Louise Tucker - Midnight Blue LP

South African 1982 pressing

Sleeve VG with no splits or tears. Various stickers as shown (price tag front top right, two small white stickers next to titles 1 and 2 Side 1 tracklisting).

Record is NM with clean and crisp surface and labels. No skips, jumps, pop or clicks.

A1 Midnight Blue 3:58

A2 Only For You 3:30

A3 Hush 4:36

A4 Shadows 5:16

B1 Waiting For Hugo 4:16

B2 Voices In The Wind 4:30

B3 Jerusalem 4:32

B4 Graveyard Angel 4:10

B5 Gettin' Older 4:32

"Midnight Blue" was the first single from the album, released around the world in 1982-3. The single also features Charlie Skarbek on vocals. The resultant sales of the single and album exceeded 7million as of 2009. Further singles were lifted from the album - "Only For You" and a remixed version of "Hush" (limited release in Canada, Australia and Portugal).

In the spring of 1982 opera singer Louise Tucker met record producer Tim Smit when she accompanied his sister-in-law who'd come to babysit for him: this meeting led to Tucker recording the demo for the track "Midnight Blue" - which utilized the melody of the second movement of "Sonata Pathétique" by Beethoven - with Smit and his friend Charlie Skarbek producing. Smit and Skarbek successfully shopped the track to the Dutch division of Ariola Records and the finished track was cut at Chestnut Studios in Farnham.  Some releases (including this one) note Chestnut recording studios as being in Frensham (south of Farnham), with Abbey Road Studios, London also involved. Recording period given as June to September 1982.