Rex Smith "You Take My Breath Away" (1979) -Soft Rock-

Label : CBS, Inc.

 A

01 - You Take My Breath Away (From The Movie 'Sooner Or Later') (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)

B

01 - Sooner Or Later (From The Movie 'Sooner Or Later') (Stephen Lawrence & Bruce Hart)

From the Album 'Sooner Or Later' (1979)

Produced by Charles Calello & Stephen Lawrence

Drums : Richard Crooks
Percussion : Jimmy Maelen
Piano : Paul Shaffer
Guitar : Joe Caro, Jeff Mironov & Elliot Randall
Bass : Neil Jason
Synthesizer : Rock Ferrante

Rex Smith "Forever" (1979) -Soft Rock-

Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side 1

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, To You! (Say Goodbye To You)** (Peppy Castro & Gretchen Parsons)

Side 2

01 - Saturday Night* (Eric Troyer & D. Eugene Brown)
02 - Let's Make A Memory*** (Emmitt Siniard & Michael Smith)
03 - I Don't Want Your Love (Out Of My Life)*** (Rex Smith, Michael Smith & Emmitt Siniard)
04 - Superhero** (Peppy Castro & Doug Katsaros)
05 - All Or Nothing* (Felix Cavaliere)


Produced by Charles Calello for Calello-Lang Productions / Contemporary Communications Corporation

Executive Producers : Steve Leber & David Krebs
Recorded at Mediasound Studios, NY

Engineers : Bill Stein, Don Wershba

Rhythm Tracks Recorded by Harvey Goldberg

*Arranged by Charlie Calello

**Arranged by Charlie Calello, Peppy Castro & Doug Katsaros

***Arranged by Charlie Calello & Doug Katsaros

What A Band!
Bass : Willie Weeks

Drums : Andy Newmark

Keyboards : Doug Katsaros, Peppy Castro

Guitars : Jeff Baxter, Hugh McCracken

Strings : Gene Orloff & The New York Strings

Percussion : Victoria

Sax Solo ("Everytime I See You") : Mark Rivera

Additional Guitars :

Peppy Castro - "Superhero", "Tonight", "Without You"

Bob Kulick - "Tonight" (Including Guitar Solo)

Elliott Randall - "Forever" (Including Guitar Solo), "Saturday Nigt"

George E. Smith - "Superhero"

Background vocals :

"Forever" : Billy & Bobby Alessi, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros

"Tonight" : Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros

"Everytime I See You" : Michael Smith, Emmitt Siniard

"Without You" : Mitch Weissman, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros
"To You, To You! (Say Goodbye To You)" : Billy Alessi, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros, Robert Brissette

"Saturday Night" : Billy & Bobby Alessi, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros
"Let's Make A Memory" : Linda November, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros
"I Don't Want Your Love (Out Of My Life)" : Michael Smith, Emmitt Siniard
"All Or Nothing" : Billy & Bobby Alessi, Kathe Green, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros

Rachel Sweet "Fool Around: The Best Of" (1992) -Pop Rock / Soft Rock / Country Rock / Westcoast Rock-

Label : Rhino Records

 01 - B-A-B-Y (Isaac Hayes & David Porter)

02 - I Go To Pieces (Dick Shannon)

03 - Who Does Lisa Like? (Liam Sternberg)

04 - Wildwood Saloon (Liam Sternberg)

05 - Stay Awhile (Mike Hawker & Ivor Raymonde)

06 - Suspended Animation (Liam Sternberg)

07 - Sad Song (Mark Middler & Peter Mason)

08 - It's So Different Here (Liam Sternberg)

09 - Cuckoo Clock (Liam Sternberg)

10 - Pin A Medal On Mary (Will Birch & John Wicks)

11 - Girl With A Synthesizer* (Liam Sternberg)

12 - Stranger In The House (Elvis Costello)

13 - Just My Style* (Liam Sternberg)

14 - I'll Watch The News* (Liam Sternberg)

15 - Be Stiff* (Gerald Casale & Bob Lewis)

16 - Fool's Gold (Graham Parker)

17 - Spellbound* (Jimmie O'Neill)

18 - Everlasting Love (Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden)

19 - Shadows Of The Night* (D.L. Byron & Rachel Sweet)

20 - Hairspray (Rachel Sweet, Anthony Battaglia & Willa Bassen)

