28 June 2010

NIGHTSHIFT - Dance in the Moonlight b/w/ Don't Rush The Good Things















harvest -1981

DANCE IN THE MOONLIGHT
DON'T RUSH THE GOOD THINGS ( Long Version)

This is the last of five singles by the Edinburg band Nightshift. An earlier version of Dance in the Moonlight was culled from the 20 track Castle Sound recordings and appeared 2 years earlier on the B.B.C. D.J. Charlie Gillets Honky Tonk Demos LP. This re recorded version has some post 1980 studio "production" absent in the earlier version but thankfully it doesn't affect the song too much. The B side " Don't Rush the Good Things" Is also an alternate version of a song released a year earlier. All of the bands 45's and the Honky Tonk Demos LP are really common but it seems Harvest didn't have much faith in these guys because this particular single is pretty tough to find and didn't get a picture sleeve. Looks like Vinyl Tap recently unearthed a few copies though..

3 comments:

  1. No one here in Edinburgh cared about any of the Nightshift records back then. Having listened to this again, I guess we were wrong.

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  2. Yeah,
    This is by far my favorite song by this band. The Honky Tonk demos version is better though. Production is less dated.

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