Annotation
From the album notes: 'Sally' was a song about Mike's feelings for his girlfriend Sally Cooper. Sung by Mike and Nico Ramsden, it contained the chorus "Sally, I'm just a gorilla, I'll say I'll love you ever more/Even an ape from Manila couldn't stop me knocking on your door". On hearing this, Virgin boss Richard Branson took an instant disliking to the song and demanded that it should be removed from the album, to be replaced by 'Into Wonderland' sung by Wendy Roberts (although when interviewed by David Porter in 1995, Wendy Roberts said she thought that the track which she recorded was called Sally, and knew nothing of what had gone on with the replacing of the original song). Some copies had already been pressed, so the early pressings of the LP contain the song Sally. All the rest contain Into Wonderland, although the album artwork was never updated, so the labels still say Sally (as do the CDs I've seen).
The original pressing with the 'real' Sally-track is here: http://musicbrainz.org/release/f40470b9-007f-4daa-8040-df09999816ca.html
Tracklist
Credits
Release
photography: | Trevor Key (photographer and designer) |
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additional engineer: | Renate Blauel Richard Manwaring (Producer) |
engineer: | Kurt Munkacsi Tom Newman (producer, guitarist) |
producer: | Tom Newman (producer, guitarist) |
mastering: | Simon Heyworth (from 2000-03 until 2000-04) |
acoustic guitar, electric guitar, marimba, piano, synthesizer and vibraphone: | Mike Oldfield |
guest bass: | Francisco Centeno Neil Jason (bassist) Hansford Rowe |
guest congas: | Demalza |
guest keyboard: | Peter Lemer (English jazz musician) Nico Ramsden |
guest membranophone: | Morris Pert Allan Schwartzberg |
guest membranophone and vibraphone: | Pierre Moerlen |
guest tubular bells: | Sally Cooper |
vocals: | Mike Oldfield |
additional arranger: | David Bedford (composer) Peter Gordon (composer, producer and orchestrator) Michael Riesman (American composer, conductor, keyboardist) |
mastered at: | Chop ’em Out in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2000-03 until 2000-04) |
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Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/750887 [info] |
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ASIN: | UK: B00004T9AL [info] |
other databases: | https://www.musik-sammler.de/media/1131264/ [info] |
Release group
included in: | Classic Album Selection (Six Albums 1973–1980) |
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Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/18160 [info] |
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lyrics page: | https://genius.com/albums/Mike-oldfield/Platinum [info] |
other databases: | https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mike-oldfield/platinum/ [info] https://www.musik-sammler.de/album/13045/ [info] |
Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000650590 [info] |
Wikidata: | Q929074 [info] |