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Shock Your Mama: Cherry Pop Reissues, Expands Debbie Gibson's "Body Mind Soul"

December 21, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Debbie Gibson Body Mind Soul

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Debbie Gibson began 1992 by stepping into the role of Eponine in Broadway's Les Miserables, inaugurating a stage career that's since encompassed three more Broadway shows and many more regionally and abroad.  While appearing nightly at the Imperial, the singer-songwriter was still juggling the demands of a pop career.  In June, three months after wrapping up her stint in Les Mis, Gibson was back in the studio.  Her fourth and final album for Atlantic Records, Body Mind Soul was released in January 1993.  It's recently returned from Cherry Red's Cherry Pop imprint in a 2-CD deluxe expanded edition adding more than disc's worth of bonus tracks.

Debbie's third Atlantic album, Anything Is Possible, emphasized her versatility.  Anchored by four songs co-written with Motown legend Lamont Dozier, it helped her reject the "teen pop" label and grow as a mature artist.  Body Mind Soul would continue her development as both a singer and a songwriter, and once again team her with collaborators from the world of R&B.  The team of Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken of dance-pop group Rythm [sic] Syndicate joined Debbie to co-write and co-produce six of the original album's eleven tracks.  They had some experience with former teen idols, having penned strong material for Donny Osmond on his self-titled 1988 Capitol album and its 1990 follow-up Eyes Don't Lie, including the hit "Soldier of Love."  Sturken and Rogers brought their fizzy, upbeat sensibility to tracks such as the opening "Love or Money" and the funky, hip-hop-infused "Shock Your Mama."  They also delivered a smooth R&B midtempo groove on the appealing "Losin' Myself."

Three of Debbie's own compositions were produced by Elliott Wolff (Johnny Gill, Paula Abdul, Taylor Dayne).  She assertively confronted the issue of sexual violence on "When I Say No" ("When I say no, that's what I mean/Not maybe so or what's in between") and gently urged commitment and monogamy on "Kisses 4 One" while expressing empathy for those affected in a "world where love is deadly."  The frothy "Little Birdie" echoed her earliest work.

Some venerable talents came on board, too.  Debbie once recalled that the first album she ever purchased was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, produced by Phil Ramone.  On Body Mind Soul, Ramone helmed Gibson's plea for unity and equality, "Tear Down These Walls," with his trademark taste and sophistication.  Gibson also teamed with composer Narada Michael Walden and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager to write "Goodbye," an attractively bittersweet piano ballad which she, Sturken, and Rogers produced.

"Losin' Myself" was chosen as the first single in the U.S.; it returned the artist to the Billboard Hot 100 but stalled at No. 86 even after a number of remixes and an attention-grabbing music video in which Debbie portrayed a stripper.  In the U.K., the label went with the tongue-in-cheek "Shock Your Mama" but it, too, ended up in the lower reaches of the U.K. Singles Chart (No. 74).  Despite its strong and varied material, Body Mind Soul peaked at No. 109 on the Billboard 200.  It fared best in Japan, where it reached an impressive No. 13.

Cherry Pop's reissue adds four bonus tracks to the first disc including the Japan-only bonus track "Eyes of the Child," the B-side "Love or Lust," the London Apprentice Edit of "Shock Your Mama," and the Radio Mix of "Losin' Myself."  The second disc offers a selection of the many dance remixes released contemporaneously with the album including eight versions (!) of "Losin' Myself," two of "Free Me," and one, the Percapella Mix, of "Kisses 4 One."

Audio has been remastered for this release by Simon Murphy.  The two CDs are housed in a six-panel digipak alongside a 16-page booklet with photos, credits, an essay by Anthony Kay, an album discography, and a new introduction by Debbie Gibson.

Since leaving Atlantic, Debbie Gibson has continued to record in a variety of settings.  She concentrated on original songs on Think with Your Heart (1995), Deborah (1997), and The Body Remembers (2021), and engaged with a number of new collaborators on M.Y.O.B. (2001).  She brought her signature style to covers of classic showtunes, Japanese pop songs, and Christmas tunes on Colored Lights: The Broadway Album (2003), Ms. Vocalist (2010), and Winterlicious (2022), respectively.  All the while, Gibson has continued to perform live in concert as well as in television and on the legit stage. Body Mind Soul closed one chapter of her diverse career.  Now, it closes out Cherry Red's reissue program for Debbie's Atlantic albums.  It's available now at the links below.

Debbie Gibson, Body Mind Soul: Expanded Edition (Atlantic LP 7567-82451-2, 1993 - reissued Cherry Pop QCRPOPD258, 2022) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1

  1. Love or Money
  2. Do You Have It In Your Heart?
  3. Free Me
  4. Shock Your Mama
  5. Losin' Myself
  6. How Can This Be?
  7. When I Say No
  8. Little Birdie
  9. Kisses 4 One
  10. Tear Down These Walls
  11. Goodbye

Bonus Tracks

  1. Love or Lust (Atlantic maxi-single 7567-85779-2, 1992)
  2. Eyes of the Child (from Atlantic (Japan) CD AMCY-505, 1993)
  3. Shock Your Mama (The London Apprentice Edit) (Atlantic maxi-single 7567-85779-2, 1992)
  4. Losin' Myself (Radio Mix) (Atlantic promo single PRCD 4917-2, 1992)

CD 2

  1. Losin' Myself (12" Masters at Work) (Atlantic 12-inch single 0-85785, 1992)
  2. Losin' Myself (Masters at Work Dub) (Atlantic 12-inch single 0-85785, 1992)
  3. Free Me (Extended Mix) (Atlantic promo 12-inch single DMD 2001, 1992)
  4. Losin' Myself (G-Man/Marz "Hot" Mix) (Atlantic 12-inch single 0-85785, 1992)
  5. Losin' Myself (G-Man/Marz Alternate "Hot" Mix) (Atlantic promo single PRCD 4917-2, 1992)
  6. Kisses 4 One (Percapella) (Atlantic single 4-87363, 1992)
  7. Losin' Myself (T-Ray's Hip-Hop) (Atlantic 12-inch single 0-85785, 1992)
  8. Losin' Myself (T-Ray's Acoustic Mix) (Atlantic 12-inch single 0-85785, 1992)
  9. Free Me (Smoove Free Club Mix) (Atlantic promo 12-inch single DMD 2001, 1992)
  10. Losin' Myself (Masters at Work "Hot" Mix) (Atlantic promo single PRCD 4917-2, 1992)
  11. Losin' Myself (Masters at Work 12" Edit) (Atlantic promo single PRCD 4917-2, 1992)

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. David says

    December 21, 2022 at 11:18 am

    Shock Your Mama: Cherry Pop Reissues, Expands Debbie Gibson's "Body Mind Soul" – Cherry POP???

    Reply
    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      December 21, 2022 at 11:33 am

      Umm…yes? Cherry Pop is an imprint of Cherry Red; all of the Debbie reissues have been released on Cherry Pop. 🙂

      Reply
      • David says

        December 21, 2022 at 12:20 pm

        Sorry, my fault: "It's recently returned from Cherry Red's Cherry Pop imprint in a 2-CD deluxe expanded edition adding more than disc's worth of bonus tracks."

        Reply
  2. Larry Davis says

    December 23, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    I have not bought any of the 4 Cherry Pop reissues because I have the signed big "We Could Be Together" boxset (on Edsel/Demon), and I'm not big on duplication...it seems that if there is anything missing on the big box that was uncovered & placed on the Cherry Pop reissues, it's maybe a remix or a few, but I'll be fine...I do enjoy the BMS album quite a bit though, more than AIP...

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