Cherry Pop/Cherry Red Records will be releasing Kim Wilde's first three EMI albums on CD, the first 2 on 04/20/2009 and the third on 05/18/09. The CDs will include bonus tracks and expanded liner notes.

KIM WILDE

Released 20/04/09. First time on CD for the debut album by Kim Wilde which reached No.3 in the UK charts when originally issued in 1981. Contains the hit singles ‘Kids In America’ (UK No.2, Australia No.3, USA No.25), ‘Chequered Love’ (UK No.4, Australia No.9) and ‘Water On Glass’ (UK No.11). Two previously non LP B-sides have been added as a bonus and the booklet contains original LP artwork and in-depth liner notes overseen and approved by the Official Fan Club / Website and Kim herself

TRACK LISTING:
1. Water On Glass
2. Our Town
3. Everything We Know
4. Young Heroes
5. Kids In America
6. Chequered Love
7. 2-6-5-8-0
8. You’ll Never Be So Wrong
9. Falling Out
10. Tuning In Tuning Out
Bonus Tracks
11. Shane
12. Boys
13. Water On Glass (7” Version)

SELECT

Released 20/04/09. Kim’s second album, a UK Top 20 hit when originally released in 1982, finally gets a proper CD release. Includes the hit singles ‘Cambodia’ (UK No.12, Australia No.2), ‘View From A Bridge’ (UK No.16, Australia No.2) and ‘Child Come Away’ (UK No.43). As a bonus we have added five previously non LP tracks including the ultra rare ‘Bitter Is Better’

TRACK LISTING:
1. Ego
2. Words Fell Down
3. Action City
4. View From A Bridge
5. Just A Feeling
6. Chaos At The Airport
7. Take Me Tonight
8. Can You Come Over
9. Wendy Sadd
10. Cambodia Reprise
Bonus Tracks
11. Watching For Shapes
12. Cambodia (Single Version)
13. Child Come Away
14. Just Another Guy
15. Bitter Is Better

CATCH AS CATCH CAN

Released 18/05/09. At last a proper CD release for the third album from the ultra successful Kim Wilde. Includes the UK hit singles ‘Love Blonde’ (No.23) and ‘Dancing In The Dark’ (No.67). Now features five rare bonus tracks and comes with a detailed booklet featuring original LP artwork, in-depth liner notes and all relevant picture sleeves.

Still a regular on the nations television screens she remains one of the biggest selling British female vocalists of all time.

TRACK LISTING:
1. House Of Salome
2. Back Street Joe
3. Stay A While
4. Love Blonde
5. Dream Sequence
6. Dancing In The Dark
7. Shoot To Disbale
8. Can You Hear It
9. Sparks
10. Sing It Out For Love
Bonus Tracks
11. Love Blonde (7” Version)
12. Back Seat Driver
13. Love Blonde (12” Version)
14. Dancing In The Dark (Nile Rodgers Re-Mix)
15. Dancing In The Dark (Instrumental)

I have the first one on cd, so it's not the first time on cd like the post says.
It sounds pretty bad so an upgrade could be nice.

D.

True. I also have a copy - on Fame/EMI UK came out around 1990 that is quite good plus a West German Select on ZYX. Catch As Catch Can is very hard to find on CD so that could be interesting.
Bitter Is Better came out on the Japan Pastmasters version of The Very Best (1990) as a bonus track.

I have the first on a domestic CD released by EMI/Capitol in the early days of CDs. It has no liner notes whatsoever! I also have SELECT on Electrola, made in the UK, with a bare bones booklet. I believe CATCH... was released on a Japanese CD, also in the early days of CDs. It will be nice to have these upgraded, both sonically and visually.

I must have the same one, mine has no liner notes either. I noticed on the new cd they changed the running order, that
seems to happen a lot with some reissues. I haven't heard the other 2, I'll probably pick them up, I like the first one enough.

D.

I'm pretty sure that the track listing is the same as the original British RAK release. I agree that it will take some getting used to hearing it in a different order! The other two were very good, especially the very underrated CATCH AS CATCH CAN.

I've never before had "Catch as Catch Can"(though I have some songs via compilation CD's). I had the other two on EMI/UK's budget "Fame" label. I've ordered all three. Ms. Wilde later went on to start a garden design business, though once in while she records.

Here's a great Kim Wilde story. In the 1980's, she had a support slot on a Michael Jackson tour in the UK, and at one show, she showed up and security people wouldn't let her in backstage because her identification had her real name, Kim Smith, so she had to go to a local record store and buy one of her own L.P.'s and bring it back to the concert venue and show this to the security people to prove to them that she was really "Wilde". The name Wilde originated when early British manager Larry Parnes gave Kim's father(an early British rocker really named Reginald Smith) the name "Marty Wilde". Parnes also gave other performers in his management stable names like Billy Fury, Adam Faith, Dickie Pride,Johnny Gentle & Georgie Fame.

To further confuse the name issue, Kim's dad, Marty Wilde, released the single "Abergavenny" in 1969 under the name Shannon--not the same Shannon of "Let the Music Play" fame in 1984.

"Abergavenny" just missed the Top 40, but I had the 45 and fondly recall the song--very "British music hall."

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I bought Catch As Catch can recently and love the sound quality on it - matches my RAK lp - and the packaging.
Recommended.