For You is an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Dutch girl group Luv'

Luv'

Luv is a Dutch pop girl group that scored a string of hit records in Continental Europe as well as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979, Luv' was "Holland's best export act" and thus received the "Conamus Export Prize"...

 released in September 1989 by Dureco/High Fashion records. It was recorded by a formation different from the original line-up (the only original member being Marga Scheide

Marga Scheide

Marga Scheide is a Dutch former model and a singer. She is a member of the girl group Luv'....

).
It includes the moderate hit song Welcome to My party

Welcome to My Party (Luv' song)

"Welcome to My Party" is the fourteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in the autumn of 1989 by Dureco/High Fashion records. This song appears on the EP For You...

 as well as other singles: I Don't Wanna Be Lonely

I Don't Wanna Be Lonely

"I Don't Wanna Be Lonely" is the eighteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in early 1990 by the labels Dureco/High Fashion Music. It appears on the EP For You, featuring a formation different from the original line-up.-Song history:...

, Girl Like Me

Girl Like Me (Japan Edition)

Girl Like Me is the nineteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in early 1990 by the labels Toco/Beaver Records/Alfa International. It appears on the EP For You...

 and Hit-Medley

Hit-Medley (Luv' medley)

"Hit-Medley" is the twentieth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in 1990 by the labels Dureco/High Fashion Music in the Benelux and RCA Records/BMG in Germany. It appears on the EP For You...

. For You marked the group's comeback after its break-up in 1981.

Album history

In early 1989, the Dutch and Flemish media were speculating about a reunion of the original Luv'

Luv'

Luv is a Dutch pop girl group that scored a string of hit records in Continental Europe as well as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979, Luv' was "Holland's best export act" and thus received the "Conamus Export Prize"...

 singers who were popular ten years earlier in a dozen of countries with hits like "You're the Greatest Lover

You're the Greatest Lover

"You're the Greatest Lover" is a single by Dutch girl group Luv'. It was first released in July 1978 by Philips/Phonogram Records. It appears on the 1978 debut album With Luv and on compilations . It is the group's international breakthrough as it was successful in a large part of Continental...

", "Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse (Luv' song)

"Trojan Horse" is the fifth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in the autumn of 1978 by Philips/Phonogram Records. This million seller appears on the German version of the 1978 debut album, With Luv' and was a successful hit record in a large part of Continental Europe, South Africa and New...

" and "Casanova

Casanova (Luv' song)

"Casanova" is the sixth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in the spring of 1979 by Philips Records. This song appears on the formation's second album, Lots Of Luv, and was a Top 10 single in a large part of Continental Europe, maintaining Luv's position as the best Dutch export act of...

". The trio was announced to record new material produced by the British hit machine Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a UK songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. They had great success during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s...

. However, this project never happened. José Hoebee

José Hoebee

José Hoebee is a Dutch pop female singer. She is part of Luv' . In late 1981, she went solo and was successful in her homeland and in the Flanders region of Belgium between 1982 and 1985...

 refused to be part of Luv' because of family duties. Soon after, Patty Brard

Patty Brard

Patty Brard is a famous Indo entertainer. She is a TV personality and a singer notable as a member of the girl group Luv'...

 didn't want to belong to the trio.

Marga Scheide

Marga Scheide

Marga Scheide is a Dutch former model and a singer. She is a member of the girl group Luv'....

 was the only one to carry on. That's why she formed a new version of the girl group by recruiting two vocalists: Diana van Berlo

Diana van Berlo

Diana van Berlo is a Dutch pop female singer. She was a member of the girl group Luv' from 1989 to 1992. She scored with the female formation a Dutch and Flemish Top 30 hit with the single Welcome to my party as well as another minor hit song He's My Guy...

 and Michelle Gold. Hans van Hemert

Hans van Hemert

Hans van Hemert is a Dutch ASCAP award winning record producer and songwriter. Mouth & MacNeal and Luv' are among the pop acts he produced...

 and Piet Souer

Piet Souer

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Souer is a Dutch music producer, songwriter and arranger. His collaboration with famous pop acts made him gain twenty two gold and platinum records, one Conamus Export Prize and one Outstanding Song Award thanks to his...

, who conceived the original trio in 1977, weren't involved in the new Luv'. As they held the copyright on all the aspects of the group, they gave Marga official permission to use the name of Luv' and its heart-shaped logo.

