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Café Racers

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Released
  
October 1983

Genre
  
Pop rock

Label
  
EMI

Recorded
  
1983

Length
  
43:10

Producer
  
Keith Olsen

Café Racers is the eighth studio album by Kim Carnes, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music).

The album spawned three chart singles in the United States, "Invisible Hands", "You Make My Heart Beat Faster (And That's All That Matters)", and "I Pretend" which charted on various Billboard charts. "The Universal Song" was also released as a single in West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.

The song "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is" was included on the chart-topping, six times Platinum Flashdance soundtrack which received a Grammy Award for Best Album Of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture at 26th Annual Grammy Awards. It was also released as a single in Germany, Netherlands, Spain and France.

Kim's album, meanwhile, was a commercial failure, running out of steam at #97 on the Billboard album chart.

Personnel

  • Bill Cuomo – keyboards (1,2,4,5,7,8,9,10), synthesizer (3), keyboard solo (6)
  • Brian Fairweather – background vocals (5,6,7), Simmons (6)
  • Chas Sandford – guitar (1,4,5), background vocals (1,4,5)
  • Craig Krampf – drums (8)
  • Daniel Moore – background vocals (10)
  • Dave Ellingson – background vocal (10)
  • David Paich – piano (3), keyboard bass (6)
  • Denny Carmassi – drums (1-7,9,10)
  • Dennis Sager – engineer
  • Duane Hitchings – keyboards (10)
  • Greg Fulginiti – mastering
  • Jackie Sallow – sleeve photography
  • Jerry Peterson – saxophone (3,4,7)
  • John Waite – background vocals (8)
  • Keith Olsen – percussion (3), engineer, producer
  • Kevin Chalfant – background vocals (7)
  • Kim Carnes – lead vocals, background vocals (3,6,7,9,10)
  • Kosh – art direction & design
  • Mark Andes – bass (2,3,6,7,9)
  • Martin Page – background vocals (5,6,7), Roland Jupiter 8 (6)
  • Michael Brokaw (Kragen & Co.) – direction
  • Robert Blakeman – cover photography
  • Ron Larson – art direction & design
  • Steve Lukather – guitar solo (1), guitar (2,3,6,7,9)
  • Steve Porcaro – keyboards (2)
  • Susan McGonigle – production coordinator
  • Waddy Wachtel – guitar (2,3,10), background vocals (2)

    • References

    Café Racers Wikipedia
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