''Chasanova'' is the second solo studio album by the English singer and multi-instrumentalist

Chaz Jankel Charles Jeremy "Chaz" Jankel (born 16 April 1952) is an English musician. In a music career spanning more than 40 years, he came to prominence in the late 1970s as the guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. With ...

. It was originally released in 1981, on the label A&M. The album was also released under the title ''Questionnaire''. The album was recorded over a period of seven months between January and July 1981, in sessions that took place at Eastcote Products Recording Studios, in

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. The album featured major lyrical contributions from

Ian Dury Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 27 March 2000) was a British singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Ian Dury and the Blockheads ...

and musical contributions from two of

the Blockheads The Blockheads are an English rock band formed in London in 1977. Originally fronted by lead singer Ian Dury as Ian Dury and the Blockheads or Ian and the Blockheads, the band has continued to perform since Dury's death in 2000. Current member ...

, bassist

Norman Watt-Roy Norman Joseph Watt-Roy (born 15 February 1951) is an English musician, arranger and composer. Watt-Roy's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music as the bas ...

and drummer Charlie Charles and also contained the US dance hit " Glad to Know You", which was one of the tracks with lyrics written by Dury, plus the

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

music video of its title track.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ;"109" *

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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of th ...

;

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

;

Wurlitzer The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...

; claptrap;

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

;

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

;

Oberheim OB-X The Oberheim OB-X was the first of Oberheim's OB-series polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizers. First commercially available in June 1979, the OB-X was introduced to compete with the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which had been succes ...

; clavinet *

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bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

Peter Van Hooke Peter Van Hooke (born 6 April 1950) is an English rock drummer and producer with over 350 credits to his name. He was the drummer for the English band Mike + The Mechanics (from 1984 to 1995) and also drummed for Van Morrison's band, Headstone ...

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Linn LM-1 The Linn LM-1 Drum Computer is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics and released in 1980. It was the first drum machine to use samples of acoustic drums, and one of the first programmable drum machines. Its designer, the American e ...

programming *Laura Weymouth –

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

;"Johnny Funk" *Chaz Jankel – lead vocals; guitars; Oberheim OB-X; Hammond organ;

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

; simulated car crash *Peter Van Hooke – Linn LM-1 programming;

tom-toms A tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language. It was added to the drum kit in the early part of the 20th century. Most toms range in size between in diameter, though floor toms can go as l ...

; gourd shaker *Chris Warwick – Oberheim programming micro composer *Steve Prestage – simulated car crash *Philip Bagenal – simulated car crash *Ingrid Mansfield Allman – backing vocals ;"Now You're Dancing" *Chaz Jankel – lead vocals; guitars; piano; Hammond organ; Oberheim OB-X; tom-toms; sound effects other than bells *Norman Watt-Roy – bass guitar *Peter Van Hooke – Linn LM-1 programming *Chris Warwick – Oberheim programming *Philip Bagenal – bells * Tessa Webb – backing vocals *Pepe Lemer – backing vocals *Jo Collins – backing vocals *Mick Leeson – backing vocals *Pete Vale – backing vocals *Alan Carvell – backing vocals ;"Magic of Music" *Chaz Jankel – lead vocals; Oberheim OB-X; percussion *

Mick Jacques Curved Air are an English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk, and electronic sound. The resulting sound of the band is a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fu ...

– guitar *Cecil Roy-Doeman –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

*Kuma Harada – bass guitar * Rico Rodriguez –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

Dick Cuthell Dick Cuthell is a British musician and record producer. He plays flugelhorn, cornet, and trumpet, amongst a range of other brass instruments, including tenor horn and valve trombone. Cuthell is best known for his work with The SpecialsStrong, Ma ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

*Groko – percussion *Janie Romer – backing vocals *Laura Weymouth – backing vocals ;"Glad to Know You" *Chaz Jankel – lead vocals; piano; Hammond organ; Oberheim OB-X; bass guitar *Peter Van Hooke – Linn LM-1 programming;

Simmons SDS-V The Simmons SDS 5, SDSV, or Simmons Drum Synthesizer (notated as ''SDS-V'' on the following) was the first viable electronic replacement for acoustic drums. It was developed by Richard James Burgess and Dave Simmons, manufactured initially by Mu ...

*Mickey Feat – bass guitar *Tessa Webb – backing vocals *Pepe Lemer – backing vocals *Jo Collins – backing vocals *Ingrid Mansfield Allman – backing vocals ;"Boy" *Chaz Jankel – lead vocals;

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

; piano; Hammond organ; guitar; claptrap *Charlie Charles – drums *Norman Watt-Roy – bass guitar ;"Questionnaire" *Chaz Jankel – lead vocals; piano; electric piano *Charlie Charles – drums;

bongos Bongos ( es, bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. They are struck with both hands, most commonly in an eight-stroke pattern called ''martillo'' (hammer). The ...

;

timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfi ...

solo *Norman Watt-Roy – bass guitar *Bill Skeat –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

*Bob Sydor – alto saxophone *Malcolm Griffith – trombone * Henry Lowther – trumpet *Alan Downie – trumpet *Martin Drover – trumpet *Peter Van Hooke –

agogô An agogô (Yoruba: ''agogo'', meaning bell) is a single or a multiple bell now used throughout the world but with origins in traditional Yoruba and Edo music and also in the samba '' baterias'' (percussion ensembles). The agogô may be the oldest ...

*Juan Carnache –

maraca A maraca (), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas (from Guaraní ), also known as tamaracas, were ...

s * John Altman – horn arrangement *Tessa Webb – chorus vocals *Jo Collins – chorus vocals *Pepe Lemer – chorus vocals *Janie Romer – backing vocals *Laura Weymouth – backing vocals ;"3,000,000 Synths" *Chaz Jankel –

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

; Oberheim OB-X *Chris Warwick – Oberheim programming *Peter Van Hooke – Linn LM-1 programming *Philip Bagenal –

vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

;

dubbing Dubbing (re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, often in concert with sound design, in which additional or supplementary recordings are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production so ...

;Production team *Philip Bagenal – producer;

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, r ...

; mixing *Chaz Jankel – producer; mixing *Peter Van Hooke – producer; mixing *Steve Prestage – mixing

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chasanova 1981 albums A&M Records albums Chaz Jankel albums