Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)
Label: | Mercury – 868 209-1 |
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Format: | Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM |
Country: | US |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic |
Style: | House, Garage House |
Tracklist
A1 | Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Red Bone Club Mix) | 7:08 | |
A2 | Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Radio Mix) | 3:48 | |
B1 | Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Basement Boys "Strip To The Bone" Mix) | 7:26 | |
B2 | Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Hump Instrumental Mix) | 4:53 |
Companies, etc.
- Copyright © – Mercury
- Copyright © – PolyGram Records, Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – PolyGram Records, Inc.
- Record Company – Basement Boys Productions
- Published By – Basement Boys Music
- Lacquer Cut At – DMS (2)
- Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
- Manufactured By – PolyGram Records, Inc.
- Marketed By – PolyGram Records, Inc.
Credits
- Executive-Producer – Bruce Carbone
- Keyboards – Neal Conway
- Lacquer Cut By – Herbie Jr*
- Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By – The Basement Boys
- Written-By – C. Waters*, N. Conway*
Notes
Basement Boys Music (ASCAP)
℗ 1991 PolyGram Records, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.
Runouts: all etched, SRC logo stamped
"Basement Boys Productions" only appears on stickered editions.
℗ 1991 PolyGram Records, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.
Runouts: all etched, SRC logo stamped
"Basement Boys Productions" only appears on stickered editions.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 422-868209-1
- Barcode (Scanned): 042286820910
- Rights Society: ASCAP
- Pressing Plant ID (Label sides A & B): 49
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): [SRC logo] 868-209-1-AS-SP I-I DMS HERBIE JR :^) Yᴏ DJ's This BEATS FOR YOU!!
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): [SRC logo] 868-209-1-BS-SP DMS HERBIE JR :^) IT's PUMPED FOR ThE 90'S "LA DA DEE.... I-I
Other Versions (5 of 70)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da) (CD, Single) | Mercury | 868 397-2 | Europe | 1991 | |||
Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (12", 45 RPM) | Mercury | 868 397-1 | Europe | 1991 | |||
Recently Edited | Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) (12", 45 RPM) | A&M PM, A&M PM, A&M Records, A&M Records | AMY 772, 390 772-1 | UK & Europe | 1991 | ||
Recently Edited | Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da) (7", 45 RPM, Single) | Mercury | 868 396-7 | France | 1991 | ||
Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (CD, Maxi-Single) | Mercury | 868 209-2 | US | 1991 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Discogs manipulates the stats on the sale of records. A few months ago a sealed copy was sold on Discogs by a Japanese record store for over $100. Now the most recent copy sold for is $27.00. TF! 😳 is going on here?
- that wonderful needless barcode.....was this to save money on black ink at the printers...it just looks in one word.....vile
- Probably one of the most influential house songs of all time. The organ part is so iconic and sampled a lot. She’s Homeless is the epitome of what House is. I also enjoyed the instrumental version a lot more.
- "Deep House"????? Seriously???? It's pure "Garage house", or "Soulful House", but it's far, far, far awy from "deep house"!!
- Can I ask the audience why the production is credited to Maurice Fulton in so many magazines and places on the internet when he is nowhere to be seen in the credits of this one? He is on the later 100% Pure Love, I know.
- Can someone help me figure out which remix this is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=163&v=KUVrfFQ1wUQ&feature=emb_logo - Edited 6 years agogoing to try to review this record without using the word crossover, like my predecessors. it's impossible to convey just how huge this record was. This was on the radio, video shows, clubs, raves... Those keys are timeless. 5 stars. This will rock any party... and dont forget about that instrumental! wow
- This song was such a crossover smash, it reached the U.S. Billboard Pop chart at #8, and the R&B chart at #25. Everybody was singing along to this without knowing it was House music! Got myself two copies.
- I recall an interview with a Dutch dance music magazine about this tune. Crystal: "I was hanging out in my apartment, minding my own business, and after some time, a homeless lady was sitting outside in the vicinity of where I lived, singing all kinds of things. One of these tunes kept lingering in my head, it went like "la da dee, la da da" all the time. I simply could not get it out, so I decided to incorporate the "la da dee, la da da" as an ad-lib and write a song around it, describing all I observed."
It's a common legend that initially, Crystal Waters did not want to record the song herself (her voclas not being good enough), but preferred to give it to Ultra Naté. However, after hearing a home-recorded demo, the Basement Boys insisted that Crystal would sing it herself.
The rest is history. The Basement Boys turned the demo into a club smash, which crossed over to lots of radio stations and charted No. 1 in various countries.
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