Preacher Man

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"Preacher Man"
Single by Bananarama
from the album Pop Life
B-side"Megalomaniac"
ReleasedDecember 1990
Recorded1990
Genre
Length
  • 3:15 (Album Version)
  • 3:38 (Alternative 7-Inch Mix)
London Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Youth
Bananarama singles chronology
"Only Your Love"
(1990) 		"Preacher Man"
(1990) 		"
Long Train Running
"
(1991)
Music video
"Preacher Man" on
YouTube

"Preacher Man" is a song recorded by English

Youth with additional production and remix by Shep Pettibone
.

"

London Records decided "Preacher Man" was a better choice for a single and so it was released in December 1990. "Tripping on Your Love
" was eventually released as the album's fourth single.

The pop/dance tune became the highest-charting and biggest-selling single released from the Pop Life album, climbing to number 20 in the

ARIA singles chart.[1]
"Preacher Man" was not released in the United States.

The song was performed on The Original Line Up Tour in 2017-2018. Despite being recorded after she left, original member Siobhan Fahey has always liked the song[citation needed] and chose to include it in the setlist.

Critical reception

Everett True from

indie-dance-glossover single is one."[4]

Gary Crossing from Record Mirror called the song "a supremely contagious dance offering... This has a powerful, gloopy bassline and a wondrous bluesy harmonica bit in the middle".[5] Caroline Sullivan from Smash Hits felt the song sounded like "everything they did with S/A/W", noting "the chugging beat, same slick strings and the harmonica solo."[6] In review of 5 January 1991, Paul Elliott of Sounds considered that this song "melds '70s and '90s dance sounds." In the end Elliott summarized: "Produced by Youth and remixed by Shep Pettibone, it throbs yet sparkles, evocative of the dreamiest, most hypnotic and heady '70s disco raves."[7]

Music video

The accompanying music video for the song featured a man in a tank top tied to a chair in the interrogation room of a prison. As he breaks down and goes crazy, Bananarama and various carnival-like entertainers (such as a midget and a girl in a winged outfit) appear as hallucinations before him. These scenes are intercut with scenes of the girls performing the song in front of candles or standing against a wall. Harmonica player Johnny Mars appears on the video.[8] The video was directed by long-time collaborator Andy Morahan and would be the last video he directed for the group until "Stuff Like That" from In Stereo in 2019. [9]

Official versions and remixes

  1. "Preacher Man" (Album Version) - (3:15)
  2. "Preacher Man" (Ramabanana Alternative Mix) - (7:31) (Remixed by Shep Pettibone)
  3. "Preacher Man" (Shep's Club Mix) - (7:19) (Remixed by Shep Pettibone)
  4. "Preacher Man" (Shep's Dub Mix) - (4:44) (Remixed by Shep Pettibone)
  5. "Preacher Man" (Bonus Beats Dub) (Remixed by Shep Pettibone)
  6. "Preacher Man" (Shep's Instrumental) (Remixed by Shep Pettibone)
  7. "Preacher Man" (Alternative 7" Mix) - (3:38) (Remixed by Shep Pettibone)
  8. "Preacher Man" (Original 12" Mix) - (6:07) (Unreleased until 2013)

Personnel

Bananarama

Musicians

  • Peter 'Ski' Schwartz - Keyboards

Charts

Chart (1990) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 147
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[10] 40
Europe (
Eurochart Hot 100
) 		57
Germany (Official Charts Company)[10] 46
Ireland (IRMA) 11
Italy (Musica e dischi) 42
UK Singles (OCC
) 		20
UK Dance (Music Week)[11]
 22

References

  1. ^ a b "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2014-06-17". imgur.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  2. ^ True, Everett (5 January 1991). "Singles". Melody Maker. p. 27. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  3. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. 19 January 1991. p. 16. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  4. NME
    . p. 18. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  5. ^ Crossing, Gary (5 January 1991). "Singles". Record Mirror. p. 11. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (9 January 1991). "Review: Singles". Smash Hits. No. 316. p. 49. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  7. ^ Elliott, Paul (5 January 1991). "Review: Bananarama – "Preacher Man"" (PDF). Sounds. Peterborough: United Newspapers. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022 – via World Radio History.
  8. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  9. ^ "Bananarama: Stuff Like That". IMDb. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  10. ^ a b "BANANARAMA - PREACHER MAN (SONG)". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Top 60 Dance Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 12 January 1991. p. xii. Retrieved 28 September 2020.


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