Love and Dancing is a remix album

Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...

 released by the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band The Human League

The Human League

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

 in 1982. It was released under the name "The League Unlimited Orchestra" as a nod to Barry White

Barry White

Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...

's disco-era Love Unlimited Orchestra. The album was principally the idea and work of producer Martin Rushent

Martin Rushent

Martin Rushent was an English record producer, best known for his work with The Human League, The Stranglers and The Buzzcocks.- Early life :Rushent was born on 11 July 1948 in Enfield, Middlesex. His father was a car salesman...

 and contained remixes of many of the songs from their multi-platinum selling album Dare

Dare (album)

Dare is the third studio album from British synthpop band The Human League.The album was recorded between March and September 1981 and first released in the UK on 20 October 1981, then subsequently in the U.S...

, along with a version of the track "Hard Times", which had originally been the B-side of the single "Love Action". It was conceived and released to take advantage of the unexpected huge success of Dare and was also designed to buy the Human League time to work on new material.

Rushent described working on Love and Dancing during an interview in 2007:
The album reached number three in the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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 and was later certified Platinum by the BPI

British Phonographic Industry

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In 2002, the album Dare and Love and Dancing were remastered and re-issued together on one CD

Compact Disc

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Track listing

1. "Hard Times" (Callis, Oakey, Wright)
2. "Love Action (I Believe in Love)
   Love Action (I Believe in Love)
   "Love Action " is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League, released as a single in the UK in July 1981. It peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart, the band's first Top 10 success....
   
   " (Burden, Oakey)
3. "Don't You Want Me
   Don't You Want Me
   "Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group Human League, released from their album: Dare on 27 November 1981.It is the band's best known and most commercially successful recording to date, and was the Christmas number one in the UK, in 1981, where it sold over 1,400,000 copies,...
   
   " (Callis, Oakey, Wright)
4. "Things That Dreams Are Made Of
   Things That Dreams Are Made Of
   "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" is a song by the English synthpop group The Human League. It was originally recorded for the Dare album of 1981. It was remixed, remastered and released as a dance EP single in 2008; partly to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Human League, 26th...
   
   " (Oakey, Wright)
5. "Do or Die" (Burden, Oakey)
6. "Seconds" (Callis, Oakey, Wright)
7. "Open Your Heart
   Open Your Heart (Human League song)
   "Open Your Heart" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It was released as a single in the UK in October 1981 and peaked at number six in the UK Singles Chart. It was written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey and keyboard player Jo Callis...
   
   " (Callis, Oakey)
8. "The Sound of the Crowd
   The Sound of the Crowd
   "The Sound Of The Crowd" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It became the band's commercial breakthrough, reaching #12 on the UK singles chart in May 1981....
   
   " (Burden, Oakey)