Chris Isaak - a latterday Sanford Clark - here are his early hits at a NICE price.
1.Wicked game 2.You owe me some kind of love 3.Blue Spanish sky 4.Heart shaped world 5.Heart full of soul 6.Funeral in the rain 7.Blue hotel 8.Dancin' 9.Nothing's changed 10.Voodoo 11.Lie to me 12.Wicked game (Instrumental)
Chris Isaak
"It's ironic that MTV, which prides itself on replacing the old and tired with the new and exciting, played a major role in establishing Chris Isaak (b. June 26, 1956, Stockton, California) as a star in the early '90s. While the video of his 1990 single 'Wicked Game' followed all of the network's unspoken rules - it was shot by trendy 'name' director Herb Ritts, it featured the handsome singer erotically embracing 'name' model Helena Christensen on a beach - the song itself could have been written and sung 30 years earlier. Chris Isaak's circle of business acquaintances may include hot '90s icons like David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda, and his face may appear on the cover of such up-to-the-minute fashion magazines as Elle, but his music comes from the same territories Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, and Ricky Nelson explored long ago. Chris Isaak, who grew up in Stockton, California, claims a childhood of listening to country & western music, crooners like Dean Martin and Bing Crosby, and - in his words - the 'obscure genius' of Louis Prima. He attended college in Japan, where he pursued amateur boxing (as evidenced by the shape of his nose) and initially heard Presley's famous Sun Records recordings - which, he says, inspired him to begin his singing career. He eventually returned to San Francisco, where he performed as a soloist, then assembled a backing trio dubbed Silvertone. An extended stay at a local club brought him to the attention of producer Erik Jacobsen, who had previously worked with the Lovin' Spoonful, Tim Hardin, and Sopwith Camel, among others, and helped Chris Isaak sign his deal with Warner Bros. Chris Isaak garnered much early press attention with 1985's Silvertone, though most of it focused on what he seemed to represent - a darkly attractive musical throwback who looked like Elvis Presley and sounded like Roy Orbison - rather than the quality of his songs, which despite their retro/rockabilly feel were substantial. Both his debut and 1987's Chris Isaak sold poorly domestically (only the second charted, peaking at No. 194 in two weeks), but the latter's 'Blue Hotel' was a major hit in France; the group subsequently spent much time working the European market to great success. A cameo appearance in Jonathan Demme's 1988 film Married To The Mob triggered an entirely new career for Chris Isaak; further film work would include another cameo in Demme's Silence Of The Lambs, a role in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and by 1993, a starring role in Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha. Rather than interfering with his music, Chris Isaak's film activities have actually helped him. An Atlanta disc jockey who'd heard 'Wicked Game' in Lynch's 1990 film Wild At Heart single-handedly resuscitated the song and helped make it a top 10 single 18 months after its release on Chris Isaak's 1989 set Heart Shaped World - a record both Chris Isaak and Warner Bros. had thought long dead. As a result, the album finally entered the top 10 and went platinum in 1991." Dave Dimartino
Chris Isaak - a latterday Sanford Clark - here are his early hits at a NICE price.