Tam-Tam (album)

Tam-Tam
Studio album by Amanda Lear
Released December 1983
(See release history)
Recorded 1983 at Regson Studios in Milan
Genre Pop, Italo Disco
Length 33:02
Label Ariola-Eurodisc
Producer Roberto Cacciapaglia
Amanda Lear chronology
Ieri, Oggi
(1982/83)		 Tam-Tam
(1983)		 A L
(1985)
Alternative cover
Russian compilation CD Tam-Tam/Secret Passion.
Singles from Tam-Tam
  1. "No Regrets"
    Released: 1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic ( [1]

Tam-Tam is the sixth studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in December, 1983 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. After a series of charttopping albums and hit singles all through the late Seventies and early Eighties Tam-Tam became Lear's final and least-successful album for Ariola.

Contents

Album information

Tam-Tam was Lear's first full-length release not to be produced in Munich by Anthony Monn, her last with Ariola and was mainly only recorded to fulfill her contract with the label. Although Lear performed some of the songs on the Italian Saturday TV show Premiatissima, "Tam Tam", "Gipsy Man", "Bewitched", "No Regrets" and the unreleased Italian version of "Music is", Magica. She didn't promote the album in the rest of Europe and neither did the record company because of their complicated relationship at the time. While "No Regrets" was released as a single in Italy Ariola chose not to issue any singles from the album in the rest of the world. Tam-Tam subsequently turned out to be a disappointment both artistically and commercially.

Tam-Tam had been preceded by double A-side single "Love Your Body"/"Darkness And Light", both tracks synth-disco á la Moroder '83 recorded in Munich with producer Monn's sound engineer Peter Lüdemann in charge of arrangement and production, which had been a minor hit in West Germany, France and Scandinavia. These two tracks were unfortunately not included on the comparatively unsuccessful Tam-Tam.

The rights to the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are currently held by Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Tam-Tam was released as a mid-priced compilation CD combined with 1987's Secret Passion in Russia in 2001, but remains unreleased on compact disc in the rest of the world.

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Tam Tam" (A. Lear, Villahermosa, R. Cacciapaglia) - 3:37
  2. "Bewitched" (A. Lear, Carasco, Cacciapaglia, P. Nicolosi, L. Nicolosi) - 4:32
  3. "Wicked Lady" (A. Lear, R. Cacciapaglia) - 4:27
  4. "No Regrets" (A. Lear, P. Micioni, M. DiCarlo, R. Masala) - 4:28

Side B

  1. "Magic" (A. Lear, R.Cacciapaglia) - 4:14
  2. "It's All Over" (A. Lear, Menegale, Ferrato) - 3:39
  3. "Gipsy Man" (A. Lear, Carrasco, Nicolosi P.L.R.D.) - 4:29
  4. "Music Is" (A. Lear, R. Cacciapaglia) - 3:36

Credits

Personnel

Production

Release history

Release format Country Label Cat. No. Release date
Vinyl Worldwide Ariola 203 450-320 1983
Vinyl West Germany Ariola 205 895-320 1983
Vinyl Italy Ariola ARL 39175 1983
Cassette Italy Ariola 30 ARL 39175 1983
Vinyl Argentina Ariola 80268 1984

Single releases

7"

12"

References

  1. ^ "Tam-Tam Review". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r610468. Retrieved 2009-04-13. 

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