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The Montreux Album

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Released
  
October 1978

Length
  
34:32

Release date
  
October 1978

Label
  
Rak Records

Recorded
  
6–24 February 1978

Artist
  
Smokie

Producer
  
Mike Chapman

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Studio
  
Mountain Studios (Montreux, Switzerland)

The Montreux Album (1978)
  
The Other Side of the Road (1979)

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop rock, Glam rock, Country rock

Similar
  
Smokie albums, Rock music albums

Smokie the montreux album 1978


The Montreux Album is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Smokie, released in 1978. Recorded primarily at Mountain Studios in Montreux (hence the album's title) between 6 and 24 February 1978, it was the band's last album to be made in partnership with Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman.

Contents

Smokie the girl can t help it


Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's 1978 and 2016 liner notes.

Smokie
  • Chris Norman – lead vocals, backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboards, synthesizers
  • Alan Silson – lead vocals (on "You Took Me by Surprise), backing vocals, acoustic and electric lead guitars
  • Terry Uttley – lead vocals (on "Light Up My Life"), backing vocals, bass guitar
  • Pete Spencer – lead vocals (on "Petesey's Song"), backing vocals, drums and percussion, tenor sax (on "No More Letters")
    • Technical personnel
  • Mike Chapman – production
  • Pete Coleman – engineering
  • Ian Cooper – mixing (at Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California, in March 1978) and mastering (at Utopia Studios, London, England)
  • MM Sound Digital Mastering Studios – 2016 remastering
  • Richard Gray – sleeve design
  • Gered Mankowitz – art direction and photography

    • Songs

    1The Girl Can't Help It3:48
    2Power of Love1:57
    3No More Letters3:30

    References

    The Montreux Album Wikipedia
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