Doot-Doot Explained

Doot-Doot
Type:	studio
Artist:	Freur
Cover:	Freur - Doot-Doot.jpg
Released:	1983
Genre:	New wave synth-pop
Length:	39:41
Label:	CBS
Producer:	Freur John Hudson
Next Title:	Get Us out of Here
Next Year:	1986

Doot-Doot is the debut studio album by the Welsh new wave and synth-pop band Freur, released in 1983 by CBS Records.^[1] The cassette version of the album included four extra tracks. The lead single, "Doot-Doot", peaked at No. 59 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 17 in New Zealand. The song "Doot-Doot" has appeared in several films, including Let Me In (2010) and Vanilla Sky (2001).

CD release

The album was unavailable on CD until it was reissued by Oglio Records in 1993 in the United States. The album has since been reissued twice in the United Kingdom, in 2000 by Columbia Records and subsequently in 2009 by Cherry Red Records as Get Us out of Here/Doot-Doot – which includes both Freur albums on one CD.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Karl Hyde, Rick Smith and Alfie Thomas.

2009 – Cherry Red Records CD: CDM RED 419^*

• Tracks 1–10 taken from the album Get Us out of Here (1986).

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Doot-Doot liner notes.^[2]

Additional musicians

• Andy Sheppard – soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone on "Runaway"
• Pino Palladino – fretless bass and Chapman Stick on "Theme from the Film of the Same Name"

Production and artwork

• Freur and John Hudson – producer
• Freur and Alex Burak – producer "Doot-Doot"
• Freur – producer "Hold Me Mother"
• John Hudson – engineer
• Pat Stapley and John Hudson – engineer "Runaway"
• John Hudson and John Etchells – engineer "Tender Surrender" and "Steam Machine"
• Simon Smart and John Hudson – engineer "Matters of the Heart"
• John Hudson and Rob Parr – engineer "Hold Me Mother"
• Pete Suthers – electronic research development
• Recorded at Point Studios, Ridge Farm, Jam, Abbey Road and Mayfair
• Mixed at Mayfair
• Brian Griffin – front cover/inner sleeve photographs
• Simon Fowler – group photograph

Notes and References

1. Web site: Freur – Get Us Out Of Here / Doot-Doot . 1 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091201013856/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/freur.php. . Cherry Red Records.
2. Doot-Doot. Freur. 1983. Columbia Records. CD booklet.