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Encyclopedia > Wish Thing
Wish Thing
Album by Torch Song
Released 1984
Length ?? min ?? sec
Record label I.R.S.
Torch Song Chronology
Wish Thing
(1984)		 Ectasy
( - )

Wish Thing was Torch Song's first album, released in 1984. At this time, Torch Song consisted of William Orbit, Laurie Mayer (who provided the haunting vocals), and Grant Gilbert. Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... I.R.S. Records was started in the US in 1979 by Miles Copeland (the older brother of Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Orbit 1999 William Orbit (born 1956 as William Wainwright) is a British musician and record producer, best known to the public for producing Madonnas album Ray of Light. ...


Tracklist

  1. "Don't Look Now"
  2. "Telepathy"
  3. "Ode To Billy Joe"
  4. "Another Place"
  5. "Prepare To Energize"
  6. "Tattered Dress"
  7. "Sweet Thing"
  8. "You Said You Were Coming"
  9. "Water Clock Secrets"

Success

The track "Prepare to Energize" was a surprise dance-floor hit, being played in nightclubs and discos as well as appearing in the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Bachelor Party.[1] A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world, and derives its name from the French word discothèque (meaning... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tom Hanks in February 2004 Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor famous for playing notable roles in many popular and critically acclaimed movies. ... This article needs cleanup. ...


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