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Nikki Webster Nicole Marie Webster (born 30 April 1987) is an Australian pop singer. She is best known for her role in performing at both the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics opening ceremony, and the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics closing ceremony as well for he ...

, released on 21 June 2004 by BMG/Gotham Records. It is an album which found Webster working with a different style of music, a range of

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was added. It peaked at number forty-six on the

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. Webster provided her cover versions of various tracks, which include, "

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and " Be Mine" by Wild Orchid. The front cover was shot at Webster's secondary school, The McDonald College, and includes several of her ballerina friends in the shot. They included Katherine Harper, the then

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, with whom Nikki had worked with as part of the Student Prefect team to help raise a record amount for the Exodus Foundation. Other Dancers used include Serena Chalker (Prefect and Dux, 2004), Amanda Platcher, Sara Czarnotta (Vice Captain, 2004), Samantha Jennings and Ann Conolly. The American comedy film, ''

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'' (2016), included Webster's version of "ABC". However, it was not released with the official soundtrack for the film.

Track listing

#" Let's Dance" (Axel Breitung,

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) – 3:09 #"

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" ( Shannon Roberts, George Merrill) – 4:45 #"Zero Gravity" (

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, Sean Hosein, Dane Deviller) – 3:21 #"Don't Give Up" (

Chong Lim Chong Voon Lim (born 1958 in Ipoh, Malaysia) is a Malaysian-born Australian-based musical director, keyboardist, producer, and session musician. Lim attended St. Michael's Institution for secondary education. He relocated to Melbourne, Australi ...

, Nikki Webster) – 3:45 #"Be Mine" (Hosein, Deviller,

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, Renee Sandstrom,

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) – 3:25 #"This Is How We Do It" (Dennis, Michael Harwood, Nick Keynes, Jon O'Mahoney) – 3:00 #" Walking on Sunshine" ( Kimberley Raw) – 4:04

Personnel

*Guitars (all tracks except "Let's Dance") – Stuart Fraser *Guitars on "Let's Dance" and "Walking on Sunshine" – Brett Garsed *Keyboards, programming and percussion – Chong Lim *Harmonica and saxophone on "My Boy Lollipop" – Steve Williams *All backing vocals – Nikki Nichols *Additional backing vocals on "Dancing in the Street" – Lindsay Field *Additional vocals on "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" – Mark Williams *Tap dancing on "Let's Dance" –

and Kaylie Yee *Vocal director on "Let's Dance", "Dancing in the Street", "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "Walking on Sunshine" – Danielle Gaha *Cover shoot for "Let's Dance" – Katherine Harper, Amanda Platcher, Serena Chalker, Sara Czarnotta, Samantha Jennings, Ann Conolly

Charts

References

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