*CD Bonus Tracks

Compilation : Gary Stewart

Research : David McLees, Gary Peterson

Remastering : Bill Inglott & Ken Perry

Duet with Rex Smith on "Everlasting Love"

Sources

A - From The Album 'Fool Around', Stiff (UK) 

#SEEZ 12, 10/78

Produced by Liam Sternberg

Original UK 

Mixes are used for this collection

B - From The Album 'Fool Around', Stiff / Columbia (US)

#36101, 7/79

Produced by Dave Mackay & Barrie Guard

"Girl With A Synthesizer" & "Just My Style" were omitted from the domestic release & these two tracks were added

C - From The Promotional Album 'Stiff Sounds, Can't Start Dancin'' (Various Artists), Stiff (UK) 

#SOUNDS 3, 10/78

Produced by Liam Sternberg

D - From The 12" EP 'Be Stiff Tour' (Various Artists), Stiff (UK) 

#ODD 2, Early 1979

Produced by Bazza

E - From The Album 'Protect The Innocent', Stiff / Columbia (US)

#36337, 3/80, Stiff (UK)

#SEEZ 18, 4/80

Produced by Martin Rushent & Alan Winstanley

F -  From The Album '... And Then He Kissed Me', Columbia (US)

#37077, 8/81

CBS (UK) #85006, 10/81

Produced by Rick Chertoff

G - From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album 'Hairspray', MCA (US) #6228, 2/88

Produced by Kenny Vance

Rex Smith "Everlasting Love" (1981) -Soft Rock-

Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side 1

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)

Side 2

01 - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted (Jimmy Ray Dean, Paul Riser & William Weatherspoon)
02 - Remember The Love Songs (Richard Parker, Bob Whiteside & Christine Wold)
03 - Don't Go Believin' (Roger LaVoie)
04 - Oh Girl (Eugene Record)


Produced by Rick Chertoff

Engineer / Associate Producer : William Wittman

Recorded & Mixed at The Record Plant, New York

Assistant Engineers : Steve Marcantonio, Eric Korte, John Agnello, James Ball

Rhythm Arrangements : Rick Chertoff, David Wolfert

*String Arrangements : Bert deCoteaux

Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, N.Y.

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

With Rachel Sweet on "Everlasting Love"

Rex Smith "Camouflage" (1983) -Westcoast Rock-

  Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side 1

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)

Side  2

01 - Love With A Perfect Stranger (Rex Smith & Michael Smith)
02 - Real Love (Mark Goldenberg)
03 - Tears (Vincent Cusano & Adam Mitchell)
04 - Two Hearts (Rex Smith & Steve Humphrys)
05 - Roll Me (Rex Smith & Peter Wolf)


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 :
Linda Ronstadt on "Real Love"

Donny Baldwin
Brett Bloomfield

Rex Smith

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

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

Label : Sony Music Entertainment / HNE Recordings Ltd

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

Rex "Where Do We Go From Here" (1977) -AOR-

Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side I

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)

Side II

01 - You're Never Too Old To Rock & Roll (Rex Smith & Lars Hanson)
02 - Chains On My Heart (Rex Smith & Lou Van Dora)
03 - You Don't Want Love (Rex Smith & Marc Tobaly)
04 - Stealin' The Night Away (Rex Smith & Lou Van Dora)
05 - Running Wild (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

Rex "Rex" (1976) -AOR-

Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side 1

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)

Side 2

01 - Call Her 'Easy' (Rex Smith & M. Cunningham)
02 - Dead End Kids (Rex Smith & Lars Hanson)
03 - I Can't Explain (Pete Townsend)
04 - Rock And Roll Dream (Lou Vandora & Rex Smith)
05 - 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

Rex Smith "Sooner Or Later" (1979) -Soft Rock-

Label : CBS, Inc. 

 Side 1

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)

Side 2

01 - Never Gonna Give You Up* (Greg Guidry & Sandra Guidry)
02 - Sway* (Dominic Bugatti & Frank Musker)
03 - Oh What A Night For Romance* (Russ Ballard)
04 - Ain't That Peculiar* (William 'Smokey' Robinson, Warren Moore, Robert Rogers & Marvin Tarplin)
05 - If You Think You Know How To Love Me* (Michael Chapman & Nicholas Chinn)


*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