Retrieved December 31, 2019.ItвЂ™sВ almostВ impossible to discuss pop music at the end of the 1980s without mentioning Stock, Aitken and Waterman.В For the last two years of the decade they essentially colonised the UK charts, scoringВ 13В number ones and more than 100 top 40 hits, subsequently inspiring a level of hate not seen since the вЂњDisco sucksвЂќ campaign of 1979. ^ ' вЂ“ Laura Branigan вЂ“ Shattered Glass'.^ 'Cash Box Top 100 Singles вЂ“ Week ending August 22, 1987'.^ 'Laura Branigan Chart History (Dance Club Songs)'.^ 'Laura Branigan Chart History (Adult Contemporary)'.^ 'Laura Branigan Chart History (Hot 100)'.^ 'Laura Branigan: Artist Chart History'.^ ' Laura Branigan вЂ“ Shattered Glass'.Australian Chart Book 1970вЂ“1992 (illustratedВ ed.). CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) ^ 'Say I'm Your Number One: The Stock Aitken Waterman Singles Box Set'.^ a b Shattered Glass (12-inch single).Track listings 7-inch single No.Д¬D single (as part of 2015's Say I'm Your Number One: The Singles Box Set) No.Д¬redits adapted from the liner notes of Touch. The song was also covered by Hazell Dean, who released it as a single in November 2012, including mixes produced by Matt Pop, Pete Ware, and Yisraelee. Internationally, 'Shattered Glass' reached number 26 in Switzerland, number 43 in West Germany, and number 60 in Australia.Д«ryan Buss of AllMusic would later write that, from an album that contained 'so many successfully evocative cuts lead single 'Shattered Glass' stand out you can hardly hold back from caroling along.' ДЄ remake of 'Shattered Glass' by English singer Natalie Powers was released as a single in June 2009 on Liberty City Records. The single also reached number 13 on Billboard 's Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart and number 27 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart. marked the first time a song was promoted by a guest star on the major network edition of the show, but by the time of Branigan's American Bandstand appearance, the failure of 'Shattered Glass' as a comeback vehicle for Branigan was evident, the single having stalled at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 that August. Д«ranigan's performance of 'Shattered Glass' on the September 5, 1987, broadcast of American Bandstand, which was the show's final episode on ABC. The accompanying music video features Afa AnoaК»i, a wrestler known, with his brother, as one of The Wild Samoans. 'Shattered Glass' was issued as a single in the US in June 1987 with 'Statue in the Rain' вЂ“ a song recorded for Touch with Kershenbaum and omitted from the vinyl version of the album to accommodate the inclusion of the Stock Aitken Waterman tracks вЂ“ serving as the B-side the 12вЂі single version of the track was remixed by Pete Hammond. Besides 'Shattered Glass', the PWL session produced Branigan's recording of ' Whatever I Do', a Stock Aitken Waterman original previously recorded in 1984 by English singer Hazell Dean. Originally the Touch album was to totally be a collaboration with producer David Kershenbaum, but after completing her recording with Kershenbaum, Branigan, who was especially interested in scoring a strong successful single, as her previous album, Hold Me, had only spawned a mildly successful single in ' Spanish Eddie' (number 40), made an overnight foray to England to record at the PWL Studios in London with Stock Aitken Waterman, at the time enjoying massive chart success with releases by such acts as Rick Astley, Bananarama and Dead or Alive. 'Shattered Glass' was one of two tracks Branigan cut with the Stock Aitken Waterman team. When the radio was playing it to death, you couldn't buy it in the shops вЂ“ a ludicrous situation.' The song had originally been produced by Mitchell and Coe for Scottish singer Ellie Warren in 1980 Warren recalls 'all the radio stations and media were totally behind 'Shattered Glass', but the record wasn't serviced properly.

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