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Le 3 avril 1982, le 45t MAKE A MOVE ON ME atteint le TOP 5 du BILLBOARD HOT100 ! ONJ grimpe ainsi d'une place ....

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Farrar and Snow led each other to new heights with "Make a Move On Me", arguably the duo's crowning achievement as collaborators. "Tom and I both loved chord structures," says Farrar. "Sometimes he would play the chord sequence and I would play a melody on the top or vice versa. With 'Make a Move on Me', I remember I couldn't come up with anything in the verse. Tom came up with that synth part that was great." The high-pitched melody that Snow conceived for the intro primed listeners for three minutes of pop bliss.

"'Make a Move on Me' has three distinct tonal centers," says Snow. "It starts off in F and then goes to A-minor and then John figured a way to get it to E-flat in the chorus. He came up with that brilliant [sings] 'Won't you spare me all the charms and take me in your arms / I can't wait'. It was amazing. There are very few pop songs that have that kind of harmonic structure to it. I thought we did a hell of a good job on that one.

"John had Carlos Vega come in to do the drum loop and I believe he came back a second time to fill out the track. I came up with the bass line. John loved it and had me play it. He said, 'Let's make a loop!' I'd be sitting there in David's studio, sweating, trying to get it absolutely perfect, doing manually what Pro Tools does with a button now. We didn't have sequencers at that point. John would say, 'Do it again Tom. It's almost there.' That went on for a couple of hours until it was absolutely spot-on, in the pocket. I think we made a four-bar loop. David cut the loop and then edited it into other parts of the tune."

Sonically, "Make a Move on Me" is a shining paragon of synthesized sounds. The Prophet-5 synthesizer, in particular, polished the song with a warm, high-tech gloss. "When the Prophet-5 came out, it had this milky, sweet sound," Holman notes. "It was one of the best-sounding things. The Oberheim was kind of cool but the Prophet fit so well into the recordings and it was just a fabulous instrument. It looked really sexy." Newton-John only amplified the sexiness of "Make a Move on Me" as her voice conveyed everything from simmering desire to unmitigated euphoria.

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ONJ revisitée par Roger Pilvuen ...


Le 3 avril 1982, également, l'album PHYSICAL regrimpe d'une petite place ! l'album trust donc la 6ième position du BILLBOARD 200 .. c'est toujours le "carton plein" pour ONJ !!

En Angleterre le succès est moindre ... même s'il regagne 6 places, l'album n'est que 45ième .. dans le classement des meilleures ventes d'albums.

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UK RETRO CHARTS

10 ans plus tôt, sa reprise de GEORGE HARRISON WHAT IS LIFE grimpe de 4 places dans le classement des meilleures ventes de 45t au Royaume Uni !
ONJ est désormais 16ième pour la semaine du 2 au 8 avril 1972 !