Midnight Blue by viking cowboy

Midnight Blue“ is the title of a 1982-3 international hit by Louise Tucker which served as the title cut for Tucker’s debut album Midnight Blue. The single also features Charlie Skarbek on vocals. In the spring of 1982 opera singer Louise Tucker met record producer Tim Smit when she accompanied his sister-in-law who’d come to babysit for him: this meeting led to Tucker recording the demo for the track “Midnight Blue“ - which utilized the melody of the second movement of “Sonata Pathétique“ by Beethoven - with Smit and his friend Charlie Skarbek producing.[1] Smit and Skarbek successfully shopped the track to the Dutch division of Ariola Records and the finished track was cut at Chestnut Studios in Farnham.[2] The Dutch Ariola cassette release () notes Chestnut recording studios as being in Frensham (south of Farnham), with Abbey Road Studios, London also involved. Recording period given as June to September 1982. Genre Synthpop, classical crossov