Working Week were a British jazz-dance band active in the 1980s and 1990s. Working Week was formed in 1983 by guitarist Simon Booth and saxophonist Larry Stabbins from the band Weekend, which ended when singer Alison Statton left to become a schoolteacher. The duo released their debut single "Venceremos (We Will Win)" during the following year. The song was a tribute to Chilean protest singer Víctor Jara, with vocals by Robert Wyatt and Tracey Thorn (the latter from the band Everything but the Girl). It became the band's highest placing in the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 64. The single included founding members of the London School of Samba, notably Bosco de Oliveira and Dawson Miller. Other early members of the group also performed with the band. The debut album Working Nights was released in April 1985, with vocalist Juliet Roberts added as a member of the band. Initial copies of the LP had a bonus 12" disc with (Jalaluddin) Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (also known as Lightnin' Rod, birth name Alafia Pudin) of The Last Poets. Roberts continued as singer on the 1986 album Compañeros and Surrender, released in 1987, but left the band after that year's single, "Knocking on Your Door"...
traxfromwax:1 Inner City Blues 2 Sweet Nothing 3 Who's Fooling Who 4 I Thought I'd Never See You Again 5 Autumn Boy 6 Solo 7 Venceremos 8 No Cure No Pay
Ripped from Vinyl by RYP with Audacity 3.2.3 : Thorens TD 318/Audio-Technica 95E - Yamaha A-S301 - Q Acoustics 3020i / Yamaha NS-SW050

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Working Week "Working Nights"
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Arrgghh!!! My long lost album... I bought this when it came out and someone borrowed it - never to be seen again... I thought their version of "Inner City Groove" was brilliant... brings back fantastic memories of the 80s ... they were definitely the days... Thanks Ryp!!!!!!!!!
I agree, loved this album from the moment it reached my ears but haven't heard it in 30 years at least.. thank you RYP!
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