Bikini Red - Album & Singles

Bikini Red
1987

WEA (WX117)
Elektra (9 60755-2)

Produced by Vic Maile

Mixed by Chris Lord Alge at The Hit Factory, New York
Engineers: Ian Caple and Harold Burgen

All songs written by Bill Carter except Bikini Red, Big Brother Muscle, I Wanna Be A Flintstone, Lie Detector, 55 - The Law and All Shook Down by Bill Carter / Tony Moon

US LP

Side One

1: Sweet Water Pools (3:32)
2: Bikini Red (3:47)
3: Too Much Love (3:07)
4: I Can Speak American (2:57)
5: Big Brother Muscle (2:59)

Side Two

1: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (2:31)
2: Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge (4:01)
3: Lie Detector (3:59)
4: 55-The Law (2:10)
5: All Shook Down (2:16)
6: Waltz (3:31)

January 1987 saw the band return to the studio to record their second full length album, which features one of the greatest opening tracks of all time - Sweet Water Pools. Sharing song-writing duties again with Bill on half the album was Tony Moon of Motor Boys Motor. The MBM album had featured a song called Here Come The Flintstones, and they returned to the theme to concoct a throw-away tune about the cartoon caveman that was to prove to be both their only UK top ten hit and the beginning of the end of the love affair with the UK music press. I Wanna Be A Flintstone got them onto Top Of The Pops and onto the soundtrack of the Flintsones feature film years later - though curiously it appears in the US cut of the film but not the UK version.

Bikini Red
12"
1987

WEA (YZ 158 T)

Produced by Vic Maile

All songs written by Bill Carter / Tony Moon

A-Side
1: Bikini Red (3:47)

B-Side
2: All Shook Down (2:16)
3: 55-The Law (2:10)

All tracks from the album.

Bikini Red
7"
1987

WEA (YZ 158)

Produced by Vic Maile

All songs written by Bill Carter / Tony Moon

A-Side
1: Bikini Red (3:47)

B-Side
2: All Shook Down (2:16)

Bikini Red
12" promo
1987

Elektra

I Wanna Be A Flintstone
12"
1988

WEA (YZ 166 T)

Produced by Vic Maile

All songs written by Bill Carter / Tony Moon

A-Side
1: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (Extended Mix) (5:20))

B-Side
2: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (2:29)
3: Jerry's Electric Church (3:33)

I Wanna Be A Flintstone
7"
1988

WEA (YZ 166)

A-Side
1: Wanna Be A Flintstone (2:29)

B-Side
2: Jerry's Electric Church (3:33)

I Wanna Be A Flintstone
12" Picture Disc
1988

WEA (YZ 166 TP)

A-Side
1: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (Bedrock Mix) (5:06)

B-Side
2: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (2:29)
3: Jerry's Electric Church (3:34)

I Wanna Be A Flintstone
7" Picture Disc
1988

WEA (YZ 166P)

A-Side
1: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (2:29)

B-Side
2: Jerry's Electric Church (3:34)

I Wanna Be A Flintstone
7" Promo
1988

A-Side
1: I Wanna Be A Flintstone (2:29)

B-Side
2: Jerry's Electric Church (3:34)

B
B

I Wanna Be A Flintstone
7" Test Pressing
1988

I Can Speak American 12"
1987

WEA (YZ 176T)

I Can Speak American produced by Vic Maile, mixed by Chris Lord-Alge
Remix produced by Bruce Lampcov

Good & Gone produced by Vic Maile

Twin Cadillac Valentine produced by Howard Gray

All songs written by Bill Carter

A-Side
1: I Can Speak American (Extended Remix) (4:48)

B-Side
2: Good And Gone (1:40)
3: Twin Cadillac Valentine (3:54)

I Can Speak American 7"
1987

WEA (YZ 176)

Produced by Vic Maile

I Can Speak American produced by Vic Maile, mixed by Chris Lord-Alge

All songs written by Bill Carter / Tony Moon

A-Side
1: I Can Speak American (3:08)

B-Side
2: Good And Gone (1:40)

I Wanna Be A Flintstone

I wander around in the twilight zone
A little baby Flintstone all on my own
I wander around in the twilight zone
A little baby Flintstone all on my own

Betty and Barney are the folks next door
I'm crawling around all over the floor
(Yabba dabba doo time Yabba dabba doo time)

I wander around in the twilight zone
A little baby Flintstone on my own
I wander around in the twilight zone
A little baby Flintstone on my own

I live in a house with a bedrock door
I crawl around all over the floor
(Yabba dabba doo time Yabba dabba doo time)

I wander around in the twilight zone
A little baby Flintstone all on my own
I wander around in the twilight zone
Baby Flintstone all on my own

Dino is my dinosaur
His tail's in the kitchen
And his head's out the door
(Yabba dabba doo time Yabba dabba doo time)

Dino Dino (Yabba dabba doo time)
Have you seen Wilma (Yabba dabba doo time)
(Little baby Flintstone)
What did you say Wilma
(I wanna be a Flintstone) Wilma
(Yabba dabba doo time) Wilma
(Little baby Flintstone) Wilma
(Yabba dabba doo time Yabba dabba doo time)
(Yabba dabba doo time) Wilma Wilma
(Yabba dabba doo time Yabba dabba doo time)
(Yabba dabba doo time)

Hold it hold it hold it hold it
Hold it hold it hold it

Oh boy

I Can Speak American

(Hey! Shut your mouth!)

East is east, west is west
I don't know which I like the best
Gonna take my partner by the hand
Take her to the promised land
And all the people I know has said
Big rubba Dubba gonna come today

Do you like drugs?
Do you like killin'?
Do you like listenin' to "Boogie Chillun?"
Gonna fly this plane over the sea
Light it up like a christmas tree
And all the people I know has said
Big rubba Dubba gonna come today

I can speak American
I can speak American
Just like Charlie Chan
And Lois Lane and Superman
I'm a roadrunner, baby
You know what I am
I can speak American
Just like Lois Lane
And Charlie Chan and Superman

I don't like Jerry but I do like Tom
And what they did to Tom was wrong
I don't the police but I do like Kong
What they did to Kong was wrong
It was wrong
What they did to Kong, it was wrong
It was a big wrong – a big W!
Can you wear a suit on Mars?

Yes you can, if you wear it well
I got a suit and I wear it well
"No, dummy, a space suit! It's a space suit, dummy!
Ya see the DOME? Ya see the CHROME DOME?
It's a space suit, with a big W on the front!

I can speak American
I can speak American
Just like Charlie Chan
And Lois Lane and Superman
I'm a roadrunner, baby
You know what I am
I can speak American
Just like Lois Lane
And Charlie Chan and Superman

Listen
Listen to me
A tisket, a tasket
A green and yellow basket
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I lost it
O solo mio