Up to You (EP) explained

Up to You
Type:	ep
Artist:	Blue Peter
Cover:	Up-to-you-new-thumb.jpg
Released:	1982
Genre:	New wave
Label:	Ready Records ER025^[1]
Producer:	Kevin Doyle, Chris Wardman
Prev Title:	Radio Silence
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Falling
Next Year:	1983

Up to You was an EP by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1982, it included the single "Chinese Graffiti",^[2] which garnered the band their biggest radio exposure to date, winning a CASBY Award (then known as the "U-Knows") for Single of the Year.^[3] In the past, "Chinese Graffiti" had been released as a single by the band on their own short-lived independent record label, AWOL Records, in 1981.^[4] The EP ranked 29th on CFNY's Top 82 Albums of 1982,^[5] and its success led to the following year's album, Falling being produced by Steve Nye.^[6]

Personnel

Blue Peter:^[7]

• Mike Bambrick - drums
• Paul Humphrey - vocals
• Ric Joudrey - bass
• Chris Wardman - guitars

Additional personnel:

• Malcolm Burn - keyboards on "Chinese Graffiti"
• Sherry Kean (credited as "Sherry Huffman") - backing vocals on "Chinese Graffiti"^[8]
• Glenn Gould, whose recordings had been produced by Blue Peter producer Kevin Doyle,^[9] was credited as having sourced the orchestral sample used on "Guilty Secret".^{[10] [11]}

Track listing

All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman:
Side A
1. "Up to You" - 2:57
2. "Chinese Graffiti" - 3:39
3. "Guilty Secret" - 3:48
Side B
4. "Around You" - 3:49
5. "The World Stops Here" - 3:26
6. "Up to U" (instrumental) - 3:22

Re-issue

In 2007, Up to You was re-issued by Universal Music Canada on compact disc, combined with Version, a 1983 EP of remixes from Falling, and other previously unreleased bonus tracks and demos, as Burning Bridges.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Ready Records Catalogue. Catalogue. Ready Records. 31 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20100827133219/http://www.readyrecords.ca/cat.html. 27 August 2010. dead.
2. Web site: Blue Peter. The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia. CANOE Jam!. 31 January 2011. https://archive.today/20121208132033/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Blue_Peter.html. 8 December 2012. usurped.
3. Web site: History. Casbys. 102.1 The Edge. 31 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110317035636/http://www.edge.ca/ConcertsandEvents/Casbys/History.aspx. 17 March 2011. dead.
4. Web site: Up To You. Discography. Blue Peter. 31 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110525213617/http://bluepeterband.com/up_to_you. 25 May 2011. dead.
5. Web site: Top 82 Albums of 1982. Year End Charts. 102.1 The Edge. 31 January 2011.
6. Web site: Carruthers. Sean. Falling review. Blue Peter. AllMusic. 31 January 2011.
7. Web site: liner notes. Blue Peter — Up To You. Discogs. 31 January 2011.
8. Web site: Barclay. Michael. Blue Peter @ Lee's Palace, May 29. Concert Review. EYE Weekly. 31 January 2011. 2 June 2008.
9. Web site: Discography. Kevin Doyle music. 31 January 2011.
10. Web site: Burning Bridges. Discography. Blue Peter. 31 January 2011.
11. Web site: Burning Bridges. Blue Peter Discography. AllMusic. 31 January 2011.