Hot Shot (Barry Blue song)

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"Hot Shot" is a song written by Barry Blue and Lynsey de Paul, [1] that was released as a single on 2 September 1974 on the Bell Record label by Barry Blue. [2] [3] It was Blue's last chart entry with an original song, reaching no. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. [4] Despite this, it is considered as one of Blue's best songs. [5] The song was also his biggest hit in Sweden where it reached no. 1 on the Poporama singles chart, [6] and in Zimbabwe where it peaked at no. 3. [7] "Hot Shot" also reached no. 8 on the Hessischer Rundfunk Hitparade, [8] and spent three weeks on the Dutch Tipparade in 1975. [9]

Blue performed the song on twice on BBC TV's Top of the Pops on 11 October 1974 as a new release and 31 October 1974 when it entered the U.K. singles chart. The latter show also featured the song's co-writer, Lynsey de Paul, who was performing her own hit at the time "No Honestly". [10] [11]

As well as being included on Blue's 1974 Hot Shots album, [12] "Hot Shot" has been included on many compilation albums. [13] In 1996, it appeared for the first time on CD as a track on Blue's album Greatest Hits. [14] In 2002, it appeared as a track on Barry Blue - The Singles Collection, [15] and in 2003 on Dancin on a Saturday Night. [16] It also was a track on the 1975 compilation album, Supersonic, [17] the 1976 K-Tel album, 44 Superstars, [18] the German 1974 compilation Hit-Fabrik - 28 Schlager Am Laufenden Band on the Polydor label, [19] the Austrian 1975 compilation LP Pop Market 1, [20] and provided the title as well as one of the track to the album Bell's Hot Shots Of The 70's. [21] In the US it appeared on A History Of Bell U.K. 1970-1975, which was released in 1976 on the Arista label. [22]

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"Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" is a song that was written and produced by Lynsey de Paul, and released in July 1975 as her third single on the newly designed yellow Jet Record label in the UK, as a follow up to the hit single "My Man and Me". It was released on Polydor in Belgium, France and Germany ; backed with another de Paul composition "Into My Music". The release of the single was also announced in the American music industry magazine Cashbox. The song as well as the lyrics and credits are listed on the Italian music resource "Rockol". The single received favourable reviews, including from DJ and music journalist James Hamilton who, in his first column for Record Mirror, wrote "With a bass line not unlike ‘Bend Me Shape Me’ and some sexy stop/starts, Lynsey makes straight happy pop noises that sound fine to me". It was reported to be a dance floor hit according to a reaction report. Deborah Thomas, music critic at the Daily Mirror wrote "de Paul will captivate her adoring fans with this light, pacey rocker. It was also a Radio Luxembourg "Hot Shot" single as well as a BBC Radio London "Favoured Play" and play listed by BRMB.

"All Night" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Ron Roker. De Paul released her version of the song on 27 April 1973 as her third single released on MAM Records, with arrangements by Martyn Ford and John Bell and produced by de Paul. It features an uncredited male vocal. A slinky, sexy song, it compares a love relationship to that of the spider and a fly. The single is backed by the more socially aware song "Blind Leading the Blind", composed and produced by de Paul. The song was an unusual release since neither the A-side or the B-side featured as tracks on her debut album. "Surprise" had been released a little more than a month earlier and this song was in a different style.

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