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Topic: Stacy Lattisaw - Attack Of The Name Game
Posted: 14 May 2014 at 11:35pm

Firstly, apologies for requesting information about a non-
Top 40 hit. This one only made it to #70, I believe.

The LP version runs 6:21. The 45 version contains several
edits and runs about 3:54.

My question is: does anyone know if the 45 version has
shown up on CD at all? And if so, on which disc(s)?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Posted: 15 May 2014 at 6:27pm

Bwci Bo, the version on both her U.S. "The Very Best Of Stacy Lattisaw" CD on
Rhino, and her original "Sneakin' Out" LP reissue on CD both feature the LP
version. I only checked the latter, hoping to find that your desired 45v
might've been included as a bonus track there - it wasn't.

I would be absolutely stunned if any CD in the world contains the 1982 45
version for "Attack Of The Name Game", I'm sad to say.

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Posted: 17 May 2014 at 2:23am

OMG 'KTU in NY used to play this and I owned this 45
once. I had completely forgotten about this record until I
saw this post. Holy blast from the past..I had to go to
youtube and play it. YUP... they played this a lot!

As for the game itself, I'm more into the traditional
Shirley Ellis game ... Banana-Fana Fo Firly....etc.

MM

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Posted: 18 May 2014 at 3:23am

jimct wrote:

I would be absolutely stunned if any CD in
the world contains the 1982 45 version for
"Attack Of The Name Game", I'm sad to say.

Thanks jimct. I thought it was pretty unlikely too, but it
was worth a shot just in case someone had encountered it on
an import 80s compilation. In the meantime I've made my
own custom edit, based on a 45 I found on YouTube.

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Posted: 18 May 2014 at 7:50am

I'll chime in too on this one - I loved pretty much everything Stacy Lattisaw did while she was on Cotillion. I'm not sure if the promotion just wasn't right, or what the deal was, but I can't believe she couldn't get at least one top ten hit out of her run on that label. "Miracles" is still a beautiful record that belies its low #40 peak.

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Posted: 18 May 2014 at 8:33am

I agree with everything you say, Frank. "Miracles" would have easily been a #1 hit if instead it was recorded a couple years later by Whitney Houston. I was so glad when Stacy's last Cotillion and first Motown albums were finally released on CD (in the past 5 years), more than 25 years after the LPs were. Great songs on them.

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Posted: 18 May 2014 at 1:37pm

To the best of my knowledge, the 45 version of "Attack Of The Name Game" has never been issued on anything other than the original 45, not even on a re-issue 45.

I agree that "Miracles" is an overlooked gem and can't understand why it wasn't a bigger hit.

Frederick Knight had originally written "Ring My Bell" for Stacy Lattisaw, but when that deal fell through he rewrote some of the lyrics and it became a #1 song for Anita Ward.