''Electric Youth'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter

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, released on January 24, 1989, by

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. It is the highest-charting album of Gibson's career, staying at the top of the US ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart for five weeks, and reaching number 8 on the

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Composition

As with her debut album, '' Out of the Blue,'' all tracks were written by Gibson, and she single-handedly produced six of the tracks. She was also given half of the production credits on one track alongside

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who produced the other four tracks. The album, like her first, contains mainly bubblegum-pop songs, though other, more mature styles are touched upon.

Singles

''Electric Youth'' spawned four singles, the first being "

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," which became her second No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and stayed there for three weeks. " Electric Youth", the album's title track, just missed the Top 10, reaching No. 11. "

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" followed, ending its run at No. 17, and " We Could Be Together" charted at No. 71.

Commercial success

In the US, the album was certified 2× Platinum by the

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and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Gibson promoted the album with "The Electric Youth World Tour" in 1989. In parallel with the album, she created an Electric Youth perfume under

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, and various makeup essentials for young girls through Natural Wonder Cosmetics, one of her sponsors at the time, distributed throughout the U.S. The album also inspired an original stage musical of the same name which premiered at the Starlight Dinner Theatre (formerly Mark Two Dinner Theatre) in

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wrote the book and Gibson co-produced.

Reissues

The album was included in the 2017 box set '' We Could Be Together'', with seven remixes as bonus tracks. A special four-disc

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edition was released by Cherry Red Records on November 26, 2021. This release includes two remix CDs and a

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containing the album's four music videos and the live video ''Live Around the World''.

Track listing

All tracks are written by

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(

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), except where indicated; all tracks are produced by Deborah Gibson, except where indicated.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications and sales

Personnel

Musicians *Debbie Gibson - lead and backing vocals, piano, keyboards, additional keyboards, drum programming *

- keyboards, drum programming, piano (tracks 1–3, 5, 7–8, 10–11) *Greg Savino - keyboards (track 6) *Leslie Ming - hi hat (tracks 1, 3, 8–9) *

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- percussion (tracks 1–5, 7–11) *Adam Tese - percussion, saxophone (track 6) *Lou Appel - drums (tracks 5–6) *Ira Siegel - acoustic guitar, electric guitar (tracks 1, 4–5, 7–11) *Tommy Williams - electric guitar, acoustic guitar (tracks 2–3, 6) * Kirk Powers Burkhardt - bass (tracks 2-3-5-6) *Bob Osman - cello (track 8) *Jeff Smith - saxophone (tracks 1, 8) *Roger Rosenberg - flute solo (track 5) *Ed Palermo - tenor saxophone (Cadillac Horns) (tracks 8, 10) *Bud Burridge - trumpet (Cadillac Horns) (tracks 8, 10) *

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- trombone (Cadillac Horns) (tracks 8, 10) *Carrie Johnson - backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 7–8, 10–11) * Libby Johnson - backing vocals (tracks 1, 7, 10–11) *Keeth Stewart - backing vocals (tracks 1, 9–10) *Tim Lawless - backing vocals (tracks 8, 11) *

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- backing vocals (track 8) *Linda Moran - backing vocals (track 10) Production *Debbie Gibson - arranger, mixing (tracks 1–7, 9–10) *Fred Zarr - arranger, mixing (tracks 1–3, 5, 7–8, 10–11) *Don Feinberg - recording engineer *Phil Castellano - recording engineer, mix engineer, additional engineering, mixing (tracks 2–3, 5, 8, 11) *Bill Scheniman - recording engineer (track 6) *Mario Salvatti - additional engineering (track 6) *Rich Travali - additional engineering (track 9) *Matt Malles - assistant engineer *Bill Esses - assistant engineer, additional engineering, programming engineer (tracks 1–10) *Jim Goatley - assistant engineer, assistant mix engineer (tracks 2, 5–6, 8) *

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- mastering (

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)

References

External links

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