Red Hot + Blue

This article is about the AIDS-benefit compilation album. For the musical after which this album was named, see Red, Hot and Blue. For other uses, see Red, Hot and Blue (disambiguation).

Red Hot + Blue

Compilation album by Various artists

Released

September 25, 1990

Genre

Pop, rock

Length

98:19

Label

Chrysalis

Producer

Steve Lillywhite, Afrika Bambaataa

Red Hot Organization chronology

Red Hot + Blue
(1990)

Red Hot + Dance
(1992)

Alternative cover

2006 CD/DVD re-issue

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Red Hot + Blue is the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization. The recording was the first in the Red Hot Benefit Series. It features contemporary pop performers reinterpreting several songs of Cole Porter, and the title of the album comes from Cole Porter's musical Red, Hot and Blue.

Released in 1990, it sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business. The accompanying ABC television special featured video clips for all but two of the songs. The clips portrayed the societal effects of AIDS.

Neneh Cherry's reworked version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" was released as the lead single for the album in the UK and Europe and reached number 25 in the UK Singles Chart.

Although no singles were released from the album in the United States the song "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", covered in a techno style by Thompson Twins, received regular airplay on San Francisco's Live 105 (KITS). This was one of the two songs not to have a video counterpart. U2's cover of "Night and Day" reached #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and presaged the electronic sound the band would explore on Achtung Baby the following year.

In 2006 Red Hot + Blue was re-issued as a two-disc set including the original CD remastered, and a DVD of the video collection.

Track listing

"I've Got You Under My Skin" performed by Neneh Cherry (Video by Jean-Baptiste Mondino)
"In the Still of the Night" performed by The Neville Brothers (Video by Jonathan Demme)
"You Do Something to Me" performed by Sinéad O'Connor (video by John Maybury)
"Begin the Beguine" performed by Salif Keita (video by Zak Ove)
"Love for Sale" performed by Fine Young Cannibals
"Well, Did You Evah!" performed by Deborah Harry + Iggy Pop (video by Alex Cox)
"Miss Otis Regrets / Just One of Those Things" performed by The Pogues + Kirsty MacColl (video by Neil Jordan)
"Don't Fence Me In" performed by David Byrne (video by David Byrne)
"It's All Right with Me" performed by Tom Waits (video by Jim Jarmusch)
"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" performed by Annie Lennox (video by Ed Lachman)
"Night and Day" performed by U2 (video by Wim Wenders)
"I Love Paris" performed by Les Negresses Vertes (video by Roger Pomphrey)
"So in Love" performed by k.d. lang (video by Percy Adlon)
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" performed by Thompson Twins
"Too Darn Hot" performed by Erasure (video by Adelle Lutz and Sandy McLeod)
"I Get a Kick" performed by The Jungle Brothers (video by Mark Pellington)
"Down in the Depths" performed by Lisa Stansfield (video by Phillippe Gautier)
"From This Moment On" performed by Jimmy Somerville (video by Steve Mclean)
"After You, Who?" performed by Jody Watley (video by Matthew Rolston)
"Do I Love You?" performed by Aztec Camera (video by John Scarlett-Davies)

References

↑ Allmusic review

Red Hot Organization benefit albums

Jimmy Somerville

Studio albums

Bronski Beat	The Age of Consent (1984) Rainbow Nation (1995)

The Communards	Communards (1986) Red (1987)

Read My Lips (1989) Dare to Love (1995) Manage the Damage (1999) Home Again (2004) Suddenly Last Summer (2009) Homage (2015)

Remix albums

Bronski Beat	Hundreds & Thousands (1985)

Root Beer (2000)

Live albums

The Communards	Storm Paris (1988)

Compilations

The Communards	Heaven (1993) Het Beste Van The Communards (2005) The Platinum Collection (2006)

Best (1989) The Singles Collection 1984/1990 (1990) Master Series (1991) The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and The Communards (2001) The Essentials (2002) For a Friend: The Best of Bronski Beat, The Communards & Jimmy Somerville (2009) Dance & Desire: Rarities & Videos (2014)

Other albums

Fine Young Cannibals (1985)
(VA) Red Hot + Blue (1990)
(OST) Orlando (1993)
Plagiarism (1997)
Another Gay Soundtrack (2006)
Clubland 10 (2006)

Extended plays

Bright Thing (2010)
Momentum (2011)

Singles

Bronski Beat	"Smalltown Boy" (1984) "Why?" (1984) "It Ain't Necessarily So" (1984) "I Feel Love" with Marc Almond (1985) "Run from Love" (1985) "Smalltown Boy ('94 Remix)" (1994) "Why? (1995 Remix)" (1995)

The Communards	"You Are My World" (1985) "Disenchanted" (1986) "Don't Leave Me This Way" (1986) "So Cold The Night" (1986) "You Are My World ('87 Remix)" (1987) "Tomorrow" (1987) "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1987) "For a Friend" (1988) "There's More to Love" (1988)

"Suspicious Minds" with Fine Young Cannibals (1986) "The Last Infanta" with Uno (1988) "Comment te dire adieu" with June Miles-Kingston (1989) "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (1990) "Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)" (1990) "To Love Somebody" (1990) "Smalltown Boy ('91 Remix)" (1991) "Run from Love ('91 Remix)" with Claudia Brücken "Coming" (1993) "Gimme Shelter" with Voice of the Beehive (1993) "Heartbeat" (1995) "Hurt So Good" (1995) "By Your Side" (1995) "Star" with The Weather Girls (1996) "Safe" (1997) "Dark Sky" (1997) "The Number One Song in Heaven" with Sparks (1997) "Something to Live for" (1999) "Lay Down" (1999) "Why? (Almighty Mix)" (2000) "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (2001) "It's So Good" (2004) "Come On" (2004) "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (2004) "You & Me" with Blue Ray (2007) "I Believe in Love (Remix)" with Arthur Baker (2011)

Other songs	"Love to Love You Baby" (1985) "Johnny Remember Me" (1985} "Lover Man" (1986) "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with Band Aid II (1989) "From This Moment On" (1990) "Someday We'll Be Together" (1995) "But Not Tonight" (2004) "I Was Born This Way" (2006) "Tell Me Why" (2006)

Video albums

Bronski Beat	The First Chapter (1985)

The Communards	The Video Singles (1986) Live at Full House Rock Show (2006)

The Video Collection 1984/1990 (1990)

Filmography

Ahí Te Quiero Ver (TV series) (1987)
Looking for Langston (1989)
Orlando (1992)
Lexx: "Girltown" (TV series) (2000)

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