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- Stars on 45 ist ein Medley der gleichnamigen Gruppe aus dem Jahr 1981, das von Jaap Eggermont produziert wurde und auf dem Album Long Play Album erschien. (de)
- "Stars on 45" is a song medley issued in January 1981 by Dutch studio group Stars on 45. In some countries, including the UK, Ireland and New Zealand, the band was credited as 'Starsound' and only the medley itself was named "Stars on 45". Its official title in the US and Canada (as on the record and in Billboard and RPM) is "Medley: Intro 'Venus' / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I'll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want to Know a Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You're Going to Lose That Girl / Stars on 45" and was credited to 'Stars on 45'. It is (to date) the longest titled song to ever chart in Billboard and was conveniently shortened to "Stars on 45 Medley", or "'Medley' by Stars on 45". The length of the name surpassed the previous record set by Ray Stevens' "Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills"; and (among songs that reached number one) "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B. J. Thomas. The reason for the long title was copyright requirements for the use of The Beatles' songs. It reached number 1 in the Netherlands on February 21, 1981; number 2 in the UK on May 9, 1981; and number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 20, 1981. In the US, the single also peaked at number 18 on the dance chart. In the US, the song's one-week stay at the top of the Hot 100 interrupted the Kim Carnes single "Bette Davis Eyes" run as the number 1 single at five weeks. The next week, Carnes' song regained its number 1 status for an additional four weeks. The origin of the single was the Netherlands where numerous bootleg disco singles were floating around. Willem van Kooten, the owner of one of the copyrights, decided to make a similar, legitimate record of a 12" single titled "Let's Do It in the 80s Great Hits" credited to a Canadian group called Passion (though the snippets of songs were taken from the original recordings). He found singers who sounded similar to John Lennon and Paul McCartney and decided to make the single focus on The Beatles. The Beatles medley was later extended to a full 16-minute album side. It appeared on the Stars on 45's first full-length release, Long Play Album (US title: Stars on Long Play; UK title: Stars on 45 - The Album). The album version of the song moved "Venus" and "Sugar Sugar" to Side Two into a different medley, and added several more Beatles songs as well as a 32-second instrumental extract from George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and even a fleeting reference to new wave band Sparks' "Beat the Clock", for a total length of about 15 minutes. The album version was released as Long Play Album in the Netherlands, and retitled Stars on Long Play in the US and Stars on 45 — The Album in the UK. A detailed listing of the source material can be found in the Long Play Album article. The song also became a huge success in the UK where it kicked off a craze for medleys, with a large number of records in the Stars on 45 mould reaching the UK Top 40 in 1981. For example, The Hollies recorded "Holliedaze", a medley of some of their previous hits, which reached 28 on the UK charts with Graham Nash and Eric Haydock briefly rejoining the group in September 1981 to promote the record. Likewise, in the US the song started a medley craze that lasted for about a year and introduced not only other medleys by Stars on 45, but medleys by the Beatles themselves, The Beach Boys, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Larry Elgart and His Manhattan Swing Orchestra, as well as others. (en)
- Stars on 45 is een single van de Nederlandse discogroep Stars on 45, uitgebracht in 1981. In de Verenigde Staten haalde Stars on 45 de eerste plaats met de lange titel Medley: Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work it Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45. De reden voor de lange titel was het vermijden van hoge kosten voor het copyright dat op de originele Beatles-singles in de medley rust. De single was een complete herbewerking van een Canadese bootleg-Beatles-medley, in 1980 uitgebracht op 12-inch, die wereldwijd aansloeg maar nergens officieel verkocht werd en dus geen enkele hitparade haalde. Er waren oorspronkelijk Beatles-banden zonder toestemming van de rechthebbenden voor gebruikt, waardoor de verkoop ervan illegaal was. Willem van Kooten (alias Joost den Draaijer) stond aan de wieg van de single, omdat hij de bootleg had gehoord waarin ook een klein fragment van Venus van Shocking Blue in was opgenomen, waarvoor hij geen toestemming had gegeven. Hij besloot een legale versie van de medley te maken met behulp van Nederlandse zangers die klonken als onder andere de Beatles. Muziekproducent Jaap Eggermont (samen met Van Kooten in Red Bullet) maakte de plaat samen met arrangeur Martin Duiser. Hans Vermeulen zong de partij van George Harrison, Okkie Huijsdens die van Paul McCartney, Bas Muijs die van John Lennon. Als gitarist kwam Hans Hollestelle naar de studio. Hij verzorgde ook het handgeklap dat gedurende het gehele nummer te horen is. Cees Bergman verzorgde de stemmen van The Archies, speelde basgitaar en Jody Pijper was in de refreinen te horen. Plaats van handeling was de in Blaricum. Eggermont en Hollestelle waren uren bezig om de nummers in de (voor hen) juiste volgorde te krijgen. Eggermont constateerde dat de opnamen voor hem als een soort opleiding golden en dat het plaatje het resultaat was van ”stug volhouden”. Van de single gingen meer dan vijf miljoen exemplaren over de toonbank; in Nederland werden 150.000 exemplaren verkocht. Op de cd werden twaalf delen van Beatles liedjes opgenomen, een fragment van Venus en een deel van de hit Sugar Sugar van The Archies. In september 1981 kwam de parodie De Nederlandse sterre die strale overal van Rubberen Robbie (ook met Cees Bergman) uit, dat eveneens een nummer 1-hit werd. (nl)
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