''Miss America'' is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter

Mary Margaret O'Hara Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and composer. She is best known for the album ''Miss America'', released in 1988. She released two albums and an EP under her own name, and remains active as a live performer, as a con ...

, released in 1988 by

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. It is O'Hara's only full-length studio album released to date. All of her other releases have been EPs,

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s or collaborations with other artists.

Recording

Following the disbandment of her band Go Deo Chorus the previous year, Mary Margaret O'Hara signed a recording contract with British label

in 1984 on the strength of

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material of hers that had been sent to the label by a friend. Virgin allowed O'Hara complete creative control over her debut album, but insisted that she record the album with an established producer, despite her desire to produce or co-produce the album herself.

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, of fellow Virgin act

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, and

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were hired to produce, and recording sessions at

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, Wales took place in November 1984. However, Partridge and Leckie, having found themselves at odds with O'Hara and her backing band over the course of recording, were ultimately fired from the project; in their place,

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was hired by Virgin to oversee the sessions. 14 songs were recorded by the end of the year. O'Hara and her band then returned to Canada, where additional

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and

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ing was undertaken in

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, at Phase One Studios. Meanwhile, Virgin, as O'Hara later recalled, had begun to express apprehensions about the record altogether. Dissatisfied with the finished material, the label refused to release the album. Work on the album was resumed and completed in 1988, after

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contacted Virgin expressing interest in assisting O'Hara with its production. At the Toronto studio Comfort Sound, O'Hara and Brook reworked songs from the original Rockfield sessions for final release, with six being remixed and four ("Year in Song", "Dear Darling", "My Friends Have", and "Help Me Lift You Up") being re-recorded. Another track ("Body's in Trouble") was remixed by

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from a 1983 recording from an earlier Phase One Studios session. O'Hara said in 2008 of her experience making ''Miss America'': "I loved the

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es and the sheep rolling around the hills by the studio in Wales. But for Virgin to go from, 'You can do whatever you want', to 'What have you done?'—that was tough."

Composition

O'Hara selected the title ''Miss America'' for the album because she found its contents "so much unlike what those two words together said". In ''

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'',

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noted the album's minimalist production and varied musical styles, comparing its "acoustic guitar sound and liberal use of

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" to the

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genre, while also finding that the "slinky bass lines and cool piano" of certain tracks "evoke a smokey

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feel". According to Hughes, the songs on ''Miss America'' are characterized by O'Hara's "inimitably high-pitched, breathy and erratic ... high and low, brittle and soothing" vocals, as well as "her ethereal, often ambiguous lyrics".

Release

''Miss America'' was released by Virgin in 1988. It made little commercial impact, failing to chart. Nonetheless, positive press coverage of the album encouraged the label to issue "Body's in Trouble" as a single in February 1989, with an accompanying

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for the song also being produced. A second single, "Anew Day", was released later in 1989. O'Hara spent the year following the release of ''Miss America'' touring. The album was reissued by

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on August 13, 1996.

Critical reception and legacy

Upon release, ''Miss America'' received positive reviews from music critics. It was particularly acclaimed by critics in the United Kingdom and O'Hara's native Canada. Chris Roberts of ''

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'' highlighted how the album's songs explore themes of love while also avoiding "conventional

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" structures, commenting, "Rarely has the language of

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been so delicately and deftly subverted. Mary Margaret O'Hara has re-invented sincerity." At the end of 1988, the magazine named ''Miss America'' the year's 21st best album. ''

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'' reviewer Stuart Bailie compared O'Hara favorably to

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and

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in that O'Hara "has a flighty talent that allows her to transcend whatever genre she's messing with, and the presence to dispense with the usual verse/chorus stuff when the notion takes her." In a retrospective review for

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, Jason Ankeny stated that "''Miss America'' still sounds light years ahead of its time: Mary Margaret O'Hara is a force of nature, a remarkable singer and composer whose crystal-clear

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acrobatics and hypnotic songs defy accepted conventions." Writing for ''

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'' in 2018, Laura Snapes opined that it ranks alongside "

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's '' Blue Velvet'',

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' ''

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'', and

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's '' I'm Your Man''" as one of the 1980s' "jarring noir masterpieces". ''Miss America'' was included at number 32 in ''NME''s 1993 list of the greatest albums of the 1980s, and at number 88 in ''

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''s 1995 list of the greatest albums of all time. ''

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'' listed it in 2007 as one of "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die". In his 2007 book ''

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'', journalist

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organization to honor Canadian albums released before that prize's debut—in the 1986–1995 category. Fellow musicians have praised ''Miss America''.

