''Dumb Waiters'' is the second

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by English pop band

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. It was released on Rialto Records in the UK in 1980. The album peaked #40 at UK chart and includes the

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", UK #5,

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#18,

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#18; "If It's Alright With You Baby" UK #56; "Dumb Waiters" and "Rover's Return". ''Dumb Waiters'' was re-issued on CD by Edsel Records in 1999 but is currently out of print.

Track listing

Side A: #"Silent Running" (Warren) - 3:05 #"Love Ain't Too Far Away" (Davis) - 3:29 #"Perfect Hostess" (Davis) - 3:21 #"Drawn and Quartered" (Warren) - 3:20 #"

" (Warren) - 4:24 (N.B. 1999 CD edition includes alternate version) Side B: #"Intimate" (Davis) - 3:08 #"It's No Good Unless You Love Me" (Warren) - 3:24 #"Dumb Waiters" (Warren) - 2:42 #"If It's Alright with You Baby" (Warren) - 4:06 #"Rover's Return" (Davis) - 3:34

Charts

Personnel

* James Warren -

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* Stuart Gordon -

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* Andy Davis - electric guitar, keyboards,

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, background vocals * Phil Harrison - keyboards, percussion

Additional personnel

* David Lord - percussion * Stephen Paine - programming * Jo Mullet - background vocals * Ali Cohn - background vocals

Production

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- producers * David Lord - producer,

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* Nick Heath - direction * Tim Heath - direction *

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- cover painting * Tim Simmons -

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* Nick Heath, George Rowbottom -

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* Julian Balme - art direction * Recorded at Crescent Studios,

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from October 1979 to March 1980.

Release history

* 1980 LP Rialto Records TENOR 104 (UK) * 1980 LP

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290 (US) * 1999 CD Edsel Records EDCD 622

Single releases

''Format: 7" unless otherwise noted'' * "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" / "Dirty Postcards" (Rialto TREB 115, April 1980) * "If It's Alright with You Baby" / "Love Ain't Too Far Away" (TREB 118, July 1980) * "If It's Alright with You Baby" (Remix) - 3:46 / "Love Ain't Too Far Away" (12" TREBL 118, July 1980) * "Dumb Waiters" / "Perfect Hostess" (TREB 122, October 1980) * "Rovers Return" / "Wish You a Merry Christmas" (non-album track) (Warren/Harrison) - 2:53 (TREB 131, December 1980)

References

{{Authority control 1980 albums The Korgis albums Asylum Records albums