Velvet (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Velvet


Caption =
Artist = a-ha
from Album =
Minor Earth Major Sky
Released = September 2000
Format = CD
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Alternative rock
New Wave
Length = 4:01
Label = WEA Records
Writer = Lauren Waaktaar-Savoy, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
Producer = Boogieman, Roland Spremberg
Certification =
Chart position =
* #1 (NORWAY)
* #1 (RUSSIA)
* #18 (LATVIA)
* #48 (GERMANY)
Last single = "Minor Earth Major Sky"
(2000)
This single = "Velvet"
(2000)
Next single = "The Sun Never Shone That Day"
(2000)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption =Alternative cover
Type =single


Lower caption =

"Velvet" is a song by Savoy, a band fronted by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy from their first album, "Mary Is Coming". Savoy's version was released as a single in the US, but got very little airplay. a-ha's version of "Velvet" replaced Savoy's guitars with sitars. This song, the third single from "Minor Earth Major Sky", was released to radio stations in Germany (and in other European countries such as Sweden, Switzerland and Holland) in September 2000 and was released to German record stores on 6th November (one week later in other parts of Europe). Originally, "The Sun Never Shone That Day" was to be released in Norway instead of "Velvet", but it was later decided that "Velvet" would also be released in Norway.

Track listing

# "Velvet" (Radio Version)
# "Velvet" (De-Phazz Mix)
# "Velvet" (Millennia Nova Max)
# "Velvet" (New York City Mix)
# "Velvet" (Alabaster Mix)
# "Velvet" (Stockholm Mix)
# "Velvet" (Album Version)
# "Velvet" Bonus Track: Enhanced Video (director's cut - licking version)

*Tracks 1 & 7 mixed by Niven Garland
*Track 2 mixed by Pit Baumgartner
*Track 3 mixed by Millennia Nova
*Track 4 mixed by John Agnello
*Track 5 mixed by Hakan Wollgaard
*Track 6 mixed by Palaar Suna
*Video Director Harald Zwart

Velvet Video

The director of this video was Harald Zwart, who also directs Hollywood movies. Zwart, a fellow Norwegian, chose this song to be a part of his new movie at the time, "One Night at McCool's" - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n2LxAbt0gw link] .
The so-called "licking version" of this video appears on the international DVD release of "One Night at McCool's." The "licking version" got its name because a second version of the video features a kiss instead of the lick from the older nurse seen near the end of the video.

*World Sales:300.000