"Every Shade of Blue" is a 1995 pop

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...

 / dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 song by English girl group

Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

 Bananarama

Bananarama

Bananarama are an English female pop duo who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Rather than relying on a two part harmony, the duo generally sings in unison, as do their background vocalists. Although there have been line-up changes, the group enjoyed their most popular...

, from their Ultra Violet

Ultra Violet (Bananarama album)

Ultra Violet and I Found Love are two titles given to the seventh studio album released by British girl group, Bananarama, in 1995...

album. Originally released in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 as a double-A-side with "I Found Love

I Found Love (song)

"I Found Love" is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. The instrumental track was composed by Japanese dance producer Tetsuya Komuro and group members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward wrote lyrics and recorded their vocals over it. The result was not a track which Bananarama liked, so...

", the track was gradually released throughout 1995 and 1996 in several different countries – each time on a different independent dance label, as Bananarama did not have a major-label contract at the time. Their home country of the UK did not get a release of this single or the Ultra Violet album.

The sentiments and sound of the song are melancholic and somewhat of a departure from the upbeat nature of the majority of their hits. "Every Shade of Blue" did receive some play in nightclubs, and charted highest in Canada

Canada

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, where it reached number 35. The only other country in which it charted was Australia

Australia

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, where it reached number 94 on the Australian Music Report chart; but it did not enter the top 100 on the 'official' ARIA chart.

The song has been re-recorded and will appear on the b-side of Bananarama's 2010 single Love Don't Live Here

Love Don't Live Here (Bananarama song)

"Love Don't Live Here" is a song written and recorded by British girl group Bananarama. It was released on April 12, 2010 as the second and final single from their tenth studio album Viva.-Song information:...

.

Music video

The music video

Music video

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 features footage of the two girls singing the song on the floor. These shots are interspersed with brief images of three young men who either pose for the camera or play with a soccer ball.

Remixes

German CD single

1. "Every Shade of Blue" (Radio Version) - (4:11)
2. "Every Shade of Blue" (Mix 1 Vox Hi) - (5:36) (aka "Euromix" & "A La Mode Mix")
3. "Every Shade of Blue" (Lenny Bertoldo Radio Mix) - (4:00)

   Remixed by Lenny Bertoldo

4. "Every Shade of Blue" (12" Fab Four Mix for Cleveland City) - (6:25)
5. "Every Shade of Blue" (Armand van Helden
   Armand Van Helden
   Armand Van Helden is a record producer, DJ and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" , which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "U Don't Know Me ", which went to number 1...
   
   's Ruffneck Mix) - (8:02)

   Remixed by Armand van Helden

U.S. 12-inch vinyl

1. "Every Shade of Blue" (X-tended Club Mix) - (6:05)

   Remixed by Lenny Bertoldo

2. "Every Shade of Blue" (Armand van Helden
   Armand Van Helden
   Armand Van Helden is a record producer, DJ and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" , which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "U Don't Know Me ", which went to number 1...
   
   's Ruffneck Mix) - (8:02)

   Remixed by Armand van Helden

3. "Every Shade of Blue" (12" Fab Four Mix for Cleveland City) - (6:25)
4. "Every Shade of Blue" (Mix 1 Vox Hi) - (5:36) (aka "Euromix" & "A La Mode Mix")
5. "Every Shade of Blue" (Album Version)

Promo mixes

1. "Every Shade of Blue" (Radio Version) - (4:11)
2. "Every Shade of Blue" (Lenny Bertoldo Radio Mix) - (4:00)

   Remixed by Lenny Bertoldo

3. "Every Shade of Blue" (Mix 1 Vox Hi) - (5:36) (aka "Euro Mix" & "A La Mode Mix")
4. "Every Shade of Blue" (12" Fab Four Mix for Cleveland City) - (6:25)
5. "Every Shade of Blue" (X-tended Club Mix) - (6:05)

   Remixed by Lenny Bertoldo

6. "Every Shade of Blue" (Armand van Helden
   Armand Van Helden
   Armand Van Helden is a record producer, DJ and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" , which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "U Don't Know Me ", which went to number 1...
   
   's Ruffneck Mix) - (8:02)

   Remixed by Armand van Helden

7. "Every Shade of Blue" (Alternative Mix) - (4:12) (aka "A La Mode Alternative Mix")

Other versions

1. "Every Shade of Blue" (7" Fab Four Mix for Cleveland City)
2. "Every Shade of Blue" (Radio Mix Vox Hi) (aka "Euro Radio" & "A La Mode Radio")
3. "Every Shade of Blue" (Italo Mix) Available only on the 12" and CD Single in Italy
4. "Every Shade of Blue" (2010 mix) Available only on the 12" and CD Single of "Love Don't Live Here
   Love Don't Live Here (Bananarama song)
   "Love Don't Live Here" is a song written and recorded by British girl group Bananarama. It was released on April 12, 2010 as the second and final single from their tenth studio album Viva.-Song information:...
   
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Charts

Chart (1996)	Peak position
Canadian singles chart	35

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