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, on whose 1990 songs "

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" and "He Knows I'd Love to See Him" O'Hara provided additional vocals, said of the album: "I thought it so beautiful I suddenly realised I hadn't in a decade heard someone singing because of deep-set personal neurosis, absolute need and desperation." When ''

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'' surveyed artists on their favorite albums of 1989, ''Miss America'' was cited by

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, who ranked it number one on her list, and

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. The members of

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were fans of the record, according to the band's

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, who named it one of her all-time favorite albums. "You Will Be Loved Again" was covered both by Cowboy Junkies, on their 1990 album '' The Caution Horses'', and by Donelly with the Parkington Sisters, on their 2020 self-titled album. Covers of songs from ''Miss America'' have also been recorded by artists such as

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("Help Me Lift You Up", on 1991's ''

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''),

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("Dear Darling", on 1993's ''

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''), the

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and

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("To Cry About", on 2009's ''

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''),

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("Body's in Trouble", on 2011's ''I Love You, Go Easy''), and

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("Body's in Trouble", on a 2017 single). O'Hara followed ''Miss America'' in 1991 with the four-track, holiday-themed '' Christmas EP'', which would be her only release of new material under her own name in the 1990s, apart from several tracks that she contributed to assorted

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s. In subsequent years, she primarily performed on recordings by other artists, while also pursuing non-musical endeavors such as acting, teaching, and graphic design. In 2000, O'Hara appeared in the film ''

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'', for which she recorded an accompanying soundtrack album; issued in 2002, the soundtrack marked her first full-length album since ''Miss America'' 14 years earlier. O'Hara said in an interview after its release that as she felt the response to ''Miss America'' "was enough", she had not felt compelled to record a formal follow-up. In 2008, discussing her reluctance to begin work on another album, she remarked, "in some ways I think that if you have an idea, why do you have to make it?"

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Mary Margaret O'Hara. # "To Cry About" – 3:23 # "Year in Song" – 3:34 # "Body's in Trouble" – 4:58 # "Dear Darling" – 3:51 # "Anew Day" – 3:11 # "When You Know Why You're Happy" – 4:34 # "My Friends Have" – 3:10 # "Help Me Lift You Up" – 4:35 # "Keeping You in Mind" – 4:39 # "Not Be Alright" – 5:13 # "You Will Be Loved Again" – 3:36

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Musicians * Mary Margaret O'Hara – vocals,

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– guitar (tracks 5, 6),

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guitar (track 1) *

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– violin (tracks 3, 5, 9),

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log rhythm (track 10) * Rusty McCarthy – guitar (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (track 4), electric guitar (track 8) * Bruce Moffet – drums (track 3) *

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– Elias 5-string bass (tracks 1, 5, 6, 10), bass (track 9), string bass (track 11) * Hendrik Riik – bass (tracks 2–4, 7), electric bass (track 8) * Don Rooke – lap steel guitar (tracks 4, 6, 8), rhythm guitar (track 5), acoustic guitar (track 8) * John Sheard – piano (tracks 5, 9) * Michael Sloski – drums (tracks 2, 4–7, 9, 10) *

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– piano (track 3) Production * Mary Margaret O'Hara –

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, mixing * Michael Brook – production, mixing * Rhonda Bruce – assistant

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* Evan Caulford – assistant engineering * Paul Cobbold –

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* Jody Colero – executive production * Paul Gross – recording (track 3) * Bill Kennedy – additional engineering *

– mixing (track 3) * Kevin Markland – assistant engineering * Joe Primeau – recording *

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– additional engineering * Richard Schiller – assistant engineering *

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– additional engineering * Stephen Traub – recording * Mick Walsh – additional engineering Design * Mary Margaret O'Hara – artwork * Heather Cameron –

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, photography * Don Rooke – art direction, photography

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1988 debut albums Mary Margaret O'Hara albums Virgin Records albums Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios