Here's a blurb I found interesting about the Boomtang Boys' cover of BSN...this one of 
course appeared on our Volume 4 (The Power of Cheese) even though it's more camp than 
cheese, and Vince, one you can probably use in your aerobics classes...

Bob

NP: Shelby Lynne, "Why Can't You Be?"

"The best of the lot are Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" (sung by Kim Esty), 
T-Rex's "Bang A Gong" (sung by Radiate's Devin Mason) and the hidden track, Joni 
Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (sung by Emese Zaduban, an artist The Boomtang Boys might 
sign to its label). 

Why the crystalline wistfulness of "Both Sides Now" is buried in the hidden portion of 
the CD, even after an alternate hidden mix of Hot Butter's "Popcorn" has pumped its 
course, is a mystery. Melodic, reflective and a song with some substance, it just 
might be the recognizable hit Virgin International needs to break pop charts all over 
the world. 

"For some reason, somebody at the record label thought that putting on a cover of a 
Judy Collins song -- that's the way they put it. It's Joni Mitchell but Judy had the 
big hit -- would actually be detrimental to the sales of the album, which just blew my 
mind. So (our A&R guy) decided it would be put on the album as a hidden track." 

Paul, who DJs six nights a week locally and has developed a keen sense for what the 
movers and shakers want (the reason record labels have gone to The Boomtang Boys in 
the first place to get the team's treatment on singles), says he actually uses that 
track to reinstate life to the dancefloor when he's played a "bad" song. 

"Depending on the night, 'cause I play two very house nights and wouldn't play it on 
those nights, but the more commercial nights, if I screw up and play something that 
clears the floor, I grab it and put it on and I'll get all the people back on the 
floor again." 

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