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Inside the Fire (album)

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Released
  
1984

Genre
  
Pop

Inside the Fire (1984)
  
Fire Me Back (1990)

Recorded
  
Record Plant

Label
  
A&M

Producer
  
Tom Dowd for Tom Dowd Productions, Inc

Inside the Fire is a 1984 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label. This would prove to be Rita's last studio album with her longtime label, A&M Records. The album features the top 15 adult contemporary hit "Something Said Love" and the Richard Kerr/Will Jennings ballad "I Can't Afford That Feeling Anymore". The album has yet to be released on CD.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Hit Me On The Loveside" (J.C. Crowley, Marcy Levy) — 4:07
  2. "Do You Believe in Love" (Graham Lyle) — 3:34
  3. "I Can't Afford That Feeling Anymore" (Richard Kerr, Will Jennings) — 3:49
  4. "Games" (Vince Melamed, Andrea Farber) — 3:30
  5. "Wishing Star" (Vince Melamed, Chris Thompson) — 3:40

Side two

  1. "I'm Comin' Home" (Charlie Williams, Danny Chauncey, David Brown) — 3:55
  2. "Something Said Love" (Wood Newton, Jerry Michael) — 3:36
  3. "Love From Tokyo" (Kenji Sawada, Yoshiko Miura, Ralph F. McCarthy) — 3:42
  4. "Survivor" (Priscilla Coolidge, Mary Unobsky, Danny Ironstone) — 3:29
  5. "Love is Muddy Water" (Jim Hunt, Arnold Goldstein) — 3:46

Personnel

  • Rita Coolidge - vocals
  • Rick Vito, Snuffy Walden, Steve Farris, Josh Leo - guitar
  • Kurtis Teel - bass
  • Mike Utley - keyboards, piano
  • Bill Payne - synthesizer
  • Thom Mooney - drums
  • Paulinho da Costa - percussion
  • George Wesly Perry - bass on "Something Said Love"
  • Chet McCracken - drums on "Something Said Love"
  • Mitchell Froom - electric flute on "Games", synthesizer on "Wishing Star"
  • Jimmy "Z" Zavala - harmonica on "I'm Comin' Home"
  • Vince Melamed - synthesizer on "Love From Tokyo"
  • Albhy Galuten - strings arranged and conducted on "I Can't Afford That Feeling Anymore" and "Something Said Love"
  • Arnold McCuller, David Lasley, JoAnn Harris, Sherlie Matthews, Ce Ce Bullard, Judi Brown, Carmen Grillo, Bonnie Bramlett - background vocals

    • References

    Inside the Fire (album) Wikipedia
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