric very flippantly—and non a particularly skillful lyric—and information technology can mean and so much to so many people. That's disillusioning for a writer."[xix]

Music video [edit]

The official music video (which uses the shorter single version instead of the full album version and was directed by Duncan Gibbins, who previously directed "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go") shows the guilt felt by a man (portrayed by Michael) over an matter, and his acknowledgement that his partner (Lisa Stahl) is going to find out. Madeline Andrews-Hodge plays the woman who lures George away. It was filmed on location in Miami, Florida, in February 1984[26] and features such locales as Coconut Grove and Watson Island. The terminal part of the video shows Michael leaning out of a top floor balcony of Miami's Grove Towers.[27] [28]

A first original version of the video was edited with the Jerry Wexler 1983 version, and featured Andrew as a cameo, handing over a letter to a nighttime-haired George. This version had a more detailed storyline, but was then re-edited later.[29]

According to producer Jon Roseman, production of the video was "A fucking disaster".[xxx] Co-ordinate to Michael'due south co-star Lisa Stahl, "They lost footage of our kissing scene so nosotros had to reshoot it, which I didn't complain about ... Then George decided he didn't like his pilus so he flew his sister over from England to cut it and we had to reshoot more scenes."[31]

As the band felt they had "screwed upwards" the video, further footage of Michael singing the song onstage was later shot at the Lyceum Theatre, London.[xxx] The video operation (1984 Version) was officially uploaded to George Michael YouTube channel on 24 Oct 2009. It has over 852 one thousand thousand views equally of 2022.

Rail listing [edit]

All tracks are written past George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.

7": Ballsy / A 4603 (UK)
No. Championship Length
ane. "Careless Whisper" (Unmarried Edit) 5:04
2. "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) 5:02
12": Epic / TA4603 (Great britain)
No. Championship Length
1. "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) 6:31
two. "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) 5:02
12": Columbia / 44-05170 (Us)
No. Title Length
1. "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Extended Mix) half dozen:20
2. "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) iv:52
12": Columbia Promotional / As-1980 (US)
No. Title Length
1. "Devil-may-care Whisper" 4:fifty
ii. "Careless Whisper" 4:50
12" maxi: Ballsy / QTA 4603 (UK) – Special Edition
No. Title Length
1. "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) six:31
2. "Careless Whisper" (Jerry Wexler Special Version) 5:34
iii. "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Condensed Instrumental Version) 4:52
  • Note: The Extended Mix is identical to the album version from Make It Big.

Credits and personnel [edit]

  • George Michael – lead and backing vocals
  • Andrew Ridgeley – acoustic guitar (uncredited)
  • Steve Gregory – saxophone
  • Deon Estus – bass
  • Trevor Murrell – drums[nb 1]
  • Chris Parren – keyboards
  • Anne Dudley – keyboards [33]
  • Hugh Burns – electric guitar
  • Danny Cummings – percussion

Credits adapted from the Extended Mix'southward liner notes.[34]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

"Careless Whisper" has been covered by many other artists. Among the virtually meaning versions are:

  • Sarah Washington on a dance version that peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart (1993).[93]
  • 2Play produced a cover version in 2004. It charted at number 29 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[94]
  • Kamasi Washington and El Debarge performed information technology to pay tribute to George Michael at the 2017 BET Awards.[95]
  • South African alternative rock ring Seether covered the song on their 2007 album Finding Dazzler in Negative Spaces. It charted at number 63 in the United states.[96]
  • Dutch rapper Lil' Kleine sampled the chorus for his song, titled "Dansen", on his most recent album Ibiza Stories.[97]
  • Saxophonist Dave Koz recorded a cover version for his 1999 album The Dance, featuring Montell Hashemite kingdom of jordan on pb vocals; in 2000 the song peaked at number xxx on Billboard'due south adult contemporary chart.[98]

See also [edit]

  • List of acknowledged singles in the United Kingdom
  • List of number-one singles in Commonwealth of australia during the 1980s
  • List of Dutch Top xl number-one singles of 1984
  • Listing of number-one singles of 1984 (Republic of ireland)
  • List of number-one hits of 1984 (Switzerland)
  • List of number-one singles from the 1980s (Uk)
  • List of RPM number-ane singles of 1985
  • List of Hot 100 number-i singles of 1985 (U.South.)
  • Listing of number-1 adult contemporary singles of 1985 (U.South.)

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ The name of Wham!'s drummer was Trevor Murrell.[32] He is listed on the liner notes equally Trevor Morrell.

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External links [edit]

  • Careless Whisper sheet music PDF

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_Whisper

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