Right Back Where We Started From

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"Right Back Where We Started From"
R&B, disco
Length3:18
LabelUnited Artists
Songwriter(s)Pierre Tubbs and J. Vincent Edwards
Producer(s)J. Vincent Edwards, Pierre Tubbs
Maxine Nightingale singles chronology
"Love on Borrowed Time"
(1971) 		"Right Back Where We Started From"
(1975) 		"Gotta Be the One"
(1976)
Music video
"Right Back Where We Started From" on
YouTube

"Right Back Where We Started From" is a song written by

UK Singles Chart. The music features a significant repetitive sample from the song "Goodbye, Nothing to Say", written by Stephen Jameson and Marshall Doctores, which was recorded first by Jameson under the name of Nosmo King, and then by the Javells featuring Nosmo King (UK #26),[2] both in 1974.[3][4]

Maxine Nightingale version

In the UK

In a 3 May 2008 interview with

Motown songwriting team of Holland–Dozier–Holland. A rough demo featuring Edwards' vocal was cut the next day and it was Edwards, who had performed with Nightingale in the West End production of Hair
, who approached Nightingale with an offer for her to record the song.

Nightingale recorded "Right Back Where We Started From" within a week of Edwards offering her the song, although she had initially refused, succumbing to Edwards' persuasion only on the condition that the track be released under a pseudonym. Edwards also had to convince Nightingale to accept a

The Worst That Could Happen". Nightingale had opined to Rolling Stone
that Edwards' vocal on the demo was "pretty horrendous".

"Right Back Where We Started From" was recorded at Central Sound Studio a small demo studio on Denmark Street near Soho. Personnel on the session included two former members of the Electric Light Orchestra, bass guitarist Mike de Albuquerque and violinist Wilfred Gibson (who did the strings arrangement).[5] In the WFMU interview, Edwards identified other players on the session as drummer Pete Kircher and keyboardist Dave Rowberry. Also, Tubbs played guitar and Edwards provided percussion. Nightingale would advise Rolling Stone that she had disliked Tubbs's utilization of both a crashing keyboard arrangement and heavy hand claps; she was also discomforted by being required to sing in a higher key than she was accustomed to.

Mike de Albuquerque recalled, "We were doing...one of those demo sessions where everybody goes and sits down with music in front of you and you try and get through as many tunes as possible....I remember [Pierre Tubbs]...saying, listen guys, I want to record in entirety four pieces in this three hour session...and we recorded two pieces with Maxine and two with somebody else....[Let] me stress, it was a demo session that this multi million selling thing came out of, it wasn't let's go and remake it... it was the original demo session....[That] multi million selling recording, I would think, cost [Tubbs] less than a £100 if you put the other tracks into the pudding".[6]

Released within two weeks of its recording by

UK Singles Chart dated 29 November 1975.[7]

In the US

United Artists issued "Right Back Where We Started From" in the US in January 1976, and the single entered the charts in February to rise as high as #2 on the

Gold certification
for sales of a million units.

"Right Back Where We Started From" also appeared on Billboard's

Adult Contemporary and Black Singles charts at #5 and #46, respectively.[8]

Following the single's US success, Nightingale completed a Right Back Where We Started From album with Tubbs producing; Billboard ranked the album at #65.[9]

Personnel

Charts

Soundtrack appearances

"Right Back Where We Started From" was prominently featured in the 1977 film

24/7, which focused on the 2011 NHL Winter Classic, "Right Back Where We Started From" was played over footage of the Pittsburgh Penguins traveling to the game, as an homage to Slap Shot. As a similar homage, the song is played after home wins by the New York Islanders, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Sheffield Steelers, while the New York Rangers played the song in their locker room after home wins during the 2013-14 season. TD Garden organist Ron Poster occasionally plays the song during Boston Bruins games, and The Hanson Brothers (who were named after a group of characters in Slap Shot) recorded a punk rock version of the song for the soundtrack of Slap Shot 3: The Junior League, under the title "Get it Right Back".[22]

Other film appearances include

Yours, Mine and Ours, The Family Stone, College Road Trip, An Extremely Goofy Movie (covered by Cleopatra), Shrek Forever After and Parental Guidance. It also appears in the second season premiere of the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy
.

The Walt Disney Company used the song as part of their D-TV music video series. The music video featured clips from the Disney cartoons Hold That Pose and Donald's Camera.

Sinitta version

"Right Back Where We Started From"
Single by Sinitta
from the album Wicked
B-side"I Just Can't Help It"
ReleasedMay 1989[23]
Recorded1989
GenreDance-pop
Length3:16
LabelFanfare Records
Songwriter(s)J. Vincent Edwards, Pierre Tubbs
Producer(s)Pete Hammond
Sinitta singles chronology
"
I Don't Believe In Miracles
"
(1988) 		"Right Back Where We Started From"
(1989) 		"Love on a Mountain Top"
(1989)
Music video
"Right Back Where We Started From" on
YouTube

A 1989 cover version of "Right Back Where We Started From" was released by American-born British

pop/R&B singer Sinitta and included on her second album, Wicked (1989). It was released as the album's second single in June 1989 by Fanfare Records and met with success, attaining the top 20 in many countries, including the UK where it reached number four. Later, "Right Back Where We Started From" served as the title cut for a Sinitta retrospective
released in 2009.

Critical reception

Bill Coleman from

the Stocks' contribution) and not as well sung (due to Sinitta's). Still, it always was a supreme disco classic and it would take a right duffer to mess this one up."[26] Retrospectively, in a 2023 review of the parent album, the Pop Rescue website called "Right Back Where We Started From" "a wonderfully up-beat and bouncy song from the start" and a "catchy hit".[27]

Chart performance

"Right Back Where We Started From" was by far the most successful single from the Wicked album. It started at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart on 3 June 1989, reached number four for two weeks and fell off the chart after ten weeks.

Eurochart Hot 100 compiled by the Music & Media magazine, it debuted at number 65 on 10 June 1989, peaked at number 15 in its third week and counted 11 weeks on the chart.[36] It had an eight-week chart run on the European Airplay Top 50, with a peak at number eight.[37]

Outside Europe, "Right Back Where We Started From" was a hit single in New Zealand and Australia where it reached number two and number seven, respectively; in both countries, it charted for 17 weeks.[38][39] It received a gold disc, awarded by the Australian Recording Industry Association.[40] It became the singer's only charting single in her native US, reaching number 84 on Billboard's Hot 100 and number 48 on the magazine's Hot Dance Chart (Maxi-single sales).

Track listings

  • 7" single
  1. "Right Back Where We Started From" - 3:16
  2. "I Just Can't Help It" - 3:43
  • 12" single
  1. "Right Back Where We Started From" (Left Back On The Side Mix) - 7:12
  2. "I Just Can't Help It" - 3:43
  3. "Right Back Where We Started From" - 3:16

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Right Back Where We Started From" by Sinitta
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[40] Gold 35,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[29] Gold 400,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Other versions

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