12/09/2018

Rex Smith "Rock And Roll Dream 1976 - 1983" (2017) -AOR / Soft Rock-



Label : Sony Music Entertainment / HNE Recordings Ltd


États-Unis Disc One: Rex

01 - Trouble (Lou Vandora & Rex Smith)
02 - Ten Seconds Of Love (Lars Hanson & Rex Smith)
03 - Feeling Better (Rex Smith & Lou Vandora)
04 - Stay With Me (J Ragovoy & G Weiss)
05 - Call Her 'Easy' (Rex Smith & M. Cunningham)
06 - Dead End Kids (Rex Smith & Lars Hanson)
07 - I Can't Explain (Pete Townsend)
08 - Rock And Roll Dream (Lou Vandora & Rex Smith)
09 - Violent Playground (Rex Smith)

Rex is :
Orville Davis : Bass Guitar
Lars Hanson : Guitar & Background vocals
Mike Rarri : Drums & Percussion
Rex Smith : Vocals
Lou Van Dora : Guitar & Background vocals

Produced by Eddie Leonetti For Pilot Records, Inc.
Recorded at Record Plant, New York
Engineer : Lee De Carlo
Assistant Engineers : Jay Krugman & Rod O'Brien


Disc 2: Where Do We Go From Here

01 - Where Do We Go From Here? (Rex Smith, Lars Hanson & Lou Van Dora)
02 - Do Me (Rex Smith, Lars Hanson & Lou Van Dora)
03 - Burn Your Bridges (Rex Smith)
04 - 7 Come 11 (Rex Smith, Lars Hanson & Lou Van Dora)
05 - You're Never Too Old To Rock & Roll (Rex Smith & Lars Hanson)
06 - Chains On My Heart (Rex Smith & Lou Van Dora)
07 - You Don't Want Love (Rex Smith & Marc Tobaly)
08 - Stealin' The Night Away (Rex Smith & Lou Van Dora)
09 - Running Wild (Rex Smith & Lars Hanson)

Bonus Track

10 - You're Never Too Old To Rock & Roll (Mono Version) (Rex Smith & Lars Hanson)

Produced by Eddie Leonetti for Contemporary Communication Corp.
Engineer : Lee DeCarlo
Assistant Engineers : Grey Russell, Gerry Gabinelli & Joe Barbaria
Recorded & Mixed at Record Plant Studios, NYC & A&R Studios, NYC
Mastered at The Cutting Room, NYC
Engineer : Joe Brescio
Executive Producers :  David Krebs & Steve Leber 

Lars Hanson : Guitars, Keyboards & Background vocals
Orville Davis : Bass
Rex Smith : Lead vocals
Lou Van Dora : Guitars, Slide Guitar & Background vocals
Mike Ratti : Drums & Percussion


Disc 3: Sooner Or Later

01 - You Take My Breath Away** (From The Movie 'Sooner Or Later') (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)
02 - Sooner Or Later** (From The Movie 'Sooner Or Later') (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)
03 - Simply Jessie** (From The Movie 'Sooner Or Later') (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)
04 - Better Than It's Ever Been Before** (From The Movie 'Sooner Or Later') (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)
05 - Love Street* (Dominic Bugatti & Frank Musker)
06 - Never Gonna Give You Up* (Greg Guidry & Sandra Guidry)
07 - Sway* (Dominic Bugatti & Frank Musker)
08 - Oh What A Night For Romance* (Russ Ballard)
09 - Ain't That Peculiar* (William 'Smokey' Robinson, Warren Moore, Robert Rogers & Marvin Tarplin)
10 - If You Think You Know How To Love Me* (Michael Chapman & Nicholas Chinn)

Bonus Tracks :

11 - Simply Jessie (Mono Version) (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)
12 - You Take My Breath Away** (Mono Version) (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)

*Produced by Charles Calello
**Produced by Charles Calello & Stephen Lawrence

"You Take My Breath Away", "Sooner Or Later", "Simply Jessie" & "Better Than It's Ever Been Before"
Drums Richard Crooks
Percussion : Jimmy Maelen
Piano : Paul Shaffer
Guitar Joe Caro, Jeff Mironov & Elliot Randall
Bass : Neil Jason
Synthesizer : Rock Ferrante

"Love Street", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Sway" & "Ain't That Peculiar"
Drums Rick Marotta
Percussion : Jimmy Maelen
Piano : Paul Shaffer
Guitar Lance Quinn, Lars Hanson, Jeff Layton & Mark Cunningham
Bass : Neil Jason
Synthesizer : Rock Ferrante

