"Everyone Says 'Hi' is a song recorded by English singer

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for his twenty-second studio album '' Heathen'' (2002). It was written by Bowie, and produced by British duo Brian Rawling and Gary Miller, with vocals produced by the singer himself with

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. The song was released on 16 September 2002, by ISO and Columbia Records. "Everyone Says 'Hi' peaked at number 20 on the

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and also reached number 83 in the

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Background

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, Bowie's guitarist throughout the 1990s and close creative partner up until a few years before ''Heathen'' was released, said that "Everyone Says 'Hi was the only song Bowie made after his departure that he heard "because someone told me that David wrote that for me. That made me cry." Four of the six B-sides to this 3 CD set are re-recordings of some of Bowie's less familiar 1960s material that were intended for their own album release back in 2000, whilst "Safe" and "Wood Jackson" were new compositions, the former originally written but dropped from the soundtrack to ''

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Track listing

UK version 1

# "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Radio edit)" - 3:29 # " Safe" - 4:43 # " Wood Jackson" - 4:48

UK version 2

# "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Radio edit)" - 3:29 # "When the Boys Come Marching Home" - 4:46 # " Shadow Man" - 4:46

UK version 3

# "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Radio edit)" - 3:29 # "

Baby Loves That Way "Baby Loves That Way" is a song written by David Bowie in 1965 and released as the B-side of single " You've Got a Habit of Leaving" under the name Davy Jones with his band at the time, the Lower Third, who were uncredited. Bowie later remade th ...

" - 4:44 # "

You've Got a Habit of Leaving "You've Got a Habit of Leaving" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, recorded and released as a single on 20 August 1965 through Parlophone. Released under the name Davy Jones, it featured his band at the time, the Lower Third, w ...

" - 4:51

European version 1

# "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Radio edit)" - 3:29 # " Safe" - 4:43 # "

" - 4:44 # " Sunday (Tony Visconti mix)" - 4:56

European version 2

# "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Radio edit)" - 3:29 # " Safe" - 4:43

12" promo version

# "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Metro remix)" # "Everyone Says 'Hi' (Metro remix - Radio edit)" # " I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship (Deepsky's Space Cowboy remix)"

Charts

Production credits

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** Brian Rawling ** Gary Miller ** David Bowie **

* Musicians: **David Bowie: Vocals, Keyboards, Synths, Guitars, Sax, Stylophone, Drums **

: Bass guitar, Guitars, Recorders, B-vox, String arrangements **

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: Drums, Loop programming, Percussion **

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: Guitars, Guitar loops, Omnichord **

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: Piano and Hammond organ. **

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: Guitar ** Gary Miller: Programming and guitar ** Dave Clayton: Keyboards on "Everyone Says 'Hi' **The Scorchio Quartet ***Greg Kitzis: 1st violin ***Meg Okura: 2nd violin ***Martha Mooke: Viola ***Mary Wooten: Cello

Other releases

* The "Metro mix - radio edit" was released on two various artists charity albums for War Child called ''Peace Songs'' and ''Hope''. * The "Metro mix" was also featured in the video game ''

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''. * The song, as covered by Fyfe Monroe, features in the closing of the final episode of the TV series '' Defiance''.

References

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