Let’s Dance (12″ version)
~ Recording by David Bowie
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official | |||||||||
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | SO-17093 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 546002 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 4XO 517093 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 0C 062-400 165, AML 3029 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CP35-3034 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| RCA Music Service (RCA’s Music Club) | R 153730 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 1C 064-400 165 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | EYS-81580 |
| 1.1 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Single |
| EMI America | 12 EA 152 |
| 1.1 | Let’s Dance (long version) | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Single |
| EMI America | 7805-1 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 10C 072-400165 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album | EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | SO 517093 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (‘Manufactured in West Germany’ in booklet) | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (‘Manufactured by Polygram in Hanover, West Germany’ in booklet) | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | MFSL 1-083 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | VJCP-25210 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | CDVIR(WF)293 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 8 40982 2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 8 40982 2, CDVUS 96 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 7243 4 93094 2 5 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (clear tray) | David Bowie | Album | EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 521 8960, 7243 521896 0 1 | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (rights society: BEL/BIEM; S.I.A.E.) | David Bowie | Album | EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 521 8960, 7243 521896 0 1 | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 7243 521896 0 1 |
| 2.16 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | 25 ans de tubes, Volume 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram | 940 171-2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | 218967-PRL2 |
| 1.1 | Let's Dance | 7:39 | David Bowie | Rhythm + Grooves | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | R810-01 314584875-2 |
| 2.2 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | The Best Long Versions… Ever! Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 7243 5 388532 8 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 07243 543319 2 3, 543 3192 |
| 2.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 07243 543319 2 3, 543 3192 |
| 1.8 | Let’s Dance | 7:36 | David Bowie | Classic Cuts Presents: The 12″ Box: 80s, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Music Factory (UK promotional remix service) | BX046 |
| 4.4 | Let’s Dance (12″ version) | 7:40 | David Bowie | Grand 12‐Inches 3 | Ben Liebrand | Album + Compilation |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 – Oct 1, 2008) | 82876 82231 2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| 東芝EMI 株式会社 (record company, do not use as release label – check obi, back or disc for imprint! Ended 2007‐06‐29) | TOCP-70154 |
| 1.14 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Solos, Sessions & Encores | Stevie Ray Vaughan | Album + Compilation |
| Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment) | 82876872312 |
| 3.1 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | For fuld musik 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”) | UNI 531 780 8 |
| 1.12 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | As 100 mais da antena 1, volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI Music Brasil (only enter this as label on releases that have the ‘EMI Music Brasil’ logo) | 50999 964040 2 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI Music Japan Inc. (2007‐06‐30 to 2013‐04‐01 – record company, do NOT USE as release label – check the back cover or CD surface for the imprint) | TOCP-95054 |
| 3.4 | Let’s Dance (12″ version) | 7:36 | David Bowie | Blank & Jones Present So80s (SoEighties) 4 | Blank & Jones | Album + Compilation |
| Soundcolours | SC 0321 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien (1983–1988) | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien (1983–1988) | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien 1983–1988 | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | 0190295693534, DBX4 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album | Parlophone | 0190295511197 | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (2018 remaster) | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (2018 remaster) | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.8 | Let’s Dance | 7:39 | David Bowie | Bardo: Soundtrack from the Netflix Film | Bryce Dessner & Alejandro González Iñárritu | Album + Soundtrack |
| Milan (main imprint of Milan Entertainment, Inc. and Éditions Milan Music) | |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Pathé Marconi EMI (record company, renamed EMI Pathé Marconi in 1986) | 2C 070-400165, PM 263 |
| 1.3 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| Promotion | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Let’s Dance (long version) | 7:38 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Single |
| EMI America | SPRO-9904, SPRO-9904/9905, SPRO-9905 |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.10 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Greatest Songs | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.17 | Let’s Dance | 7:37 | David Bowie | Absolute Greatest Hits | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| [no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases) | |
Relationships
| assistant engineer: | Dave Greenberg (US engineer Sonopod/Boomtown) |
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| engineer and mixer: | Bob Clearmountain |
| producer: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) Nile Rodgers |
| assistant mixer: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) Nile Rodgers |
| baritone saxophone: | Steve Elson (American saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist & duduk player) (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| bass: | Carmine Rojas (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| congas, tambourine and wood block: | Sammy Figueroa (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| drums (drum set): | Omar Hakim (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| guitar: | Nile Rodgers (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) Stevie Ray Vaughan (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| Hammond organ and keyboard: | Rob Sabino (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| tenor saxophone: | Robert Aaron (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) Stan Harrison (American saxophonist) (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| trumpet: | Mac Gollehon (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| background vocals: | Frank Simms (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) George Simms (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) David Spinner (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| lead vocals: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
| horn arranger: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) Nile Rodgers |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) (in 1983) |
| recorded at: | Power Station Studios (Power Station at BerkleeNYC, fka Power Station, Avatar Studios) in Hell's Kitchen, New York, New York, United States (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
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| DJ-mixes: | Techno Contras at Swingin' Tern: Phase X & Scott Higgs 11/17/12 by Phase X (Contra dance band) (on 2012-11-17) DJ Shadow in Los Angeles, 10/31/09 by DJ Shadow (US hip hop producer, DJ & instrumentalist) (order: 12) |
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| sampled by: | Been Around the World (explicit) by Puff Daddy (Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, P. Diddy) feat. Mase (US rapper) & The Notorious B.I.G. Hot Stuff (Let’s dance) by Craig David Let's Dance (radio edit) by Hi_Tack |
| mash-ups: | Dancin’ Papa by The Kleptones (British mashup artist Eric Kleptone) Let’s Dance ’n Stuff (David Bowie vs. deadmau5) by MadMixMustang (mash-up artist) Let's Dance with Me (Party Ben's Get It, They Both Say Dance, Mix) (Hot Hot Heat vs. David Bowie) by Party Ben Let’s Dance, Beautiful People. (Marilyn Manson vs. David Bowie) by oki (mash-up artist) Let's Kill The Star (BRAT Mix) (David Bowie vs. David Bowie) by BRAT (Daniel Barassi) Uptight Killer (Stevie Wonder vs. The Killers vs. The Rolling Stones vs. David Bowie) by Go Home Productions |
| part of: | Indie 88: Top 500 Indie Rock Songs (number: 156) (order: 156) |
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| recording of: | Let’s Dance (from 1983-01-03 until 1983-01-20) |
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Related works
Let’s Dance
| lyricist and composer: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) |
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| publisher: | Essex (publisher) Jones Music (publishers associated with David Bowie) Jones Music America RZO Music Ltd Watanabe Music Publishing CM division |
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