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This Lost Song is listed in the Sound ONline Inventory and Catalog (SONIC) for searching a portion of the Library of Congress Audio Collection. The catalog represents only a portion of the Library's 78 rpm discs, nearly all the 45 rpm discs, cassettes, and more.
Skirts On Fire was listed under the title, "Collection of recordings by Ellen Amos" along with the following songs:
Take You By Force
Fighting With The Wind
RC: Your next foray into recorded work was a number of demos you put down with dance producer Michael 'Narada' Walden in 1983 - what do you remember about those sessions and what were the songs you actually ended up recording ?
Tori: I went there to record songs I had produced in my own home studio with my own little drum machine and synth and piano. I'd been sending Narada tons and tons of demos, and he has them now - he could be quite cheeky and release them, but I'm hoping he doesn't. Anyway, because what was going on at the time in music had changed from that female singer/songwriter thing, to the British invasion - which had just happened - his choices about what I should record changed. I was going to record a few things, including a song called Married Men and one called British Invasion, but what we finally ended up doing was pushing it into an entirely different direction. Later on he ended up doing Sister Sledge, so , if you can imagine somewhere in between Sister Sledge and Boy George! The voice was speeded up to make it sound younger. This was just around the time when Madonna was emerging , her early years. The songs we recorded were, Skirts on Fire, Predator, Rub Down, Score, and I can't remember anything else...
RC: You sound embarrassed...
Tori: Well, if you asked me when did I start chasing it, it would have to have been then. As soon as the words "rub me, baby" came out of my mouth...it's just not as cure as when Mike Myers does it - it doesn't have the same effect. But that was when I officially became an audio-whore.
-- Tori; Record Collector Magazine, Nov 99
Jennifer Albert: Whatever became of the "dance" album you recorded with
Narada Michael Walden and *will* anything ever become of it
in the future?
Tori: These are great questions.....the dance album was a demo,
and if we need war weapons to torture our enemy, then we
should give them cassettes of this. The Baltimore single
will not be re-released, of course not. And I loved the
DAT.
-- Tori; Prodigy Q&A, September 1994
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