Hunting High and Low (song)
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| "Hunting High and Low" | ||
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| Single by a-ha | ||
| from the album Hunting High and Low | ||
| A-side(s) | Hunting High and Low | |
| B-side(s) | The Blue Sky (Demo Version) | |
| Released | 2nd June 1986 | |
| Format | 7", 12" | |
| Recorded | 1985 | |
| Genre | Synth Pop | |
| Length | 3:43 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Writer(s) | Pål Waaktaar | |
| Producer(s) | Tony Mansfield | |
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| a-ha singles chronology | ||
| Train of Thought (1986) |
Hunting High and Low (1986) |
I've Been Losing You (1986) |
"Hunting High and Low" a-ha's fifth single Produced by Tony Mansfield and Remixed by John Ratcliff was from the album of the same name
Beginning with a bang, a-ha's debut album sold more than eight million copies worldwide and spawned three #1 hits. In the fall of 1986, "Take On Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." were nominated for 11 MTV Video Awards combined, and a-ha won eight of these.
In June 1986, a-ha began a world tour which carried on through August 1987. The band had never played a single concert when "Take On Me" shot to #1 in America; soon they could boast a 16-country, 113-city tour under their belt along with countless interviews and television appearances. With "Hunting High and Low" a-ha had arrived.
World Sales:2.500.000
[edit] Tracklisting
7" Single:
- "Hunting High and Low"
- "The Blue Sky" (demo version)
12" Single:
- "Hunting High and Low" (extended)
- "Hunting High and Low" (remix)
- "The Blue Sky" (demo version)
[edit] Video
This was the last video from the band's debut album which was Directed by Steve Barron
The UK TV show "Blue Peter" featured a making-of-the-video special on "Hunting High and Low" to demonstrate the morphing effects of Morten into animals.
The Video starts with a lonely Morten walking across as snowy landscape, which then cuts to a silhouette of the band in a studio Morten on Vocals, Mags on Piano and Pål on Guitar. The film then cuts back to show Morten turn into an Eagle using animation and fly off across the snowscape into a city. With the orchestral part of the song starting the video then goes back to the silhouettes of the band this time with an orchestra animated like a rotoscope. With Morten now back again as a human he is seen standing this time on top of a cliff face about to dive off of it when he does he turns into a shark and swims off across the ocean. As the film continues a woman is shown on a beach who see's the shark and steps into the water, all of a sudden two hunters spear the shark and try to drag it onto the beach. As they do so the Shark turns into a Lion and runs off into the wilderness... As the film moves toward the end the silhouettes of Morten, Magne and Pal become full colour....and a Hunter is seen lining up the Lion in his sights, about to shoot the woman from the beach stops the hunter, the Lion looks on and lives for another day.
The basic idea behind the video is that love brings a man back in various forms to be near the woman he loves.
Coldplay has been known to perform this song in concert, with a special nod to the band of their initial inspiration.
