Foreigner - Urgent (Stereo!) (full length album cut)

To enable STEREO click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKiXcCggneo&fmt=18 You're not shy, you get around You wanna fly, don't want your feet on the ground You stay up, you won't come down You wanna live, you wanna move to the sound Got fire in your veins Burnin' hot but you don't feel the pain Your desire is insane You can't stop until you do it again But sometimes I wonder as I look in your eyes Maybe you're thinking of some other guy But I know, yes I know, how to treat you right That's why you call me in the middle of the night You say it's urgent So urgent, so oh oh urgent Just wait and see How urgent my love can be It's urgent You play tricks on my mind You're everywhere but you're so hard to find You're not warm or sentimental You're so extreme, you can be so temperamental But I'm not looking for a love that will last I know what I need and I need it fast Yeah, there's one thing in common that we both share That's a need for for each other anytime, anywhere It gets so urgent So urgent You know its urgent I wanna tell you it's the same for me So oh oh urgent Just you wait and see How urgent our love can be It's urgent You say it's urgent Make it fast, make it urgent Do it quick, do it urgent Gotta rush, make it urgent Want it quick Urgent, urgent, emergency Urgent, urgent, emergency Urgent, urgent, emergency Urgent, urgent, emergency So urgent, emergency Emergency ... emergency ... emergency ... _________________________ "Urgent" is a 1981 song recorded by the American Rock band Foreigner, and the first single from their album 4. Foreigner went into the studio with producer "Mutt" Lange, best known at the time as producer of heavy metal band AC/DC. Foreigner's sound wasn't quite as heavy, and the band worked with then-unknown Thomas Dolby to program and play synthesizer. Dolby's work can be heard on "Urgent", along with a saxophone solo by Motown great Junior Walker. The song hit the U.S. pop charts on the Fourth of July, 1981, and reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, holding that spot for the entire month of September. "Urgent" hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, a position it held for four weeks. The song was released in an edited version on 7" vinyl, and in its full album version on a DJ-only 12" Promo single, which was backed with live versions of two earlier hits. "Urgent" was the most successful single from the 4 album at rock radio, though it was outsold by the album's next single, "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which reached #2 on the Hot 100 in November 1981 and remained at that spot through the end of the following January, for a total of ten weeks, being certified Gold. 4 went Gold and Platinum during the chart run of the "Urgent" single. The album has since been certified multi-platinum by the RIAA, for selling over 6 million copies in the U.S. alone. The song was Foreigner's second-best selling single (after "I Want to Know What Love Is") in both Canada and Sweden, reaching #1 in Canada in September 1981 and #20 in Sweden in March 1982. In Australia, "Urgent" peaked at #24 in August 1981. In the UK, the song reached only #54 upon its first release in 1981. In 1982, after "Waiting for a Girl Like You" went Top Ten there, "Urgent" was re-released, this time reaching only slightly higher, peaking at #45. Foreigner performs a live version of the song on the 1993 album Classic Hits Live. A live concert version by the 2005 incarnation of the band, featuring Kelly Hansen on vocals, can be heard on the release Extended Versions. In 2008, DJ Lobsterdust remixed a Mash-up version, featuring the 1981 Lou Gramm vocals along with Mick Jones' signature guitar hook and Walker's sax solo over the signature keyboard hook of the Yazoo club hit "Situation" and some of that band's chorus vocals, renaming the product "Urgent Situation". Electro-pop/R&B singer Shannon recorded a version of the Foreigner hit for her 1985 album Do You Wanna Get Away. Foreigner's label, Atlantic Records, distributed Mirage, the label for the Shannon release. The song was the album's fourth single, peaking at #68 for two weeks on Billboard's R&B Singles chart in November and December 1985. A 12" remix of the mid-tempo track was not the major dance hit of her previous releases.

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