After rising to prominence after guesting as a vocalist on the Beatmaster’s ‘Hey DJ – I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing)’, Betty Boo – real name, Alison Clarkson – released her debut album, Boomania, in September of 1990. The album peaked at number four on the UK album chart, and featured three top-ten singles, including ‘Where Are You Baby’, which reached number three.
This was followed up by 1992’s GRR! It’s Betty Boo, but that album did not enjoy the same level of commercial success as its predecessor, spawning just one UK hit, ‘Let Me Take You There’. It would be Betty Boo’s last studio album before her Boomerang comeback of 2022.
The new reissues are available as 2CD sets (in clamshell boxes), on coloured vinyl and as cassettes. If you are thinking the 2CD sets will be redundant, thanks to the pretty good 2016 Cherry Red editions, think again, since these 2025 re-releases feature a revamped track-listing on each album’s second disc. For example, on the new Boomania 2CD deluxe, the 12-inch version ‘Boo’s Boogie’ doesn’t feature and there are different mixes of ‘Doin’ The Do’, ‘Where Are You Baby’, and ‘Hey DJ’, including a club mix by Clivilles and Cole. The same is true for GRRR! It’s Betty Boo which offers different mixes from the 2016 version for almost every track, baring the twelve-inch version of ‘Jet Set’.
Boomania is available as a magenta vinyl pressing and GRRR It’s Betty Boo will be available on green vinyl. No bonus tracks on the vinyl editions, which is also true of cassette versions that are available. Signed editions are available at the Official Betty Boo Shop, and you don’t have to buy a bundle to get them.
Boomania and GRRR It’s Betty Boo! will be released on 28 March 2025, via Betty Boo Records.
Hey DJ / I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing)
Boo Is Booming
Boo’s Boogie
24 Hours
Valentine’s Day
Doin’ The Do (King John 7-inch Mix)
(‘Til My Last Breath) Doin’ It To Def
Don’t Know What To Do
Shame
Mumbo Jumbo
Leave Me Alone
Doin’ The Do (7-inch Radio Mix) (Mixed By Beatmasters)
Where Are You Baby? (King John Mix)
CD 2
Betty Boo megamix
Doin’ The Do – Beatmasters Club mix
Doin’ The Do – Damned If You Do mix
Doin’ The Do – Doin’ the Wop mix
Hey DJ – Club House mix (Clivilles and Cole)
Hey DJ – Razormaid 12″ mix
Where Are You Baby? – Shakedown mix
Where Are You Baby? – Razormaid extended mix
Where Are You Baby (12″ Peter Lorimer version)
24 Hours – Oratronic mix (Vince Clark)
24 Hours – Norman Cook remix
Shame – Hoodlum mix
Vinyl and Cassette
Where Are You Baby? 7″ mix
Hey DJ / I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing)
Boo Is Booming
Boo’s Boogie
24 Hours
Valentine’s Day
Doin’ The Do (King John 7″ Mix)
(‘Til My Last Breath) Doin’ It To Def
Don’t Know What To Do
Shame
Mumbo Jumbo
Leave Me Alone
Tracklisting
GRRR It’s Betty Boo!Betty Boo/
CD 1
I’m on My Way
Thing Goin’ On
Hangover
Curly & Girly
Wish You Were Here
Let Me Take You There
Gave You the Boo
Skin Tight
Catch Me
Close the Door
CD 2
Let Me Take You There – Ubiquity mix
Let Me Take You There – Take You There mix
I’m On My Way – Underground mix (Ben Leibrand) (German promo)
I’m On My Way – Club mix (German promo)
Hangover – Saturday Night remix
Hangover – Sunday Morning remix
Thing Goin’ On – 12″ mix
Thing Goin’ On – Hip Hop 12″
Catch Me – Def version (David Morales remix)
Catch Me – UK mix (David Morales remix)
Platform Shoe Shuffle – Dub
Jet Sex – 12″ version
Vinyl and Cassette
I’m on My Way
Thing Goin’ On
Hangover
Curly & Girly
Wish You Were Here
Let Me Take You There
Gave You the Boo
Skin Tight
Catch Me
Close the Door
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