''Amy Holland'' is singer

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's self-titled debut album. The album was released on LP record in 1980, and was produced by Amy's future husband Michael McDonald. One of the songs on the album "How Do I Survive" (a song originally sung by The Paul Bliss Band) became a big hit and made it to the Top 30 chart. Amy Holland would often perform "How Do I Survive" live on music TV shows such as

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(a Japanese music show) and Young Oh! Oh!. Those live performances of the song can be found on

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. Holland mostly recorded some song covers for this album, with one of them being

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's 1928 jazz-standard ''Forgetting You'' The success of the song ''How Do I Survive'' helped Amy earn a Grammy Nomination for Best New Artist in 1981, but she did not win the award however. Some of the songs on the album have been written by Michael McDonald such as "Here In The Light" and "Show Me the Way Home". "How Do I Survive" was a hit peaking at #22 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Three years later Amy would release another studio album called ''

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Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians *

– main artist, lead vocals, and backing vocals on tracks A1 and A3 to B3 *Hadley Hockensmith – guitar on tracks A1 to A5 and B3 to B5 *

Patrick Henderson Reverend Patrick Henderson is a gospel keyboard player, songwriter and producer. He has written several songs in collaboration with Michael McDonald, playing on a number of his and the Doobie Brothers albums. Henderson has long associations with ...

– piano on tracks A1, A2, and A5 to B4, and electric piano on tracks A3, A4, and B5 * Michael McDonald - backing vocals on tracks A1, A3, A4, and B1, piano on tracks A3 and B5, electric piano on tracks A1, A2, and A5 to B4, and clavinet on "I'm Wondering" *Gary Grant – trumpet on tracks: A1, A5, and B4 *Ollie Mitchell – trumpet on tracks A1, A5, and B4 *

Plas Johnson Plas John Johnson Jr. (born July 21, 1931) is an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most widely known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme". He also performs on alto and baritone sa ...

– saxophone on tracks: A1, A5, and B4 * Tom Scott – saxophone on tracks A1, A5, B3, and B4, and lyricon on "Stars" * Dick Hyde – trombone on tracks A1, A5, and B4 *John Bay Pierce – bass on tracks A1, A3, A4, B3, and B5 *

Mike Baird Michael Bruce Baird (born 1 April 1968) is an Australian investment banker and former politician who was the 44th Premier of New South Wales, the Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Western Sydney, and the Leader of the New South W ...

– drums on tracks A1 to A5 and B3 to B5 * Lenny Castro – percussion on tracks A1, A3, A4, B1, and B2 *

Wendy Waldman Wendy Waldman (born November 29, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Biography Early life Waldman (born Wendy Steiner) grew up in the Los Angeles area. She was raised in a musical environment: her father Fred Steiner ...

– backing vocals on "How Do I Survive" *Chet McCracken – vibraphone on tracks A2 and A4 *Donald Boyette – bass on tracks A2 and B4 *Charity and Linda McCrary – backing vocals on "Strengthen My Love" *

Cornelius Bumpus Cornelius Bumpus (May 7, 1945 – February 3, 2004) was an American woodwind, brass and keyboard player and vocalist from Santa Cruz, California. Biography Bumpus began his musical career playing alto saxophone at ten for his school band, and by ...

– saxophone on "Strengthen My Love" * Bill Payne – synthesizer on tracks A3 and A4 *Nick DeCaro – strings on tracks A3 to A5 and B5 *Bill Martin – backing vocals on tracks A3, B2, and B3 *Maureen MacDonald – backing vocals on "Here in the Light" *

Norton Buffalo Phillip Jackson (September 28, 1951 – October 30, 2009), best known as Norton Buffalo, was an American singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer, bandleader and recording artist who was a versatile proponent of ...

– harmonica on tracks A5 and B1 *Michael Porcaro – bass on "Don't Kid Yourself" *Jim Petteway – guitar on tracks B1 and B2 *Trey Thompson – bass on tracks B1 and B2 *

Michael Hossack Michael Joseph Hossack (October 17, 1946 – March 12, 2012) was an American drummer for the rock band The Doobie Brothers. Biography Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Hossack was known as "Big Mike" to his former band members. He started playin ...

– drums on tracks B1 and B2 *

John McFee John McFee (born September 9, 1950, Santa Cruz, California) is an American singing, singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist, and long-time member of The Doobie Brothers. Biography Some of McFee's early and no ...

– steel guitar on tracks B2 and B3, and acoustic guitar on "Looking for Love" *Brian Mann – accordion on "Forgetting You" ;Production *Michael McDonald - producer

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1980 debut albums Amy Holland albums Capitol Records albums