SATURDAY'S SINGLES : ROD STEWART and RIGHT SAID FRED

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Good morning gang and welcome to a special edition of Saturday's Singles, a sexy number one edition. First up, we have British singer Rod Stewart with his 1978 Warner Brothers single, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" February of 1979 saw the track land at #1 on the Hot 100, for a month. The song, from his 9th album,  Blondes Have More Fun, also clenched the top spot in Australia, Canada, Portugal, Spain, and the UK. It's B-side features the tune, "Scarred and Scared" from the same LP.

Rod Stewart - vocals
Gary Grainger, Billy Peek – guitar
Jim Cregan – guitar, backing vocals
Phil Chen – bass guitar, backing vocals
Carmine Appice – drums, backing vocals

With :

Fred Tackett - acoustic guitars
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Duane Hitchings – keyboards, synthesizer
Roger Bethelmy – drums
Paulinho Da Costa, Tommy Vig – percussion
Gary Herbig – flute
Phil Kenzie, Tom Scott – tenor saxophone
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Mike Finnigan – background vocals
Max Carl Gronenthal – background vocals
Linda Lewis – vocals
Catherine Allison – piano, background vocals
Del Newman – string arrangements

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Our second sexy single comes to us via British group Right Said Fred. "I'm Too Sexy" was released in 1991 on the Charisma label. In addition to topping the Hot 100, on this weekend in '91, the track also landed at number one on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Austria, and Australia. Our cassette single has both  the "7 Mix and the Spanish Version and the program is repeated on both sides. the song hailed from the group's debut record, Up.

Right Said Fred :

Richard Fairbrass – lead vocals, bass guitar
Fred Fairbrass – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
Rob Manzoli – electric guitar, backing vocals

With:

Phil Spalding – bass guitar
TommyD – keyboards, programming, arranger, producer, backing vocals
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor – piano
Malcolm Duncan – saxophone
Sid Gould – trombone
Neil Sidwell – trumpet
Chuck Sabo – drums
Jocelyn Brown – vocals
Lily D – backing vocals
Graham Bonnett – backing vocals, engineer
Massive Gut – backing vocals
Juliet Roberts – backing vocals
Nick Ingman – arranger, string arrangements
Ian Craig Marsh – programming
Brian Pugsley – programming

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