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

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.

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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Contents

Smokie the girl can t help it

Personnel

Songs

References