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"Lee Remick" is the debut single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens. It was released in September 1978 by the Australian independent record label, Able Label, with only 700 copies of the 7" vinyl record produced.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Go-Betweens : Lee Remick )〕 Both songs were re-released on ''The Able Label Singles'' in 1986〔 (together with "People Say" and "Don't Let Him Come Back")〔 and on the 1999 compilation album, ''78 'til 79 The Lost Album''.〔〔 In January 2009 the German label, Little Teddy Recordings,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Go-Betweens – Lee Remick/Karen )〕 re-issued the single for the 30th anniversary of its original release. Only 500 vinyl copies were pressed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Go-Betweens : Lee Remick/Karen )〕 The copies were dubbed from the original vinyl record as the original master tapes of the recordings, which were sent to Beserkley Records in 1988,〔 were subsequently lost and are presumed to have been destroyed in a fire. ==History== In the late 1970s Grant McLennan, who was working part-time at the Toowong Music Centre, a small independent record store, suggested to the owner, Damien Nelson, that they establish a record label.〔 Note: () version has limited functionality.〕 With funding from Nelson, McLennan and Forster they established the Able Label.〔 The first release on the new label was the Go-Betweens' "Lee Remick". The song was recorded at Window Studios on 16 May 1978 (the same studio that The Saints had recorded "(I'm) Stranded" eighteen months earlier), with Dennis Cantwell, the drummer of fellow Brisbane band, The Numbers.〔〔 Note: Archived () copy has limited functionality.〕 In David Nichols' seminal book on the Go-Betweens, Forster recalls that the selection of the studio was fortunate "We got it out of the phone book. It was twenty-four track, it had good microphones. We did it in three hours. It would have been only the twentieth time we'd played those songs ever."〔 The single however was not released until September as Nelson, Forster and McLennan, who were essentially ignorant about the vinyl-pressing process, had ordered a thousand labels for the record, with each one having to be moistened and individually applied to the record by hand.〔 Nelson stating "We got 700 of these singles back, then we got the labels for the A-side and the B-side. And we just sat around the table sticking them on."〔 By the time the single was released the group had appointed the band's first full-time drummer, Temucin Mustafa, who is listed on the sleeve as a member of the band even though he didn't play on the recordings.〔〔 The single's sleeve depicts Forster and McLennan alongside portraits of Bob Dylan, Che Guevara and Lee Remick.〔〔 In a subsequent interview Forster recalls "It was one of the first songs I wrote. I wanted to write a love song. But I wasn't in love with anyone, so I just projected it towards that screen image. I didn't know anyone I felt strongly enough about to write a love song for."〔 He also stated "I didn't have a girlfriend or any sort of romantic side to my life ... I wanted to write a love song. But who was I in love with? No-one. I had to find someone and I found Lee Remick". The B-side to the single, "Karen", was written as a tribute to the University of Queensland library staff. Forster states "'Karen' is a song I wrote while I was there (of Queensland ). I spent a lot of time in the libraries and the librarians had this stillness about them I found very attractive." and "They reminded me a little of nuns in a convent. There was kindness in the library, then you walk out of the library into the harsh real world."〔 In January 1979 the group claimed to have sold over 500 copies of the single, with copies distributed in Sydney and Melbourne by Robert Vickers (a member of The Numbers), along with copies of his band's single, "Sunset Strip", also on the Able Label.〔〔 Vickers later became the bass guitarist for the band, between the 1983 and 1987. The Go-Betweens used "Lee Remick" as a promotional tool, sending copies to magazines and record labels around the world.〔 This resulted in the English arm of US label Beserkley Records, contacting the group and offering them a contract,〔 for "Lee Remick" and "Karen" to be re-issued as separate singles, a further two singles to be recorded, followed by an eight album deal.〔〔 Beserkley Records however dissolved before the band were able to finalise the contract.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lee Remick (The Go-Betweens song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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