''Sharon O'Neill'' is the second studio album by New Zealand singer and songwriter

Sharon O'Neill Sharon Lea O'Neill (born 23 November 1952) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and pianist, who had an Australasian hit single in 1983 with " Maxine" which reached No. 16 on both the Australian Kent Music Report and Recording Industry Association ...

. ''Sharon O'Neill'' peaked at No. 5 in New Zealand in March 1980. The album was released in Australia in August 1980 under the titled Words, with the inclusion of "

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Background and reception

CBS Records' manager John McCready recruited US producer Jay Lewis to work on the album. McCready recalls, “Jay with his brilliant production managed to enhance Sharon’s wonderful songs.” Gordon Campbell from the NZ Listener said “There are at least four tracks on ''Sharon O'Neill ''that are the equal of anything

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is capable of. Two songs "

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" and "Southern Blues" are marvelously evocative mood pieces.” adding “CBS deserve a lot of credit for having both the interest and the courage to put up the $30,000 that it took to make this album.”

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from vinyl record liner notes, which omit the musicians on "How Do You Talk To Boys." *

– lead vocals (1, 3-11), arrangements (1-11), backing vocals (1, 3-11), piano (1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11),

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synthesizer (1, 2), clarinet (8) *Clinton Brown – bass guitar (1-11) * Ross Burge – drums (1, 2, 4-11) *Peter Dawkins –

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(12) *Steve Garden – drums (3) *Jim Hall – string arrangement (7) *Jay Lewis – arrangements (all tracks), electric guitar (1, 2, 4-11),

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(1, 6), tambourine (4, 11), backing vocals (5, 7, 8, 10, 11), steel drum (8), production (1, 2, 4-11) *Dennis Mason – percussion (2, 5, 7), congas (4, 8, 10, 11), saxophone (5, 9, 11), backing vocals (8) *

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– electric piano (1, 5-7, 9, 10), Minimoog (1), piano (2, 3, 8), Yamaha synthesizer (5), acoustic guitar (10) *Simon Morris – backing vocals (3) *

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– strings (7) *Steve Robinson – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5-8), ARP Odyssey (1), backing vocals (3-7, 11), string machine (3), tambourine (3), electric guitar (9), production (3) *Jerry Smith –

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– backing vocals (8) *Brent Thomas – electric guitar (2, 3, 6, 11), backing vocals (8)

Charts

References

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