"Best Mix of Our Lives" is the final single from UK band Modern Romance

Modern Romance (band)

Modern Romance were a British pop music band that found popularity in the early 1980s. Formed in 1980 by previous members of an earlier punk rock band, The Leyton Buzzards, the band enjoyed a string of UK chart hits before they broke up in 1985...

. It was released in 1985 as a 7-inch single and 12-inch single

12-inch single

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 by WEA

Warner Music Group

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.

12-inch single

• Best Mix of Our Lives
• Best Years of Our Lives [extended re-mix]

Broken Down
Best Mix of Our Lives 7-inch

• Everybody Salsa
• Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey
• High Life
• Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm
• Best Years of Our Lives

Broken Down
Best Mix of Our Lives 12-inch

• Everybody Salsa
• Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey
• High Life
• Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm
• Best Years of Our Lives
• Salsa Rappsody
• Moose on the Loose

History

Best Mix of Our Lives - and Tarzan Boy

Tarzan Boy

"Tarzan Boy" is the title of a song recorded by Italy-based act Baltimora. It was the group's debut single, released in April 1985, from its first album Living in the Background, on which it features as first track...

 (1985) - were the band's last-ditch attempt to revive their flagging career. Best Mix of Our Lives is a farewell anthology of sorts, a mix of their five biggest hits: Everybody Salsa, Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey, High Life (1983 song), Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

"Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm" is a Top 20 single from UK band Modern Romance. It was released in 1983 as a 7-inch single, 7-inch picture disc, and 12-inch single by WEA...

and Best Years of Our Lives (1982 song). The 12-inch version featured the B-side to Everybody Salsa (Salsa Rappsody) and the B-side to Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey (Moose on the Loose).

Genre

"Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm

"Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm" is a Top 20 single from UK band Modern Romance. It was released in 1983 as a 7-inch single, 7-inch picture disc, and 12-inch single by WEA...

" ia a pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 single with elements of Afro-Cuban

Afro-Cuban

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 and Mambo. "Everybody Salsa" and "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey" are Latin American salsa music

Salsa music

Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...

 tunes. "Best Year of Our Lives

Best Years of Our Lives (song)

"Best Years of Our Lives" is the highest charting single from UK band Modern Romance. It was released in October 1982 as a 7-inch single and 12-inch single by WEA...

" and "High Life

High Life (song)

"High Life" is a Top 10 single from UK band Modern Romance. It was released in 1983 as a 7-inch picture disc and a 12-inch single by WEA. A Japanese and German edition was also released.-12-inch single:*High Life*You Just Can't Kill The Beat...

" are pop music tracks with an element of salsa music and R&B.

Personnel

• Michael J. Mullins
  Michael J. Mullins
  Michael J. Mullins is an English lead vocalist, backing singer, and songwriter best known as the lead singer of Salsa band Modern Romance . Modern Romance achieved eight Top 40 singles and two hit albums...
  
   - vocals on "Best Years of Our Lives", "High Life", "Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm"
• Geoff Deane - vocals on "Everybody Salsa", "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey", "Salsa Rappsody", "Moose on the Loose"
• David Jaymes - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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   and backing vocals
• Robbie Jaymes - synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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• Paul Gendler - guitar
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• John Du Prez
  John Du Prez
  John Du Prez is a musician, conductor, and composer. Du Prez was a member of the 1980s multi-hit Salsa-driven pop band Modern Romance and has since written several Film scores including Oxford Blues and the final Carry On film, Carry On Columbus...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Andy Kyriacou - drums
  Drum kit
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