Like A Virgin

align="center" colspan="3" bgcolor="orange" style="color:black"|Like a Virgin
lign="center" colspan="3"|
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Album by Madonna
lign="left" valign="top"|Released align="left" colspan=2|November 12, 1984
lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|???
lign="left" valign="top"|Genre align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|Pop
lign="left" valign="top"|Length align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|38 min 02 sec
lign="left" valign="top"|Record label align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|Sire
lign="left" valign="top"|Producers align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|Madonna,
Stephen Bray,
Nile Rodgers
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"|AMG valign="top" align=center|4.5/5 valign="top"|link
gcolor="orange" colspan="3" align="center" style="color:black;"|Madonna Chronology
i>Madonna
(1983)		 Like a Virgin
(1984)		 True Blue
(1986)
Like a Virgin (1984, see 1984 in music) was a hit album and song by Madonna. The album was #1 on Billboard Music Chart's pop albums chart and #10 on the hip hop/R&B charts. "Like a Virgin" (the song) was Madonna's biggest hit prior to "Vogue" and her biggest hit of the 1980s. It was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, and remained the #1 hit single on the Billboard pop singles charts (US) for six straight weeks. "Like a Virgin" and "Material Girl", both from this album, are two of Madonna's most enduring and well-known songs. Madonna has reinvented the song by singing it with different arrangements on her Blond Ambition tour and The Girlie Show. Madonna wears a wedding gown in the music video, which was directed by Mary Lambert. The song was the subject of a famous exegesis in the opening scene of Quentin Tarantino's film, Reservoir Dogs. It was also the subject of a parody by "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Like a Surgeon", and was performed by Jim Broadbent in the film Moulin Rouge! (2001) as a comic piece. A version of it, not a parody, was done by the folk singer John Wesley Harding on the album . A rare version of the song was a duet recorded by Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor (the Nine Inch Nails frontman). "Like A Virgin" was honored by Rolling Stone and MTV in 2000 as the #4 song on their list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs".

Track listing

  1. "Material Girl" (Brown, Rans) - 4:01
  2. "Angel" (Bray, Madonna) - 3:55
  3. "Like a Virgin" (Kelly, Steinberg) - 3:39
  4. "Over and Over" (Bray, Madonna) - 4:12
  5. "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Gregory) - 4:50
  6. "Into the Groove {From the Film Desperately Seeking Susan}" (Bray, Madonna) - 4:43
  7. "Dress You Up" (LaRusso, Stanziale) - 4:01
  8. "Shoo-Bee-Doo" (Madonna) - 5:17
  9. "Pretender" (Madonna) - 4:30
  10. "Stay" (Bray, Madonna) - 4:06

Personnel

  • Madonna - vocals, background vocals
  • Bernard Edwards - bass
  • Brenda King - background vocals
  • Curtis King
  • Lenny Pickett - saxophone
  • Nile Rodgers - guitar, synclavier
  • Robert Sabino - synthesizer
  • Frank Simms - background vocals
  • George Simms - background vocals
  • Tony Thompson - drums

Production

  • Producers: Madonna, Stephen Bray, Nile Rodgers
  • Engineer: Jason Corsaro
  • Production manager: Budd Tunick
  • Drum programming: Jimmy Bralower
  • Art direction: Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
  • Design: Jeffrey Kent Ayer, Jeri McManus
  • Photography: Steven Meisel

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
lign="left"|Chart align="left"|Position
lign="left"|1984 align="left"|The Billboard 200 align="left"|1
lign="left"|1984 align="left"|Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums align="left"|10
Singles - Billboard (North America)
lign="left"|Single align="left"|Chart align="left"|Position
lign="left"|1984 align="left"|"Like a Virgin" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Club Play align="left"|1
lign="left"|1984 align="left"|"Like a Virgin" align="left"|Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks align="left"|9
lign="left"|1984 align="left"|"Like a Virgin" align="left"|The Billboard Hot 100 align="left"|1
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Angel" align="left"|Adult Contemporary align="left"|5
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Angel" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Club Play align="left"|1
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Angel" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales align="left"|1
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Angel" align="left"|Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks align="left"|71
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Angel" align="left"|The Billboard Hot 100 align="left"|5
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Dress You Up" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Club Play align="left"|3
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Dress You Up" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales align="left"|1
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Dress You Up" align="left"|Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks align="left"|64
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Dress You Up" align="left"|The Billboard Hot 100 align="left"|5
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Like a Virgin" align="left"|Adult Contemporary align="left"|29
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Material Girl" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Club Play align="left"|1
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Material Girl" align="left"|Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales align="left"|2
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Material Girl" align="left"|Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks align="left"|49
lign="left"|1985 align="left"|"Material Girl" align="left"|The Billboard Hot 100 align="left"|2

 

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