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Fox, Emily (1 March 2022). "The Story of White Town's 1997 hit, "Your Woman"". Sound & Vision (Podcast). KEXP. Retrieved 3 June 2023.

Imperial March[edit]

is it me or this song sounds a lot like the imperial march from star wars?

Okay they specifically say that's not what it's from on their FAQ and in the article it says it sounds like the first "phrase" of the imperial walk, I didn't know it had words. CoW mAnX (talk) 04:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Phrase (music) nohat (talk) 17:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If they had to answer the question in a faq, then there's still the public perception that this song was based on the Imperial March, which is in itself noteworthy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.140.212.20 (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Source on "It features a trumpet line taken from "My Woman" by Al Bowlly"[edit]

What is the source for this claim? Allmusic.com suggests that it is built upon samples by Lew Stone. Otherwise, I want to place this article on the desputed list. RemkoPluijm (talk) 10:10, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Listening to the original Lew Stone / Al Bowlly My Woman, it's obvious that the sample is from there, though pitch shifted and retimed. The trumpet is played by Nat Gonella. --Ef80 (talk) 21:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To add to that, Jyoti Mishra pinned his own comment on his music video on his own Youtube channel, and it explains the whole thing:

"IT'S NOT STAR WARS!!! In the '90s, I bought the CD soundtrack for Dennis Potter's 'Pennies From Heaven' and on it was an amazing 1932 song called 'My Woman,' by Lew Stone And The Monseigneur Band, vocal by Al Bowlly. (This itself was a cover of the original by none other than Bing Crosby!) And that song started with a beautiful trumpet hook..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.103.37 (talk) 05:54, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Music Video[edit]

It seems like there's a lot of original research in the "Music Video" section. I don't doubt that most of it is true, but I still think it would be a good idea if someone added a source or two confirming that statements like "There is also a scene where the woman closes the door on the man's arm, as she tries to escape from his advances. This is a direct reference to a very similar scene from Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's 1928 surrealist film Un chien andalou" are true. Cheers! -Anotheronewiki (talk) 12:19, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Mixed" on Atari ST?[edit]

The Atari ST was a popular well beyond its years in production for music sequencing due to its MIDI capabilities (Fatboy Slim and other artists are well known to have used them into the early 2000s). I don't think it's possible to do anything resembling "mixing" with this hardware, so I suspect the cited source was written by someone lacking in technical understanding of music production, and it probably is in fact sequencing and not "mixing". Actually, found a better source here - mixing would have been performed using the TASCAM 688 Midistudio as described. --Zilog Jones (talk) 16:50, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The "My Woman" sample sounds bitcrushed so I assume that's on the Actual ST itself 2604:2D80:7D80:1500:0:0:0:B84 (talk) 14:43, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal (from Abort, Retry, Fail?_ (EP))[edit]

There are two articles, Your Woman and Abort, Retry, Fail?_ (EP). Yet, confusingly, neither acknowledges the other.

The latter also mentions "Your Woman" in equally prominent lettering, describes itself as a "four track CD single" and was treated as such at the time. ("Guinness" confirms my memory that it was listed in the charts as "Your Woman".).

And by that point many or most CD "singles" had three or more tracks, whether or not they'd have been classed as EPs in an earlier era.

Even if one really(!) wanted to nitpick whether or not the "EP" technically counted as a separate release, there's still (IMHO) too little difference to come close to justifying separate articles. Ubcule (talk) 20:28, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 13:35, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]