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Dancing Undercover

1986 studio album by Ratt

Dancing Undercover is the third studio album by American glam metal band Ratt, released in 1986. The album was produced by Beau Hill and contains the hit single/video "Dance", which appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Down for the Count". Two other videos were made, "Body Talk", which was used on the soundtrack for Eddie Murphy's film, The Golden Child, and "Slip of the Lip". It charted at No. 26 on the Billboard 200 chart and at No. 14 on Rolling Stone's Album Chart. The album went platinum.

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Ratt's opening acts on the tour in support of the album included Poison, Cinderella, Cheap Trick,[7] Queensrÿche and Vinnie Vincent Invasion.

Track listing

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Early pressings of the CD had "Slip of the Lip" and "Body Talk" errantly mastered into one track as track 4.

Personnel

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Production
  • Beau Hill – producer, engineer
  • Michael O'Reilly, Jim Faraci – engineers
  • Jimmy Hoyson – assistant engineer
  • Stephen Benben – digital editing and sequencing
  • Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York City

Charts

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