Dancing Undercover

Dancing Undercover is the third studio album by American glam metal band Ratt, released in 1986. The album was produced by Beau Hill and contains the hit single/video "Dance", which appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Down for the Count". Two other videos were made: "Body Talk", which was used on the soundtrack for the Eddie Murphy film The Golden Child, and "Slip of the Lip". It charted at No. 26 on the Billboard 200 chart and at No. 14 on Rolling Stone's Album Chart. The album went platinum.

Dancing Undercover
Studio album by Ratt
Released	September 24, 1986 (1986-09-24)[1]
Studio	Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Glam metal[2]
Length	34:55
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Beau Hill
Ratt chronology
Invasion of Your Privacy (1985) Dancing Undercover (1986) Reach for the Sky (1988)
Singles from Dancing Undercover
"Dance" Released: October 1986 [3] "Body Talk" Released: January 1987 (Japan) [4]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[6]

Ratt's opening acts on the tour in support of the album included Poison, Cinderella, Cheap Trick,^[7] Queensrÿche, and Vinnie Vincent Invasion.

Release

The second single, "Body Talk", was released in January 1987 in Japan. The song was written by Pearcy, Croucier, and DeMartini. Ratt's guitarist Warren DeMartini had the song's opening riffs for years. However, no one was able to develop it into a song. Under a very tight deadline (one day to be exact), Ratt bassist Juan Croucier stepped in. He wrote all the vocal melodies and lyrics, adding additional chord progressions to the one riff that had been around for years. The song title was apparently conceived of by Ratt producer Beau Hill or vocalist Stephen Pearcy. It was featured on the compilation album Ratt & Roll 81-91. It was also used as a soundtrack for Eddie Murphy's film The Golden Child. The video was added on MTV in late '86, while "Dance" was still in heavy rotation.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dance"	Robbin Crosby, Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini, Beau Hill	4:17
2.	"One Good Lover"	Crosby, Pearcy	3:06
3.	"Drive Me Crazy"	Crosby, Pearcy, DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer	3:42
4.	"Slip of the Lip"	DeMartini, Juan Croucier, Pearcy	3:15
5.	"Body Talk"	DeMartini, Croucier, Pearcy	3:44

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Looking for Love"	Crosby, Croucier, Pearcy	3:09
7.	"7th Avenue"	DeMartini, Pearcy, Croucier	3:11
8.	"It Doesn't Matter"	Croucier, Pearcy	3:08
9.	"Take a Chance"	DeMartini, Croucier, Pearcy	4:00
10.	"Enough Is Enough"	DeMartini, Crosby, Croucier, Pearcy	3:23

Early pressings of the CD had "Slip of the Lip" and "Body Talk" errantly mastered into one track as track 4.

Personnel

Ratt

• Stephen Pearcy – lead vocals
• Robbin Crosby – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Warren DeMartini – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Juan Croucier – bass, backing vocals
• Bobby Blotzer – drums, percussion

Production

• Beau Hill – producer, engineer
• Michael O'Reilly, Jim Faraci – engineers
• Jimmy Hoyson – assistant engineer
• Stephen Benben – digital editing and sequencing
• Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York City

Charts

Chart (1986–87)	Peak position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[8]	49
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[9]	17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[10]	23
UK Albums (OCC)[11]	51
US Billboard 200[12]	26

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[13]	Gold	50,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[13]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[14]	Platinum	1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.