Trust Me (I'm Talking song) explained

Trust Me
Cover:Trust_Me_by_I'm_Talking.jpg
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Type:single
Artist:I'm Talking
A-Side:Trust Me
B-Side:Take It to the Bridge
Released:[1]
Recorded:October 1984
Studio:AAV, Melbourne
Genre:Synth-pop
Label:Regular
Producer:I'm Talking, Ross Cockle
Next Title:Lead the Way
Next Year:1985

"Trust Me" is the debut single written and recorded by the Australian band I'm Talking, released in November 1984.[1] The line-up was Zan Abeyratne on backing vocals, Kate Ceberano on lead vocals, Stephen Charlesworth on keyboards, Ian Cox on saxophone, Robert Goodge on lead guitar, Barbara Hogarth on bass guitar and Cameron Newman on drums. It peaked at number 10 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. In May 1985 the song won Best Debut Single at the Countdown Awards of 1984.

Background

"Trust Me" was recorded by Australian synth-pop band I'm Talking with the line-up of Zan Abeyratne on backing vocals, Kate Ceberano on lead vocals, Stephen Charlesworth on keyboards, Ian Cox on saxophone, Robert Goodge on lead guitar, Barbara Hogarth on bass guitar and Cameron Newman on drums.[2] [3] It was issued in November 1984 as a non-album single with Ross Cockle (Glenn Shorrock, Real Life) co-producing for Regular Records – their first recording for that label.[2] [4] It was co-written by band mates Ceberano, Charlesworth, Cox, Goodge, Hogarth and Newman.[5] They also co-wrote its B-side "Take It to the Bridge".[5]

Goodge later recalled how they had scrapped earlier efforts to record "Trust Me" when working with label co-owner Cameron Allan, "we just didn't see eye to eye. We didn't even reach the mix stage."[6] They found Cockle was "more egalitarian".[6] Goodge acknowledges influences from "Street Dance" by Break Machine and "Let the Music Play" by Shannon, while their own track was "a mix of Freestyle and the lighter Beat Street production sound".[6] For the 12" mix the group "set it out for the engineer in extended form and got them to add some delays etc. to the material."[6]

Reception

Paul Gardiner of The Canberra Times described "Trust Me" as, "a piece of pulsating smokey funk with soul vocals that, if a deal short of perfection, is nevertheless extremely good and certainly better than anything else in that bag produced in Australia."[7]

Track listing

7" single (RRSP 744)
12" single (RRT 615)

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kent Music Report No 543 – 26 November 1984 > Singles: New Releases. Imgur.com (original document published by Kent Music Report). 28 November 2017.
  2. Book: McFarlane, Ian . Ian McFarlane . Jenkins, Jeff (Foreword) . . Encyclopedia entry for 'I'm Talking' . 2017 . . Third Stone Press . 2nd . 237 . 978-0-9953856-0-3 .
  3. Web site: I'm Talking . . Magnus . Holmgren . 20 October 2022 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040224173830/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/i/imtalking.html . 24 February 2004 . dmy-all .
  4. News: I'm Talking: an Unashamed Disco Group . John . Jesser . The Canberra Times . 59 . 18,189 . 18 July 1985 . 27 August 2022 . 14 . National Library of Australia . https://web.archive.org/web/20220828074017/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127208922 . 28 August 2022 . live .
  5. Web site: APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association, Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) . Song Catalogue Search Results for 'Trust Me' at APRA search engine . 20 October 2022 . Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search and filter' and then input a title.
  6. Web site: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20190316034453/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/154563/20190316-0126/mushroompromotions.com/bios/track-track-im-talking-bear-witness-bloodlines-friday-23-march-2018/index.html . Track by Track – I'm Talking – Bear Witness . Robert . Goodge . Bloodlines . 23 March 2018 . 16 March 2019 . 20 October 2022 .
  7. News: Arts & Showbiz: The Next Big Thing: 12 Rock Groups That Will Survive 5 Years . Paul . Gardiner . Jane . Gardiner . Toby . Creswell . The Canberra Times. Good Weekend . 60 . 18,261 . 29 September 1985 . 30 August 2022 . 68 . National Library of Australia. Note: links to rest of article – p. 69, p. 70, p. 72. Content on I'm Talking spans pp. 69–70.
  8. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. St Ives. 1993. 145. 0-646-11917-6.

  9. Web site: Kent Music Report No 599 – 30 December 1985 > National Top 100 Singles for 1985. Kent Music Report. Imgur. 23 January 2023.

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