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This Is the House
"This Is The House" The 12 inch single featured an extended remix of the
track, plus four songs recorded on Eurythmics 1982 tour.
This extended mix, plus the live version of "Your Time
Will Come", were omitted from SonyBMG’s 2005 remas-
ter package, and remain unavailable on CD.
Track listing
7"
• A: "This is the House"
• B: "Home is Where the Heart Is"
12"
• "This is the House" (extended remix)
• "Your Time Will Come" (live)
• "Never gonna cry again" [live]
• "4/4 in leather" [live]
Single by Eurythmics • "Take me to your heart" [live]
from the album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Released March 1982 Personnel
Format 7", 12"
"This is the House"
Recorded 1981, 1982
• Annie Lennox: vocals
Genre New Wave, Electronica, Synthpop, Dance, • Dave Stewart: synthesisers & sequencers, backing
Progressive Pop vocals
Length — • Andy Brown: bass guitar
• Reynard Falconer: bass section synthesisers
Label RCA • Dick Cuthell: horns
Producer David A. Stewart & Adam Williams • John Turnbull: guitar
• Adam Williams: backing vocals
Eurythmics singles chronology
• Maria El Vira Behro-Garcia: South American girl
"Belinda" "This Is The House
This House" "The Walk"
• Mercedes special guest
(1981) (1982) (1982) • Chantal Arnaud, Nadine Masseron, Emily McLeod,
Pauline Stride: street chorus
This House"
"This Is the House was Eurythmics’ third single, record-
ed in 1982 on their own 8-track home studio in north
"Home is Where the Heart Is"
London, built with a personal bank loan from group • Ann Lennox: vocals
member David A. Stewart’s bank manager rather than • Dave Stewart: synthesisers and sequencers
record company support. Although the following year • Adam Williams: bass guitar
it was included on the group’s hugely successful Sweet
Dreams (Are Made of This) album, the single itself was a Live tracks
commercial flop, failing to chart. No music video was • Annie Lennox: vocals, flute
made for the single. • David A Stewart: double-neck electric guitar/bass
The recordings were produced by Stewart and Adam guitar
Williams, ex-bassist of Two Tone Records band The Selec- • Tim Wheater: synthesizer, oriental flute
tor. They showcased a new sound and direction from the • Adam Williams: record (live & direct) and mix (On
group, focusing on synthesizers and drum machines as Stage)
opposed to the psychedelic guitar-based band sound of • the other instruments were playing off backing
their In the Garden album. tape.(Directed by Adam Williams)
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