Longplay Album – Volume II

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Longplay Album - Volume II
Opus (Czechoslovakia)
ProducerJaap Eggermont
Stars on 45 chronology
Long Play Album
(1981) 		Longplay Album - Volume II
(1981) 		The Superstars
(1982)

Longplay Album – Volume II is the second album by the Dutch soundalike studio group

Opus
, credited to Stars On 45 but under the title Stars on 45 - Volume II.

Information

The second Stars On 45 single in Europe was entitled "

Sly & the Family Stone's "Dance to the Music", The Rubettes' "Sugar Baby Love", The Flower Pot Men's "Let's Go to San Francisco", America's "A Horse with No Name", The Mamas & the Papas' "Monday, Monday" and "California Dreaming", Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction", Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' "Tears of a Clown", The Supremes' "Stop! In The Name of Love", Neil Diamond's "Cracklin Rosie", Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", The Toys' "A Lover's Concerto", Four Tops' "Reach Out I'll Be There" and finally Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence
". In the US where ABBA's popularity wasn't on the same scale as in Europe or most other parts of the world at the time, Radio Records instead chose the first part of the medley, starting with "Papa Was A Rolling Stone", and released it as the follow-up to the second Beatles medley, but under the same title; "More Stars". The 12" mix of "More Stars", or "Stars On 45 Volume 2" as it was renamed in the U.K., was the same on both sides of the Atlantic.

For the creation of the second Stars On 45 full-length release producer Jaap Eggermont repeated the process from the previous album by dividing the 12" mix of "More Stars" into two parts. The ABBA medley was extended with another six titles and placed on Side B followed by a seven-minute extended version of the "More Stars" single's B-side "'45 Stars Get Ready", written by Eggermont himself and musical arranger Martin Duiser and featured an entirely new instrumental part which later on would be released as the B-side of "

Volume III
" ("Star Wars and Other Hits") and would be renamed "Stars On Theme".

The soul/R&B/folk rock part of the 12" "More Stars" medley was placed as track two on Side A, with two of the titles, the

Motown Records
in 1981 seized the opportunity and re-issued the 1977 medley "The Diana Ross and The Supremes Medley of Hits" which featured six original Supremes recordings overdubbed with a similar disco arrangement. The Stars on 45 "Supremes Medley" consequently remained an album track.

The opening title "Star Wars and Other Hits" (on the US edition renamed "Introductions" and placed as the closing track on Side A) strung together an assortment of instrumental intros to songs from a wide variety of genres, from well-known movie themes like "Star Wars" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", TV sitcom themes like "M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)", the main theme from

Volume III" (in the U.K. as "Stars on 45 Volume 3" by Starsound) and became their third UK Top 20 hit, peaking at #17. Unlike the two previous 12" releases with Stars On 45 it did not feature additional tracks, but had an extended break combining the Stars On 45 theme song with Foxy
's "Get Off". The 12" version lists 5:57, 47 seconds longer than the album version. The B-side was entitled "Stars On Theme", an alternate mix of an instrumental part from the album version of "'45 Stars Get Ready", and expanded with the same extended break that featured on the A-side of Volume III, including the reference to Foxy's "Get Off".

(*) = not included on the US release "Introductions".

The Longplay Album – Volume II/Stars On Long Play II/Stars On 45 Volume 2 album in its entirety and in its original form, including single B-sides was reissued digitally in September 2021.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Star Wars and Other Hits" (UK title: "The Instrumental Medley") - 5:15 (US: - 4:25)

2. "More Stars" (UK title: "The 60's Medley") - 6:25

3. "The Supremes Medley" - 6:10

All tracks written by

Holland-Dozier-Holland
unless otherwise noted

Side B

1. "ABBA Medley" - 8:35

All tracks written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus unless otherwise noted

2. "'45 Stars Get Ready" (Eggermont, Duiser) - 7:08

Charts

Chart (1981–1982) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[1] 82

Personnel

Production

Sources and external links

References

  1. ISBN 0-646-11917-6
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