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Dream Master (album)

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Released
  
1979

Release date
  
1979

Genre
  
Pop music

Artist
  
Billie Hughes

Label
  
Epic Records

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Recorded
  
A&M Studios, Hollywood; Sounds Interchange Studios, Canada; Total Sound West, Vancouver; British Columbia, Cherokee Studios, LA

Producer
  
Henry Lewy, Billie Hughes, Dale Jacobs

Dream Master is an album by Billie Hughes aka Bill Hughes. Hughes began his solo recording career in 1978 upon signing with Epic Records. “Dream Master” is Hughes' first solo album. Dream Master was produced by Henry Lewy, featuring top session musicians in Los Angeles including Jeff Porcaro, Russ Kunkel, Victor Feldman, Wilton Felder, Mike Melvoin, among other notables. All of the songs are written by Billie Hughes. "Dream Master" was released on vinyl by Epic Records in 1979. It was released in Japan in 1982 when Billie Hughes moved to Japan for four months to perform in Osaka. “Dream Master” was re-released in Japan in CD format during the ‘90’s, after the success of Hughes’ second solo album, “Welcome To The Edge”, and again in 2001.

“Quiet Moment’” from “Dream Master”, was included on “Shine”, Mono Presents 70’s Shine American Music Masterpiece Collection, released by Sony Music direct (Japan) in 2003, track #8, alongside tracks by Eric Anderson, Tony Kosinec, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Mason, Ned Doheny, Fools Gold, Cecilio & Kapono, Les Dudek, Simon & Garfunkel, Livingston Taylor, Bob Dylan, Dane Donohue, Willie Nelson, Eric Gale, and James Taylor.

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from liner notes of “ Dream Master (album)

(Note: the numbers below refer to the songs in the order of the tracking listing)

  • Produced by – Henry Lewy
  • Except the song “Only Love”: Produced by – Billie Hughes, the song “Catch Me Smilin’”: Produced by – Dale Jacobs
  • Engineered by – Carlton Lee
  • Remixes Produced & Engineered by – Gary Lyons
  • Assisted by – John Weaver
  • Mastered by – Joe Gastwirt and Jo Hansch
  • Strings, Woodwinds & Horns Arranged & Conducted by – Ian Freebairn-Smith
  • Piano by – Mike Melvoin(1,2,9,10), Randy Kumano(4), Lincoln Mayorga(5), Doug Louie(8)
  • Electric Piano by – Mike Melvoin(3), Dale Jacobs(8)
  • Bass by – Wilton Felder(1,2,3,6,7,10), Allen Soberman(4), Joel Wade(8), Michael Porcaro(9)
  • Drums by – Russ Kunkel(1,), Jeffrey Porcaro(3,6,9,10), John Dell(4), Rick Shlosser(7), Kat Hendrihse(8)
  • Electric Guitar by – Will McFarland(1,6), Tony Peluso(2), Mitch Holder(2,3,9,10), Jay Graydon(2,7), Terry Frewer(8), Brett Wade(8), Jose Feliciano(9)
  • Acoustic Guitar by – Billie Hughes(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10), Oscar Castro-Neves(7)
  • Percussion by – Gary Lyons(1,6), Steve Foreman(2,5,9,10), Victor Feldman(3,7)
  • Background Vocals by – Bill Hughes(3,5,7,8,9), Renee Armand(3,10), Laura Creamer(3), Clark Burroughs(3,7), Colleen Peterson(5,10), Terry Frewer(8), Brett Wade(8), Joanie Taylor(8), Jose Feliciano(9), Ventta Fields(9), Sherlie Matthews(9), Paulette Brown(9), Ian Freebairn-Smith(10)

    • References

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