Cook Da Books (1983)

In 1983 Cook Da Books (Moran, Prescott, Deary and Leggett) became quite big in France after providing a bunch of songs for the teenage movie La Boum 2 (namely Your Eyes, Get it Together, Silverman). Your Eyes went straight to number one. This unexpected success pushed them to plan and release an LP for the French market:

Outch (1983):

- Heart Of Fire
- Rich Men Don’t
- Wouldn’t Want To Knock It
- Sankapou
- Falling
- Piggie In The Middle Eight
- Who Are You To Cry?
- Soho
- This Is Not The Time
- Up In Smoke
- Say Something Good 
(see here)

In the same period they re-release their first single (Piggie in the Middle Eight, this time backed with I Wouldn’t Want to Know it) expressly for the French market. For their Kiteland label they re-released their second single, just reversing the order of the tracks (Low Profile b/w Rich Men Don’t), and in September they put out their third single:

I Wouldn’t Want to Know it (1983)

- I Wouldn’t Want to Know it

- Up in Smoke

- In Da Papers

(see here)

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(Thanks to our friend Mikeyten and his great fade2gray blog)