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American English (album)

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Released
  
1987 (1987)

Artist
  
Wax

Genre
  
Rock

Length
  
41:35

Release date
  
1987

Label
  
Rdeg

Recorded
  
March 2, 1987 (1987-03-02) - May 20, 1987 (1987-05-20), Westside Studios, London

American English (1987)
  
100,000 in Fresh Notes (1989)

Producers
  
Christopher Neil, Andrew Gold, Graham Gouldman

Similar
  
Magnetic Heaven, Continue, A Hundred Thousand in Fresh

Wax american english


American English is a 1987 album by Wax, and includes their hit single "Bridge to Your Heart". The album cover, designed by Storm Thorgerson, shows objects that all refer to wax.

Contents

Track listing

All songs were written by Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "American English" – 4:25
  2. "In Some Other World" – 4:45
  3. "Ready or Not" – 3:31
  4. "Call It Destiny" – 4:03
  5. "Bridge to Your Heart" – 4:14

Side two

  1. "Share the Glory" (Paul Bliss, Phil Palmer) – 3:56
  2. "Alright Tonight" – 4:14
  3. "The Promise" – 3:14
  4. "Heaven in Her Bed" – 4:36
  5. "Bug in the Machine" – 4:21

Personnel

  • Andrew Gold – vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, guitar on track 10, drums and programming, production on tracks 4, 9, and 10
  • Graham Gouldman – bass guitar, backing vocals, guitar on tracks 1–5, and 7–9, vocals on track 10, production on tracks 4, 9, and 10
  • Christopher Neil – production on tracks 1–3, and 5–8, backing vocals
  • Phil Palmer – guitar on track 6
  • Adrian Lee – keyboards
  • Wix – keyboards
  • Paul Bliss - keyboards and programming on track 6
  • Peter Van Hooke – drums and programming
  • Paul Carrack – backing vocals
  • Tessa Niles – backing vocals
  • Jackie Rawe – backing vocals
  • Lorna Wright – voice on track 1
  • Raissa Danilou – voice on track 1
  • Kyoko Ono – voice on track 1
  • Ruth Cuenca – voice on track 1
  • Simon Hurrell – engineer, recording engineer on tracks 1–9, mixing engineer on tracks 1–3, and 5–10
  • Peter Jones – recording engineer on track 10, assistant recording engineer on tracks 1–9, assistant mixing engineer
  • Ian Cooper – Mastering at the Town House, London
  • Storm Thorgerson – design
  • Christopher Bissell – photography

    • Songs

    1American English4:28
    2In Some Other World4:45
    3Ready or Not3:35

    References

    American English (album) Wikipedia
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