Stainsby Girls
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| "Stainsby Girls" | ||||
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| Single by Chris Rea | ||||
| from the album Shamrock Diaries | ||||
| B-side | "And When She Smiles" | |||
| Released | 8 March 1985 | |||
| Length | 3:50 | |||
| Label | Magnet | |||
| Songwriter | Chris Rea | |||
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| "Stainsby Girls (Official Music Video)" on YouTube | ||||
"Stainsby Girls" is a song by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released on 8 March 1985[1] as the lead single from his seventh studio album, Shamrock Diaries.[2] It was written by Rea, and produced by Rea and Dave Richards.[3] "Stainsby Girls" reached No. 26 in the UK and remained in the charts for twelve weeks.[4]
"Stainsby Girls" was written by Rea as a tribute for his wife Joan, a former student of the Stainsby Secondary Modern School.[2] The single's B-side, "And When She Smiles", is listed on the back sleeve as having been "recorded on eight track on a yacht in Ibiza harbour".[3] Rea later re-recorded "Stainsby Girls" for his 1988 album New Light Through Old Windows.[5]
In a retrospective review of Shamrock Diaries, Sharon Mawer of AllMusic described the song as "easily the most like Bruce Springsteen that Rea had ever sounded".[2] Colin Larkin, in his book The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, noted the song was a "slice of nostalgia for the northern England of Rea's adolescence".[6]
Track listing
- 7" single
- "Stainsby Girls" – 3:50
- "And When She Smiles" – 3:12
- 12" single (German release)
- "Stainsby Girls (Sax-Mix)" – 4:20
- "September Blue" – 3:54
