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Precious Time (album)

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Released
  
July 6, 1981

Precious Time (1981)
  
Get Nervous (1982)

Release date
  
6 July 1981

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock

Length
  
35:30

Artist
  
Pat Benatar

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Producers
  
Keith Olsen, Pat Benatar

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Studio
  
Sound City Studios and Goodnight LA Studios at Los Angeles, California

Similar
  
Get Nervous, Crimes of Passion, In the Heat of the Night, Wide Awake in Dreamland, Seven the Hard Way

Precious Time is the third studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on July 6, 1981. It peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, chart and produced the top 20 hit and lead single "Fire and Ice"; the song that would later win the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1982 and reached No. 17 on the U.S. Pop chart and No. 2 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart.

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The album's second single "Promises in the Dark" reached No. 38 on the U.S. Pop chart and No. 16 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart.

Precious Time was also Benatar's first album to chart in the UK, reaching No. 30.

Precious Time was reissued and remastered on Capitol Records in 2006.

The band

  • Pat Benatar – lead and backing vocals
  • Neil Giraldo – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Scott St. Clair Sheets – rhythm guitar
  • Roger Capps – bass guitar
  • Myron Grombacher – drums
  • Additional personnel

  • Alan Pasqua – piano
  • Gary Herbig, Joel Peskin, Tom Scott, Larry Williams – saxophones on track 7
  • Keith Olsen – tambourine on track 2
  • Production

  • Produced by Keith Olsen and Neil Giraldo
  • Engineered by Keith Olsen and Chris Minto at Sound City & Goodnight LA
  • Mastered by Greg Fulginiti at Artisan Sound Recorders
  • Art direction and design by Ria Lewerke-Shapiro
  • Songs

    1Promises in the Dark4:49
    2Fire & Ice3:21
    3Just Like Me3:31

    References

    Precious Time (album) Wikipedia