True Blue 45

The True Blue 45 and single artwork.

Ah, the True Blue 45. Mesmerizing. Blue vinyl (!!!) with a b-side of Ain't No Big Deal - originally set as her first single, the song that really got her signed to Sire Records. First properly produced by Mark Kamins then produced by Reggie Lucas for the Madonna album but discarded last minute and then replaced with Holiday. It had been previously released a few years earlier on a rare Warner B-Sides Album called Revenge of the Killer B's prior to the release of Like of Virgin. If you're interested, I posted about it HERE.

Anyway, Ain't No Big Deal got its proper release here on the 45 and the masses got to hear the very Motown sounding song, a perfect companion piece to True Blue - which hearkened the Sixties girl groups. True Blue was the third single off Madonna's True Blue album and written and produced by Madonna and Stephen Bray. This glorious piece of retro sounding pop candy reached number 3 on the US Billboard charts and the top ten around the globe.

Revenge of the Killer B's - Ain't No Big Deal. For me, it was.

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It was 1984 and all I had was Madonna/Madonna. When I came across Revenge of the Killer B's, sequel to Attack of the Killer B's, from Warner Bros. Records and saw there was a new Madonna song from the first album sessions, excitement didn't even describe it. The song was Ain't No Big Deal, and this was almost 3 years before it was released as a B-side on the True Blue single. A song the fans had always heard of in early interviews - the song that really got her signed and was slated to be her first single but was scrapped at the last minute. It was that high pitched Motown voice, it was that great Reggie Lucas production, it was just great.