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Released
  
July 1988

Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988)
  
True Love (1991)

Release date
  
July 1988

Length
  
50:12

Artist
  
Pat Benatar

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

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Recorded
  
Spyder's Soul Kitchen, Ocean Way Recording ("All Fired Up"), Los Angeles, California, 1987

Producer
  
Peter Coleman and Neil Giraldo Keith Forsey and Neil Giraldo ("All Fired Up")

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock, Rock and roll

Similar
  
Pat Benatar albums, Rock music albums

Pat benatar wide awake in dreamland complete album


Wide Awake in Dreamland is Pat Benatar's seventh studio album, and her eighth album overall, released in 1988. After a string of successful albums, this was her last rock-oriented album of the 1980s, before she would go on to try a blues-based sound with True Love in 1991.

Contents

The album's lead single, "All Fired Up", peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 25 on the Cash Box Top 100. It was nominated for a Grammy Award but did not win.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA and eventually sold approximately 700,000 copies in the United States.

Background and writing

The album was primarily recorded at Neil Giraldo's studio, with most of the songwriting by Giraldo and longtime drummer Myron Grombacher. Four of the tracks are also co-written with Benatar (who is credited as Pat Giraldo). One of the two songs from other songwriters was "Cerebral Man" written by Tully Winfield and well-known stick player Don Schiff. In an interview from 2002, Schiff recalled how this track was added to the album: "Tully Winfield and I demoed songs at what was becoming a very popular studio in LA (Woodcliff Studio)... we had just recorded "Cerebral Man". If I recall correctly the demo just had Tully's voice, stick and drums. Peter Coleman was producing Pat's next album for Chrysalis and happened to be the next session in and heard the tune. He asked if he could take the song to Pat Benatar and hopefully put it on her next album. Her camp liked it and they did a wonderful job with the song. I thought Tully and I would get a few more songs on that album as they liked the style of our song, but at the last minute she decided to go back to her more familiar rock style, leaving our song the only one stylistically like it on the album."

Musicians

  • Pat Benatar – vocals
  • Neil Giraldo – guitars
  • Myron Grombacher – drums
  • Fernando Saunders – bass
  • Frank Linx – bass, background vocals
  • Charles Giordano, Kevin Savigar – keyboards
  • Bo Castro – percussion
  • Nick Gilder – background vocals on "Don't Walk Away", "Cool Zero"
  • Carmen Twillie, Phyllis St. James, Maxine Water – background vocals on "Lift 'em on Up"

    • Production

  • Peter Coleman, Neil Giraldo – producers, mixing
  • Frank Linx – assistant engineer
  • Steve Ford, Gil Morales – mixing assistants
  • George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
    • "Let's Stay Together"
  • Neil Giraldo – producer
  • Ed Thacker – mixing
  • Jim Dineen – mixing assistant
    • "All Fired Up"
  • Keith Forsey – producer
  • Paul Lini – engineer
  • Clif Norrell – assistant engineer
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing at The Hit Factory, New York
  • Tim Leitner – mixing assistant

    • Songs

    1All Fired Up4:30
    2One Love5:14
    3Let's Stay Together4:59

    References

    Wide Awake in Dreamland Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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