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What a Crying Shame

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Released
  
February 1, 1994

Artist
  
The Mavericks

Producer
  
Don Cook

Length
  
39:44

Release date
  
1 February 1994

Label
  
MCA Records

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What a Crying Shame (1994)
  
Music for All Occasions (1995)

Genres
  
Country music, Neotraditional country, Tejano music, Western swing

Similar
  
The Mavericks albums, Country music albums

What a Crying Shame is the third studio album by the American country music band The Mavericks. The album was released on February 1, 1994, by MCA Nashville. It includes the singles "What a Crying Shame", "O What a Thrill", "There Goes My Heart", "I Should Have Been True" and "All That Heaven Will Allow". In order, these singles reached numbers 25, 18, 20, 30 and 49 on the Billboard Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) chart. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA and 2× Platinum by the CRIA.

Contents

"All That Heaven Will Allow" was previously recorded by Bruce Springsteen on his album Tunnel of Love, and "O What a Thrill" by James House on his first album, James House.

Track listing

  1. "There Goes My Heart" (Kostas, Raul Malo) - 3:16
  2. "What a Crying Shame" (Kostas, Malo) - 3:50
  3. "Pretend" (Kostas, Malo) - 3:37
  4. "I Should Have Been True" (Stan Lynch, Malo) - 5:14
  5. "The Things You Said to Me" (Al Anderson, Malo) - 3:31
  6. "Just a Memory" (Kostas, Malo) - 2:24
  7. "All That Heaven Will Allow" (Bruce Springsteen) - 3:34
  8. "Neon Blue" (Pete Anderson, Kostas) - 3:56
  9. "O What a Thrill" (Jesse Winchester) - 3:13
  10. "Ain't Found Nobody" (Harlan Howard, Kostas) - 3:18
  11. "The Losing Side of Me" (Malo) - 3:51

Production

  • Produced by Don Cook
  • Mixed and engineered by Mike Bradley

    • The Mavericks

  • Paul Deakin – drums
  • Raul Malo – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Robert Reynolds – bass guitar
  • Nick Kane – (electric guitar) appears on the album cover, and is credited as a member of the band, but joined the group after the album was recorded and does not play on this record.

    • Additional musicians

  • Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
  • Dennis Burnside – string arrangements
  • Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
  • Rob Hajacos – fiddle
  • James House – backing vocals on "O What a Thrill"
  • John Barlow Jarvis – piano, organ
  • Stan Lynch – cabasa, claves, congas, tambourine, triangle
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar
  • John Wesley Ryles – backing vocals
  • Joy Lynn White – backing vocals on "Just a Memory"
  • Dennis Wilson – backing vocals
  • Glenn Worf – bass guitar, double bass
  • Trisha Yearwood – backing vocals on "Neon Blue"
  • Nashville String Machine – strings

    • Songs

    1There Goes My Heart3:21
    2What a Crying Shame3:51
    3Pretend3:42

    References

    What a Crying Shame Wikipedia
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