One night in Bangkok
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"One night in Bangkok" is a song featuring Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell from the album Featuring. It was chosen as a double A-side single with "February song". Originally written by Benny and Björn from ABBA, along with Tim Rice, the song appeared in the musical Chess and has the curious accolade of being one of very few top-20 hits which mentions Dan's hometown of Hastings.
Lyrics
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me Bangkok, oriental setting But the city don't know what the city is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world In a show with everything buy Yul Brynner Time flies, doesn't seem a minute Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boards in it All change! Don't you know that when you Play at this level, there's no ordinary venue It's Iceland, or the Philippines or Hastings Or, or this place One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister And if you're lucky then the god's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me One town's very like another When your head's down over your pieces, brother It's a drag, it's a bore It's really such a pity to be looking at the board Not looking at the city Wait a minute! You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinkin' town Tea, girls, warm and sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist Whose every move is among the purest I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me Siam's gonna be witness To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness This grips me more than would a muddy old river or reclining Buddha But, thank god I'm only watching the game, controlling it I don't see you guys rating The kind of mate I'm contemplating I'd let you watch; I would invite you But the queens we use would not excite you So you'd better back to your bars Your temples... your massage parlours One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister A little flesh, a little history I can feel an angel sliding up to me One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
Versions
- Appears on Featuring and "One night in Bangkok/February song" EP (q.v.).
- LorD and Master remix appears on "One night in Bangkok/February song" EP.
- Andrik Arkane remix appears on "One night in Bangkok/February song" EP.
EP release
- "One night in Bangkok" (featuring Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell) - 4.08
- "February song" (featuring Neil Francis) - 5.05
- "Sleeping satellite" (LorD and Master guide vocal) - 4.05
- "To the moon and back" (LorD and Master guide vocal) - 4.23
- "February song" (featuring Neil Francis) [LorD and Master remix] - 8.25
- "February song" (featuring Neil Francis) [LorD and Master ambient mix] - 5.52
- "One night in Bangkok" (featuring Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell) [Andrik Arkane remix] - 5.46
- "One night in Bangkok" (featuring Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell) [LorD and Master remix] - 6.16
- "February song" (featuring Neil Francis) [Nature of Wires remix] - 6.10
- "February song" (featuring Neil Francis) [Circuit3 remix] - 5.57
Release date: 21 February 2020.
Personnel
- Tracks 1, 7 and 8 written by Benny Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice
- Tracks 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10 written by Josh Groban, Marius de Vries and John Ondrasik.
- Track 3 written by Tasmin Archer, John Beck and John Hughes.
- Track 4 written by Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones.
- All tracks produced by Daniel Bailey-Graham.
- Vocals on tracks 1, 7 and 8 by Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell.
- Vocals on tracks 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10 by Neil Francis. Vocals recorded and engineered by Day Clifford.
- Vocals on tracks 3 and 4 by Daniel Bailey-Graham.
- Additional production on tracks 5, 6 and 8 by Daniel Bailey-Graham for LorD and Master.
- Additional production on track 7 by Andrik Arkane.
- Additional production on track 9 by Gary Watts for Nature of Wires.
- Additional production on track 10 by Peter Fitzpatrick for Circuit3.