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Planet Claire
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Planet Claire
| cover = Planet Claire single.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = The B-52's
| album = The B-52's
| B-side = Downtown
| released = July 6, 1979
| recorded = 19781979
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 4:35
| label =
| writer =
| producer = Chris Blackwell
| prev_title = Rock Lobster
| prev_year = 1978
| next_title = Dance This Mess Around
| next_year = 1979
| misc =
}}
Based on Duane Eddy's 1959 "Peter Gunn" instrumental guitar hit, "'Planet Claire'" is the second single released by The B-52's from their self-titled debut album. The single was their second to chart anywhere, at no. 43 in Australia and no. 24 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart, along with album tracks "Rock Lobster" and "Dance This Mess Around".
In 2011, band member Kate Pierson expressed her dissatisfaction with the way mixing engineer Robert Ash mixed her vocals with the Farfisa organ on the studio version, overlaying excessive audio effects to make her vocals "sound like a synthesizer", and stated that she prefers the rawer sound of live performances where her vocals are more upfront.
'Cash Box' said that "bongos, Ventures-influenced guitar work and morse code blips are calling all pop, AOR audiences to dance to this humorous followup to 'Rock Lobster.'"
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Category:1979 songs
Category:1980 singles
Category:The B-52's songs
Category:Island Records singles
Category:Songs written by Fred Schneider
Category:Songs written by Keith Strickland
Category:Warner Records singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Chris Blackwell
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