It's Your Move (song)

"Your Move (song)" redirects here. For other performances under this name, see Your Move.

"It's Your Move"
Song by Doug Parkinson
from the album Heartbeat to Heartbeat
Released	28 March 1983
Genre	Soft rock
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Steve Kipner Terry Shaddick
Producer(s)	Tommy Emmanuel

"It's Your Move" is a song by Doug Parkinson, released in March 1983 on the album Heartbeat to Heartbeat.[1]

America version

"Your Move"
Single by America
from the album Your Move
B-side	"Love's Worn Out Again"
Released	June 1983
Recorded	1983
Studio	Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre	Soft rock
Length	3:19
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Steve Kipner Terry Shaddick

A few months after the song's initial release, it was released by the band America, retitled "Your Move", from their album of the same name.[2] It was released as a 7" single in Italy on Capitol Records.[3]

Diana Ross version

"It's Your Move"
Song by Diana Ross
from the album Swept Away
Released	13 September 1984[4][5]
Genre	Synth-pop
Length	3:34
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Steve Kipner Terry Shaddick

In 1984, Diana Ross covered the song. It appears on the album Swept Away.[6] This version was later sampled in the 2011 vaporwave song "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー" ("Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing") by Macintosh Plus,[7] where it was slowed down and chopped and screwed, with the pitch changed. It became an Internet meme worldwide.[8]

References

1. "Doug Parkinson Heartbeat To Heartbeat-MusicStack". Musicstack.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
2. "Your Move - America - Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
3. 45cat
4. "It's Your Move by Diana Ross on". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
5. "AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
6. "It's Your Move-Diana Ross-Topic on YouTube". YouTube.com. 2015-03-11. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
7. "Samples of It's Your Move by Diana Ross". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
8. "How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet". Esquire. August 18, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2021.