"Sing Your Life"
April/May 1991

 

Sing Your Life
That's Entertainment

UK 7" [HMV POP1626]
UK CSS [HMV TCPOP1626]
Australia 7" [EMI 2584-7]
Australia CSS [EMI 2584-4]

 

Sing Your Life
That's Entertainment
The Loop

UK CD5 [HMV CDPOP1626]
UK 12" [HMV 12POP1626]
Holland CD5 [EMI 20 4259-2]
Japan CD5 [Toshiba EMI TOCP-6842]
USA CD5 [Sire/Reprise 9 40084-2]
USA 12" [Sire/Reprise 9 40084-0]
USA CMS [Sire/Reprise 9 40084-4]

 

Additional information:
The UK 7" is available with the contractually-specified-by-Morrissey paper label, but some copies have a silver injection moulded label.

The USA cd-single was originally released on digipack and later re-released in a jewel case.

The Australian 7" single didn't have a picture sleeve, it was slipped inside a generic green EMI bag.

The Japanese video-single is covered here.

 

Artwork information:
Morrissey, photographed by Pennie Smith. A different photo from the same session is found on the back.

 

Etchings on vinyl:
None.

 

Additional release date information:
UK: 1 April 1991
USA: 22 May 1991

 

Chart peak information:
UK: 33
USA: (didn't chart, but reached #10 on Modern Rock Chart)

 

Promotion:
UK: This single was the third of five consecutive ones promoted with the help of a retro-style promo 7" (POPDJ1626; view on the left). One-track promo videos were produced by Capitol and by In Phase. B-side "The Loop" was included on a various artists cassette titled "The Parlophone Tape" given away with a 1991 issue of Select magazine.

Japan: Promo cds have a promo sticker on the back tray inlay and 'Sample not for sale' etched around the cd's inner ring.

USA: Promotion was mostly done via gold-stamped copies of the 12" and one-track promo videos (Warner, C86062). "Sing Your Life" was included on volume VI of Reprise's various artists promo/sampler series titled "Follow Our Trax" (PRO-CD-4635). The video was also included on a various artists Warner video sampler (C89296). It was also included on volume 99A of the various artists promo series Telegenics and the June 1991 issue of the Rockamerica promo videos series .