With the help from Marga's partner Jacques Zwart (a.k.a E. Mergency), a new musical direction was chosen. English record producer Nigel Wright was hired to supervise new recordings. Wright was an experimented artist who had produced hit records for Shakatak

Shakatak

Shakatak are an English jazz-funk band, founded in 1980.-Career:Shakatak scored a number of chart entries, including two Top Ten hits in the UK Singles Chart, "Night Birds" and "Down on the Street" plus a further 12 entries in the Guinness book of British Hit Singles...

, Imagination

Imagination (band)

Imagination were a three piece British soul and funk band, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had chart hits in 28 countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs and more than a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983....

 and Mirage. Under his guidance, Luv' recorded an EP (entitled For You) that was inspired by the Dance pop sound of PWL

PWL

Pete Waterman Entertainment is the production company one-time pop and dance record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. The label, originally PWL, is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman....

 which enjoyed success in Western countries in the late 1980s with acts like Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

, Mel & Kim, 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...

 and Rick Astley

Rick Astley

Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...

. The recording sessions took place at the Dureco Studio in Weesp

Weesp

Weesp is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It has a population of 17,533 .Weesp lies next to the rivers de Vecht and Smal Weesp and also next to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. It is in an area called the "Vechtstreek"...

. The songs were engineered in London

London

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.

The first single taken from For You was "Welcome To My Party

Welcome to My Party (Luv' song)

"Welcome to My Party" is the fourteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in the autumn of 1989 by Dureco/High Fashion records. This song appears on the EP For You...

" that peaked at #22 on the Dutch Top 40

Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...

 and #28 on the Flemish BRT Top 30. It was far from the excellent performances of the Luv' records released during their heyday between 1978

1978 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1978.-January–April:*January 14 – The Sex Pistols play their final show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom....

 and 1980

1980 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980.-January–March:*January 1**Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Elizabeth II.**The Zorros audition drummer Greg Pedley....

. The other singles off the EP failed to break into the hit lists. Although chart success was a distant memory, the ladies toured the clubs circuit and often performed on TV.

Track listing

Track	Title	Songwriter(s)	Production credits	Time
1.	"Welcome To My Party"	R.Sommer, M. Schimscheimer, J. van Katwijk	Nigel Wright and John Smits	3:00
2.	"Girl Like Me"	Nigel Stock	Nigel Wright Arranged by Nigel Stock	4:12
3.	"I Don't Wanna Be Lonely"	Nigel Stock	Nigel Wright Arranged by Nigel Stock	4:07
4.	"Naughty"	M. Farina, G. Crivillente	Nigel Wright and John Smits	3:58
5.	"No Cure No Pay"	E. Mergency	Nigel Wright and John Smits	3:39
6.	"Medley" (12" Version)	Janschen & Janschens	Margret Arranged by E. Mergency	7:14

Singles

#	Title	Date
1.	"Welcome To My Party Welcome to My Party (Luv' song) "Welcome to My Party" is the fourteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in the autumn of 1989 by Dureco/High Fashion records. This song appears on the EP For You... "	1989
2.	"I Don't Wanna Be Lonely I Don't Wanna Be Lonely "I Don't Wanna Be Lonely" is the eighteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in early 1990 by the labels Dureco/High Fashion Music. It appears on the EP For You, featuring a formation different from the original line-up.-Song history:... "	1990
3.	"Girl Like Me Girl Like Me (Japan Edition) Girl Like Me is the nineteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in early 1990 by the labels Toco/Beaver Records/Alfa International. It appears on the EP For You... "	1990
4.	"Medley Hit-Medley (Luv' medley) "Hit-Medley" is the twentieth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in 1990 by the labels Dureco/High Fashion Music in the Benelux and RCA Records/BMG in Germany. It appears on the EP For You... "	1990

Personnel

Marga Scheide	vocals
Michelle Gold	vocals
Diana van Berlo	vocals
Nigel Wright, Nigel Stock, John Smits, E. Mergency	synthesizers, keyboards Keyboard instrument A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... , sequencing Sequencing In genetics and biochemistry, sequencing means to determine the primary structure of an unbranched biopolymer... , programming

Production

Producers	Nigel Wright, John Smits, Margret, E. Mergency
Recording	Dureco Studio in Weesp Weesp Weesp is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It has a population of 17,533 .Weesp lies next to the rivers de Vecht and Smal Weesp and also next to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. It is in an area called the "Vechtstreek"...
Engineer	Robin Sellars in London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Design	Bart Falkmann
Photography	Govert de Roos