Klaus Nomi on A&M

[atcofan]

Until the 1998 CD Single 'Za Bak Daz' (HelioCentric) and
the 1999 CD compilation
'Eclipsed: The Best Of Klaus Nomi'
(Razor & Tie 82207-2),
only ONE song by Klaus Nomi had been released in the USA:

"Total Eclipse" (live)/"Total Eclipse" (live)
A&M Promo-only 12" SP-17178, 1981
from: Urgh! A Music War! Soundtrack,
A&M LP SP-6019, 1981

Klaus Nomi's Urgh! spot is featured in
The Nomi Song
A Film by Andrew Horn (2004)
http://thenomisong.com

See also

Klaus Nomi: Key Of Life
http://www.geocities.com/marcapreguntas/nomi1.htm

Urgh! A Music War
Yahoo Group (283 members)
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/urghmusic/

 

[LPJim]

I had never heard of Klaus Nomi until, while driving and listening to talk radio, he was mentioned during the Rush Limbaugh program. Part of his cover version of Leslie Gore's "You Don't Own Me" was played.
The performance was highly theatrical and demonstrated an incredible range..
Somewhere I read that Nomi died, a victim of AIDS, in the mid-80s.
JB

 

[atcofan]

Rush actually sells Klaus Nomi CDs:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/limbaugh/musicdvd.guest.html

 

[Mr Bill]

I.R.S. Records actually announced they were going to release Nomi's debut LP, but his manager made a mistake and the rights actually belonged to RCA who chose (for whatever reason) to not release any Nomi material in the US of A (nor to allow I.R.S. to license it). This is part of the reason he was featured in the A&M/I.R.S.-heavy Urgh! movie and soundtrack. So while he was never signed to A&M he was "sort of" signed to I.R.S.

My Klaus Nomi page over at www.irscorner.com is still in the works but should be up soon...

--Mr Bill

 

[AM Matt]

On the opening of Rush Limbaugh show, the song "My City Was Gone" by the group The Pretenders is being played. That song was the flip side of "Back On The Chain Gang" from the Summer of 1983. Both songs also appear on "Learning To Crawl" from 1984 as well as "The Singles" from 1987. Matt Clark Sanford, MI