"ARSA | Sandie Shaw (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me". Simple in its piano house format and chugging Euro rhythm, this is hardbag house at its purest and most joyful." Another editor, James Hamilton noted, "Vannessa calmly croons the title over piping wheezy organ and plonking piano in naggingly effective simple jiggly chugging 0-129.7bpm ". Spirited and dancey as it is, it doesn't make a poor figure at all." Brad Beatnik from Music Week's RM Dance Update commented, "This unabashed house cover of Dusty Springfield's 'Always Something There To Remind Me' is already on its way into the dancefloor history books thanks to its initial Hooj Choons release and its ability to whip a club into a total frenzy. Critical receptionĪ reviewer from Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "The first thing she reminds you of is all the previous versions of this Burt Bacharach & Hal David song. A music video was made to accompany the single, filmed in the Café de Paris in London. The song features vocals by French singer Espiritu (aka Vanessa Quinones) and went to No. "Always (Something There to Remind Me)" on YouTubeĮnglish electronic music duo Tin Tin Out recorded a house cover of the song titled " Always (Something There to Remind Me)" in 1995. This version appears in a 2017 commercial for T-Mobile, as well as the trailer for the fifth season for Arrested Development in 2018. ![]() Naked Eyes re-recorded the song as an acoustic version for the 2007 album Fumbling with the Covers. In Brazil, the song was included on the international soundtrack of the soap opera Guerra dos Sexos/War of the Sexes in 1983. "Always Something There to Remind Me" did afford Naked Eyes top 10 success in other countries besides the United States: Australia (No. The cachet of entering the US top 10 allowed the single, previously overlooked in its performers' United Kingdom homeland, to make a July 1983 UK chart debut, although it only rose to No. Released in the US in 1983, Naked Eyes' "Always Something There to Remind Me" gradually gained attention, entering the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1983 to peak at No. Byrne would recall: "The record was recorded at Abbey Road, and we were invited to a party downstairs, with Paul McCartney and many other stars.When we returned upstairs to the studio around 1 a.m., I decided to have a go at the vocal, it was the first time I have ever recorded a vocal in one take". On the strength of the demos cut in Bristol, Byrne and Fisher were signed to EMI Records in May 1982 and the track "Always Something There to Remind Me" was cut on 1 September 1982 in a session at Abbey Road Studios produced by Tony Mansfield. Byrne would recall: "I had always loved the song "Always Something There to Remind Me" so we called a friend who had the record, he read the lyric over the phone and we put it together from memory." Vocalist Pete Byrne and keyboardist Rob Fisher first cut "Always Something There to Remind Me" as one of a number of demos recorded in Bristol upon forming the duo later known as Naked Eyes in early 1982. Nearly 20 years after its composition, the song reached the US top 20 for the first time via a synth-pop reinvention by Naked Eyes titled "Always Something There to Remind Me", which reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1983. Shaw made a bid for a German hit as well, rendering ".Always Something There to Remind Me" as "Einmal glücklich sein wie die ander'n". 2 in France in April 1965 and also reaching No. ![]() A cover by Eddy Mitchell was more successful, reaching No. ![]() Shaw herself recorded ".Always Something There to Remind Me" in French, as "Toujours un coin qui me rappelle", with lyrics by Ralph Bernet, which reached No. 10), the track's success in the last territory not precluding hit status for the Dutch rendering by Edwin Rutten entitled "Ik moet altijd weer opnieuw aan je denken" (No. 1 hit in Canada and South Africa, Shaw's version of ".Always Something There to Remind Me" was also a hit in Australia (No. However, despite reaching the Top Ten in some markets including Detroit and Miami Shaw's version failed to best the US showing of the Lou Johnson original the Hot 100 peak of Shaw's version was No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top of that listing in November 1964, and that same month it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100. The first week after its release, the single sold 65,000 copies. Rush-released in September 1964, the song was premiered by Shaw with a performance on Ready Steady Go!, the pop music TV program. " (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me"īritish impresario Eve Taylor heard Johnson's version while on a US visit scouting for material for her recent discovery Sandie Shaw, who consequently covered the song for the UK market. "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me"
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