Pickin' Up Pieces

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"Pickin' Up Pieces"
Pickin' Up Pieces 12" Single-Netherlands.jpg
Polydor 12" released in the Netherlands
Single by Brenda K. Starr
from the album I Want Your Love
Released1985
RecordedShakedown Studios
Genre Freestyle, electro
Length6:38
Label Mirage/Atlantic (U.S.)
Songwriter(s) Lotti Golden, Arthur Baker
Producer(s) Arthur Baker

"Pickin' Up Pieces" is the lead single from Brenda K. Starr's debut album, I Want Your Love , released in 1985 by Mirage Records. The song was produced by Arthur Baker, who co-wrote it with Lotti Golden. [1] The single, released in 1985, was a sizable hit on the Dance/Club Songs chart. It reached a peak of #9 on that chart the same year, [2] and also managed to chart on the R&B chart at the time - reaching a peak of #83. [3]

The single was an early Freestyle release - marked with syncopated rhythms and intense synthetic production. Lyrically, the song is about "Picking up the pieces" and moving on after a failed relationship. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Brenda K. Starr – Pickin' Up Pieces (1985, Vinyl) , retrieved 2021-08-30
  2. ↑ "Brenda K. Starr". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  3. ↑ "Brenda K. Starr". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  4. ↑ Brenda K. Starr – Pickin' Up Pieces (1985, Vinyl) , retrieved 2021-08-30
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