The Belle Stars (album)

"Iko Iko" / "The Reason"
The Belle Stars
Studio album by The Belle Stars
Released	January 1983
Recorded	Trident Studios and Mayfair Studios, London
Genre	Pop, new wave
Length	38:53
Label	Stiff
Producer	Peter Collins, Brian Tench, Pete Wingfield
The Belle Stars chronology
Singles from The Belle Stars
	"Iko Iko" / "The Reason"; Released: May 1982; "The Clapping Song" / "Blame"; Released: July 1982; "Mockingbird" / "Turn Back the Clock"; Released: October 1982; "Sign of the Times" / "Madness"; Released: 30 December 1982; "Indian Summer" / "Sun Sun Sun"; Released: August 1983;

The Belle Stars is the only studio album by the all-female band of the same name released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). The band's eponymous debut album reached number 15 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] The Belle Stars had some success with their single "Iko Iko", a cover of The Dixie Cups' 1965 hit. It charted at number 35 in June 1982 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] Seven years later the song became a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after it was featured in the movie Rain Man, where it peaked at number 14.[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by The Belle Stars unless noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sign of the Times"		2:52
2.	"Ci Ya Ya"		2:40
3.	"The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" (Shirley Ellis cover)	Lincoln Chase	3:11
4.	"Indian Summer"		3:43
5.	"Harlem Shuffle" (Bob & Earl cover)	Earl Nelson, Bob Relf	3:17
6.	"The Reason"		3:57

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Iko Iko" (Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters cover)	Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson, Sharon Jones, Jesse Thomas	3:00
8.	"Baby I'm Yours"		3:36
9.	"Mockingbird" (Inez and Charlie Foxx cover)	Inez Foxx, Charlie Foxx	3:22
10.	"The Snake" (Al Wilson cover)	Oscar Brown, Jr.	3:16
11.	"Burning"		3:21
12.	"Needle in a Haystack" (The Velvelettes cover)	William "Mickey" Stevenson, Norman Whitfield	2:38

Personnel

Band members

Jennie McKeown - lead vocals
Sarah-Jane Owen - lead guitar, wah-wah guitar, vocals
Stella Barker - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Clare Hirst - tenor saxophone, keyboards, vocals
Miranda Joyce - alto saxophone, vocals
Lesley Shone - bass, vocals
Judy Parsons - drums, percussion, vocals

Additional musicians

Martin Ditcham, Graham Broad - percussion

Production

Peter Collins - producer on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11
Phil Chapman, Pete Hammond, Julian Mendelsohn, Phil Harding - engineers on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11
Brian Tench - producer and engineer on tracks 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
Pete Wingfield - producer on track 6
Alvin Clark - engineer on track 6

References

"Belle Stars - The Belle Stars". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19 ed.). Guinness World Record. p. 53. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
Withburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (6 ed.). New York City: Watson-Guptill. p. 57. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6.

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[1] "Belle Stars - The Belle Stars". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2015-06-11.

[guinness-2] Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19 ed.). Guinness World Record. p. 53. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

[3] Withburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (6 ed.). New York City: Watson-Guptill. p. 57. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6.