A Tear and a Smile (Linda Lewis album)

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A Tear and a Smile
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1983
Genre Soul, Rhythm and blues
Label Raft Records
Producer Bert DeCouteaux
Linda Lewis chronology
Hacienda View
(1979)
A Tear and a Smile
(1983)
Second Nature
(1995)

A Tear and a Smile is an album by English singer Linda Lewis, released in 1983. Lewis' eighth album.

Contents

Track listing

Side One

  1. "This Boy" – (Linda Lewis, Bill Amesbury)
  2. "Destination Love" – (Diane Warren)
  3. "(Close the Door) Take Your Heart" – (Allee Willis, David Lasley)
  4. "Don't Let It Go" – (Soo Jeffers, Stephen Rutledge)
  5. "I Am What I Am" – (Colin Campsie, George McFarlane, Billy Lyall)

Side Two

  1. "Take Me For a Little While" – (Trade Martin)
  2. "You Don't Know What You're Missing" – (Barbara Morr, Kathy Ingraham)
  3. "Why Can't I Be The Other Woman" – (Linda Lewis, Toni Attell)
  4. "Sweet Heartache" – (Linda Lewis)
  5. "I Can't Get Enough" – (Linda Lewis)

2012 Remastered CD Bonus Tracks

  1. "Come on Back" – (Linda Lewis)
  2. "I Can Take It" – (Linda Lewis, Bill Amesbury)
  3. "Class/Style (I've Got It)" (12" groove mix) – (David McGarry, David Parton, Les Hunt)
  4. "You Turned My Bitter into Sweet" – (Chester Pipkin, Gary Pipkin, Marc Gordon)
  5. "Class/Style (I've Got It)" (single version) – (David McGarry, David Parton, Les Hunt)

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