"If You Think You Know How To Love Me" & "Oh What A Night For Romance"
Drums : Barry Lazarowitz
Percussion : Jimmy Maelen
Piano : Barry Miles
Guitar : Lars Hanson & Lance Quinn
Bass : Will Lee
Synthesizer : Rock Ferrante

"Oh What A Night For Romance"
Sax Solo Lou Marini

Gene Orloff & The New York Strings (Joseph Malignaggi, Jesse Levy, Jonathan Abramowitz, Lewis Eley, Paul Winter, Guy Lumia, Loann Montes)
Copyist : Wedo Marasco
Session Coordinator : Jim Bondillo
Background vocals : Desmond Child And Rouge

Recorded at House of Music - "Love Street", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Sway", "Oh What A Night For Romance", "Ain't That Peculiar" & "If You Think You Know How To Love Me"
Engineered by Jeffrey Kawalek
Recorded at The Hit Factory - "You Take My Breath Away", "Sooner Or Later", "Simply Jessie" & "Better Than It's Ever Been Before"
Engineered by Bill Radice
All Songs Mixed at Mediasound with Harvey Goldberg


Disc 4: Forever

01 - Forever (Rex Smith, Michael Smith & Emmitt Siniard)
02 - Tonight (Peppy Castro & Barry Brandt)
03 - Everytime I See You (Emmitt Siniard & Rex Smith)
04 - Without You (Peppy Castro & Gretchen Parsons)
05 - To You (Peppy Castro & Gretchen Parsons)
06 - Saturday Night (Eric Troyer & D. Eugene Brown)
07 - Let's Make A Memory (Emmitt Siniard & Michael Smith)
08 - I Don't Want Your Love (Out Of My Life) (Rex Smith, Michael Smith & Emmitt Siniard)
09 - Superhero (Peppy Castro & Doug Katsaros)
10 - All Or Nothing (Felix Cavaliere)

Produced by Charles Calello
Recorded at Mediasound Studios, NY

Musicians :
Unknow


Disc 5: Everlasting Love

01 - Love Will Always Make You Cry (Andrew Piercy & Peter Banks)
02 - Still Thinking Of You (Michael Bolotin & Patrick Henderson)
03 - Everlasting Love (Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden)
04 - Rock Me Slowly (Jeffrey Phillips)
05 - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted (Jimmy Ray Dean, Paul Riser & William Weatherspoon)
06 - Remember The Love Songs (Richard Parker, Bob Whiteside & Christine Wold)
07 - Don't Go Believin' (Roger LaVoie)
08 - Oh Girl (Eugene Record)

Produced by Rick Chertoff

Musicians :
Drums : Richard Crooks
Bass : Neil Jason
Keyboards Ralph Schuckett
Synthesizers : Ed Walsh & Peter Wood
Guitars : Sid McGinnis, Jeff Layton, Eric Bazilian & David Spinozza
Saxophone Lou Marini & Greg Scott
Percussion : Leonard Gibbs Jr.
Background vocals : Ellison Chase, Eric Troyer, Rory Dodd, Mark Berger, Ullanda McCullough, Maeretha Stewart & Krystal Davis


Disc 6: Camouflage

01 - Camouflage (Rex Smith) 
02 - New Romeo (Alexander Call)
03 - In The Heat Of The Night (John David)
04 - Don't Talk (Terry Britten & Sue Shifren)
05 - Get It Right (Rex Smith & Brad Whitford)
06 - Love With A Perfect Stranger (Rex Smith & Michael Smith)
07 - Real Love (Mark Goldenberg)
08 - Tears (Vincent Cusano & Adam Mitchell)
09 - Two Hearts (Rex Smith & Steve Humphrys)
10 - Roll Me (Rex Smith & Peter Wolf)

Produced by Ron Nevison
Recorded by Ron Nevison & Mike Clink at The Record Plant, Los Angeles & Sausalito, CA

Players :
Peter Wolf : Keyboards
Brad Whitford : Guitar
Lou Van Dora : Guitar
Peter Maunu : Additional Guitar
Steve Humphrys : Bass
Jason Scheff Additional Bass
Mike Ratti : Drums
Steve Price : Percussion

Singers :
Rex Smith
Donny Baldwin
Brett Bloomfield
Linda Ronstadt on "Real Love"


A&R for HNE Recordings : Hugh Gimour with Special Thanks to Steve Hammonds
Remastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham