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Living in the Background
Living in the Background
	Italian and German cover
Studio album by Baltimora
Released	April 1985
Genre	Italo disco; new wave;
Length	34:01
Label	EMI
Producer	Maurizio Bassi
Baltimora chronology
Singles from Living in the Background
	"Tarzan Boy"; Released: April 1985; "Woody Boogie"; Released: 1985; "Living in the Background"; Released: 1985; "Juke Box Boy"; Released: 1986;
US and Canadian cover
UK cover

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Music Week	^[2]

Living in the Background is the debut studio album by Italian-based act Baltimora, released in the United States in April 1985 by EMI-Manhattan Records and in Europe on 4 September 1985 by EMI.

Overview

Jimmy McShane supposedly performed the lead vocals, although there is some controversy surrounding who the actual singer is, while the songs were written by Maurizio Bassi and Naimy Hackett. "Tarzan Boy", the first single released from the album, became an international success, peaking at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and at number three in the United Kingdom. "Woody Boogie" and "Living in the Background" were also released as singles, with the latter becoming the group's only other song to crack the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 87 on the chart.

The album has been released with at least three different covers. The US and Canadian cover features Jimmy McShane jumping in the air on a red background with black text. The text is an extract from a prose poem by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, "Le Phénomène Futur" (The Future Phenomenon).^[3]

The album has also been released and re-released in various forms, though none of these different versions of the album seem to correlate with any particular one of the various album covers. A bonus track from one of these later pressings of the album, "Juke Box Boy" was also released as a single.

The original CD issue of Living in the Background, from 2003, is out-of-print. An Italian CD release was issued in 2005, and that same year an unofficial Russian release circulated too.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Naimy Hackett and Maurizio Bassi

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tarzan Boy"	6:15
2.	"Pull the Wires"	4:46
3.	"Living in the Background"	6:06
4.	"Woody Boogie"	5:50
5.	"Chinese Restaurant"	5:14
6.	"Running for Your Love"	5:50

UK edition
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tarzan Boy" (12″ Summer version)	6:41
2.	"Pull the Wires"	4:46
3.	"Living in the Background"	6:06
4.	"Tarzan Boy" (7″ Summer version)	3:27
5.	"Woody Boogie" (12″ Jump mix)	5:50
6.	"Chinese Restaurant"	5:14
7.	"Running for Your Love"	5:50
8.	"Woody Boogie"	3:37

Canadian edition (1986)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tarzan Boy" (Single version)
2.	"Living in the Background" (Remix by John Luongo)
3.	"Juke Box Boy"
4.	"Pull the Wires"
5.	"Woody Boogie"
6.	"Chinese Restaurant"
7.	"Running for Your Love"
8.	"Up with Baltimora"

1993 re-release
No.	Title	Length
7.	"Tarzan Boy" (Summer version)	6:40
8.	"Juke Box Boy"	3:42
9.	"Up with Baltimora"	2:51
10.	"Tarzan Boy" (Remix 1993)	3:43
11.	"Jungle Life" (Dub)	5:00
12.	"Tarzan Boy" (Extended mix)	5:29

Personnel

Musicians

Maurizio Bassi – keyboards, piano, lead vocals
Leandro Gaetano – keyboards, Fairlight CMI programming, PPG Wave 2.3, Xpander, Yamaha synthesizer
Claudio Bazzari, Giorgio Cocilovo – electric guitars
Claudio Pascoli – saxophone
Pier Michelatti – bass
Gabriele Melotti – drums, Linn drum programming, Simmons EDS 7
Moreno Ferrara, Malcom Charlton, Silvano Fossati, Naimy Hackett, Lella Esposito, Jimmy McShane, Silver Pozzoli – backing vocals