Terry Britten
Terence Ernest "Terry" Britten (born July 1947) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer, who has written songs for Tina Turner, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Status Quo and Michael Jackson amongst many others. Britten (along with co-writer Graham Lyle) won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1985 for "What's Love Got to Do with It".
Career
Britten is a native of Manchester, but began writing for the Adelaide, Australia band The Twilights, a popular 1960s band for which he played lead guitar. At times he co-wrote with Glenn Shorrock and Peter Brideoake. He also recorded a single under his own name, "2000 Weeks" / "Bargain Day" (1969).
Britten was a band member of Quartet with Kevin Peek, Alan Tarney and Trevor Spencer who recorded one album with Decca Records in the UK, which remains unreleased. One single was issued in 1969 on Decca in the UK and Australia and London in the US: "Now" / "Will My Lady Come" (Decca UK-F12974, Aust Y-8977, US London LON 1031) and a second single in the UK only in 1970 "Joseph" / "Mama Where Did You Fail" (Decca F13072).
Painter Man
Painter Man is a song by the music group, The Creation. The song was the group's second, and most successful, single.
"Painter Man" was later covered by the 1970s pop group Boney M., and reached number 10 in the UK single charts in 1979. The song was included on their 1978 album Nightflight to Venus and had been released in Continental Europe as the double A-side "Rasputin"/"Painter Man" in 1978. In the UK the song was, however, given A-side status and also released as a 12" single in clear red and clear yellow vinyl.
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1960
Hit Collection (Boney M. 1996)
Hit Collection is a 3 CD box set of recordings by Boney M. issued by BMG-Ariola in 1996.
The forty-two track release contains tracks from the seven Boney M. studio albums as well as edited or remixed versions of the band's hits from compilations The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits, Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs, Gold - 20 Super Hits, The Greatest Hits and More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II.
The three discs of the box set have also been available separately as Happy Songs, Daddy Cool and Painter Man.
Track listing
Disc one - Happy Songs
- Edited 7" version
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
Podcasts:
Terry Britten
ALBUMS
- Sixties Downunder, Volume 3 released: 1999
Sixties Downunder, Volume 3
Released 1999- She's So Fine
- Someone
- Stupidity
- Little Boy Sad
- That's What I Want
- Mary Lou
- Judy Green
- Wedding Ring
- The Breaking Point
- Ain't It Strange
- Gypsy Woman
- I'm Gonna Try
- Black
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- If I Had a Ticket
- Hey Baby
- What's Wrong With the Way I Live
- Painter Man
- Krome Plated Yabby
- Magic Eyes
- Sad
- Listen
- Hide & Seek
- 2,000 Weeks
- Dear Prudence
- 5.10 Man
- Mr. Guy Fawkes
- The Real Thing
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by Boney M
Painter Man
by: Boney MWent to college, studied arts
To be an artist make a start
Studied hard, gettin' my degree
But no one seemed to notice me
Painter man, painter man
Who wanna be a painter man
Painter man, painter man
Who wanna be a painter man
Tried cartoons and comic books
Dirty postcards could have done
Here was where the money laid
Classic art has had it's day
Painter man, painter man
Who wanna be a painter man
Painter man, painter man
Who wanna be a painter man
Did adverts for T.V.
Household shops and brands of tea
Labels all around the cans
Who wanna be a painter man
Painter man, painter man
Who wanna be a painter man
Painter man, painter man
Who wanna be a painter man
La...la...la...la...la...la...
La...la...la...la...la...la...la...
Painter man, painter man