China Girl (album version)
~ Recording by David Bowie
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| Official | |||||||||
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 4XO 517093 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | SO-17093 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 0C 062-400 165, AML 3029 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CP35-3034 |
| 1.1 | China Girl (long version) | 5:32 | David Bowie | China Girl | David Bowie | Single |
| EMI America | 7809 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (‘Manufactured in West Germany’ in booklet) | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | EYS-81580 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| RCA Music Service (RCA’s Music Club) | R 153730 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | SO 517093 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (‘Manufactured by Polygram in Hanover, West Germany’ in booklet) | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 1C 064-400 165 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album | EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | 10C 072-400165 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:32 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | MFSL 1-083 |
| 1.7 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Classic MTV: Class of 1983 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 71834 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | VJCP-25210 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 8 40982 2, CDVUS 96 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | CDVIR(WF)293 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 8 40982 2 |
| 1.3 | China Girl | 5:29 | David Bowie | The No. 1 Rock Ballads Album | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram TV (a division of PolyGram Record Operations Ltd.) | 535 941-2 |
| 1.9 | China Girl | 5:29 | David Bowie | The Wedding Singer: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 9 46840-2 |
| 1.9 | China Girl | 5:29 | David Bowie | The Wedding Singer: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica “Ronnie” Dashev, and Frederick DeMann), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 9362468402 |
| 1.9 | China Girl | 5:29 | David Bowie | The Wedding Singer: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica “Ronnie” Dashev, and Frederick DeMann) | 9 46840-2 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | 7243 4 93094 2 5 |
| 1.9 | China Girl | 5:29 | David Bowie | The Wedding Singer: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica “Ronnie” Dashev, and Frederick DeMann), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | CDW 46840 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (clear tray) | David Bowie | Album | EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | 521 8960, 7243 521896 0 1 | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (rights society: BEL/BIEM; S.I.A.E.) | David Bowie | Album | EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | 521 8960, 7243 521896 0 1 | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 7243 521896 0 1 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | 218967-PRL2 |
| 2.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | 07243 543319 2 3, 543 3192 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | 07243 543319 2 3, 543 3192 |
| 3.13 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Sound + Vision | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | 07243 594512 2 0, 07243 594513 2 9, 07243 594514 2 8, 07243 594515 2 7 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| 東芝EMI 株式会社 (record company, do not use as release label – check obi, back or disc for imprint! Ended 2007‐06‐29) | TOCP-70154 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI Music Japan Inc. (2007‐06‐30 to 2013‐04‐01 – record company, do NOT USE as release label – check the back cover or CD surface for the imprint) | TOCP-95054 |
| 1.9 | China Girl | 5:29 | David Bowie | The Wedding Singer: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica “Ronnie” Dashev, and Frederick DeMann) | |
| 3.13 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Sound + Vision (fatbox in cardboard slipcase) | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | DBSAVX 1 |
| 3.13 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Sound + Vision (fatbox in cardboard slipcase) | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | WPCR-16096, WPCR-16097, WPCR-16098, WPCR-16099 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien (1983–1988) | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien (1983–1988) | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien 1983–1988 | David Bowie | Album + Compilation |
| Parlophone | 0190295693534, DBX4 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (2018 remaster) | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album | Parlophone | 0190295511197 | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:34 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance (2018 remaster) | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Parlophone | DB 83881 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:32 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| Pathé Marconi EMI (record company, renamed EMI Pathé Marconi in 1986) | 2C 070-400165, PM 263 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:33 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 7 46002 2 |
| 1.2 | China Girl | 5:32 | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Album |
| EMI America | CDP 546002 |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.13 | China Girl | 5:31 | David Bowie | Then You Wouldn't Have to Ask Me (disc 2: Electric) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
Relationships
| assistant engineer: | Dave Greenberg (US engineer Sonopod/Boomtown) |
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| engineer and mixer: | Bob Clearmountain |
| producer: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) Nile Rodgers |
| assistant mixer: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) Nile Rodgers |
| bass: | Carmine Rojas (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| drums (drum set): | Omar Hakim (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| guitar: | Nile Rodgers (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) Stevie Ray Vaughan (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| keyboard: | Rob Sabino (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| percussion: | Sammy Figueroa (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| background vocals: | Frank Simms (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) George Simms (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) David Spinner (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| lead vocals: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) (in 1983) |
| recorded at: | Power Station Studios (Power Station at BerkleeNYC, fka Power Station 1977–1996, then Avatar Studios 1996–2017) in Hell's Kitchen, New York, New York, United States (from 1982-12 until 1983-01) |
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| recording of: | China Girl (from 1983-01-04 until 1983-01-20) |
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Related works
China Girl
| writer: | David Bowie (English singer‐songwriter) Iggy Pop |
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| publisher: | BMG VM Music France BMG VM Music Ltd. Bug Music (music publishing) Éditer à Paris EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) EMI Music Publishing France EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) EMI Virgin Music Ltd. (do not use this as a release label!) Fleur Music Ltd. (publisher) Fujipacific Music, Inc. James Osterberg Music Jones Music (publishers associated with David Bowie) Mainman Saag (New York) RZO Music Ltd Tintoretto Music Virgin Music (publisher and label, only for releases with Virgin MUSIC logo) Watanabe Music Publishing CM division EMI Music Publishing Japan Ltd., Sony Division (until 2021-06-30) ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., EMI Overseas Division, sub‐publisher for non‐Japanese works) (from 2021-07-01 to present) |
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| later parody versions: | China Girl (Literal Video Version) Tim’s China World |
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