''Annie Haslam'' is the third solo album by

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vocalist

Annie Haslam Annie Haslam (born 8 June 1947) is an English vocalist, songwriter and painter. She is best known as the lead singer of progressive rock band Renaissance since 1971, and for her long and diverse solo singing career. She has a five-octave vocal r ...

, released in 1989. The album consisted mostly of original material and included covers of

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", which had been a UK number 4 hit in 1983, and

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's 1978 UK number 3 hit "

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Track listing

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)'' - 3:35 # "The Angels Cry" ''(

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)'' - 4:25 # "When a Heart Finds Another" ''(

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, Ina Wolf,

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)'' - 4:43 # "Let It Be Me" ''(Neil Lockwood)'' - 4:31 # "She's the Light" ''(

Larry Fast Lawrence Roger Fast (born December 10, 1951) is an American synthesizer player and composer. He is best known for his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums (''Synergy'') and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, inclu ...

)'' - 2:17 # "Celestine" ''(Haslam, Fast)'' - 4:51 # "Further from Fantasy" ''(

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, John DeNicola)'' - 4:19 # "

" ''(Billie Rae Calvin)'' - 4:32 # "Wildest Dreams" ''(Peter Bliss,

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)'' - 4:56 # "One More Arrow" ''(

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, Val Hoebel)'' - 4:08 # "One Love" ''(Haslam, Bliss)'' - 4:04

Personnel

Musicians

- lead and background vocals, vocal arrangements *

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s and

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s *

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

and

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

on track 2 *Mark Lampariello -

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s on tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 *Peter Bliss - background vocals, guitars and sequencer programming on track 9 and 11 * David Rose - violin on tracks 2 and 11 *Raphael Rudd -

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

and

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on track 5, 6, and 11 *

Mel Collins Melvyn Desmond Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician. Collins has played in several progressive rock groups, having been a member of King Crimson on two occasions (the first from ...

- saxophone on track 4 * Joe Franco - percussion and additional drums *Robert Matarazzo - background vocals on track 4 *

John DeNicola John DeNicola (born October 4, 1955) is an American songwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the song " (I've Had) The Time of My Life", for which he won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as receiving a Grammy ...

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sequencer programming on track 7

Production

*Larry Fast - producer, engineer on tracks 1, 4 and 10 *Denny Bridges - engineer and mixing *Nelson Ayres - engineer on tracks 1, 4 and 10, assistant engineer *Mike Weisinger, Jeff Toone, Joe Gelchion, Richard Barraclough - assistant engineers *Vlado Meller - mastering *

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- executive producer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Annie Haslam (Album) 1989 albums Epic Records albums Virgin Records albums