It's Your Move (song)

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"It's Your Move"
Song by Doug Parkinson
from the album Heartbeat to Heartbeat
Released28 March 1983
Genre Soft rock
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tommy Emmanuel

"It's Your Move" is a song by Doug Parkinson, released in March 1983 on the album Heartbeat to Heartbeat. [1]

Contents

America version

"Your Move"
Single by America
from the album Your Move
B-side "Love's Worn Out Again"
ReleasedJune 1983
Recorded1983
Studio Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre
Length3:19
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s)
  • Steve Kipner
  • Terry Shaddick

A few months after the song's initial release, it was released by the band America, retitled "Your Move", from their album of the same name. [2] It was released as a 7" single in Italy on Capitol Records. [3]

Diana Ross version

"It's Your Move"
Song by Diana Ross
from the album Swept Away
Released13 September 1984 [4] [5]
Genre
Length3:34
Label RCA
Songwriter(s)
  • Steve Kipner
  • Terry Shaddick

In 1984, Diana Ross covered the song. It appears on the album Swept Away . [6] This version was later sampled in the 2011 vaporwave song "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー" ("Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing") by Macintosh Plus, [7] where it was slowed down and chopped and screwed, with the pitch changed. It became an Internet meme worldwide. [8]

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