''Julia Fordham'' is the debut
album
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by the English singer-songwriter
Julia Fordham, released in 1988. It includes the single "
Happy Ever After", which reached number 27 in the
UK Singles Chart, along with three further singles: "The Comfort of Strangers" (UK No. 89), "Woman of the 80's" (UK No. 83) and "Where Does the Time Go?" (UK No. 41).
Track listing
All tracks written by Julia Fordham.
Personnel
Adapted from
AllMusic
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Afrodiziak – vocals
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Carlos Alomar
Carlos Alomar (born 7 May 1951) is a Puerto Rican guitarist. He is best known for his work with David Bowie from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician.
History
The son of a Pentecostal mi ...
– guitar
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Brian Aris – photography
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Howie B
Howard Simon Bernstein (born 18 April 1963, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish musician, producer and DJ who has worked with artists including Björk, U2, Tricky, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soul II Soul, Robbie Robertson, Elisa, Mukul Deo ...
– assistant engineer
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Robin Clark
Robin Clark is an American vocalist known for her work as a vocalist on David Bowie's 1975 album ''Young Americans'' and Simple Minds' 1985 album ''Once Upon a Time''.
Clark was born in New York. In 1967, when Clark was 17, she and future s ...
– vocals
*Michael Cozzi – guitar
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Claudia Fontaine
Claudia Fontaine (26 August 1960 – 13 March 2018) was a backing vocalist from Peckham, London.
Career
During the 1980s, Fontaine and fellow backing vocalist Caron Wheeler (and later, third member Naomi Thompson) were known as Afrodiziak. S ...
– vocals
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Antonio Forcione – guitar
*Julia Fordham – vocals
*Angie Giles – vocals
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Omar Hakim
Omar Hakim (born February 12, 1959) is an American drummer, producer, arranger and composer. His session work covers jazz, jazz fusion, and pop music. He has worked with Weather Report, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Chic, Sting, Madonna, Dire S ...
– drums
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Luís Jardim
Luís Alberto Figueira Gonçalves Jardim (born 4 July 1950) is a Portuguese percussionist born on the island of Madeira. He is best known for his work with producer Trevor Horn.
Family
Jardim is a cousin of Alberto João Jardim (former presiden ...
– percussion
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Bashiri Johnson
Bashiri Johnson (born May 12, 1955) is an American percussionist, whose work has appeared on many records, as well as in commercials, films, television, video games, and concert performances. He is known to be one of the most recorded percussio ...
– percussion
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Robbie Kondor
Robbie Kondor is an American composer, session musician, and arranger. He has worked as a composer on '' The Significant Other'', '' Ball In The House'', ''Sally Jessy Raphael'', ''Happiness'' (1998), '' The Suburbans'' (1999), '' Forever Fabul ...
- keyboards
*Noel Langley – flugelhorn, flute, trumpet
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Tony Levin
Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (19 ...
– bass
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Bob Ludwig
Robert Carl Ludwig (born December 11, 1944), is a retired American mastering engineer. He mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists, including Led Zeppeli ...
– mastering
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Joe Mardin – conductor
*Grant Mitchell – arranger, brass arrangement, keyboard programming, keyboards, producer, programming, string arrangements, vocals
*Peter Mountain – photography
*The New West Horns – ensemble, horn
*John O'Kane – bass, vocals
*Naomi Osbourne – vocals
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Hugh Padgham
Hugh Charles Padgham (born 15 February 1955) is an English record producer and audio engineer. He has won four Grammy Awards, for Producer of the Year and Album of the Year for 1985, Record of the Year for 1990, and Engineer of the Year for 199 ...
– engineer, mixing
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Bill Padley
Bill Padley (born 5 March 1961) is a Scottish record producer and songwriter.
He, along with Jem Godfrey, won an Ivor Novello Award on 25 May 2006, for the Christmas number 1 record and best selling single of 2005, "That's My Goal", by ''The X ...
– engineer, producer, programming, vocals
*David Palmer – bass, cello, drums, stick
*Dave Sinclair – bass, cello, stick
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Ashley Slater
Ashley Slater (born 1961) is a Canadian-born British trombone player and best known for his narration on the television series '' Boo!'' as well as his work with Norman Cook (a.k.a. Fatboy Slim) in the band Freak Power.
Career
In 1983 after le ...
– trombone
*Andy Snitzer – saxophone
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Caron Wheeler
Caron Melina Wheeler (born 19 January 1963) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born and raised in London, she performed in various singing competitions as a teenager and began her recording career as one of the found ...
– vocals
*Taj Wyzgowski – guitar
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Certifications
References
External links
''Julia Fordham''at
Discogs
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1988 debut albums
Virgin Records albums
Julia Fordham albums