Amii Stewart (album)

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Amii Stewart
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Studio album by
Amii Stewart
Released1983
Recorded1983
Genre R&B, Dance-pop, Disco
Label RCA Victor
Producer Simon Boswell
Amii Stewart chronology
I'm Gonna Get Your Love
(1982)
Amii Stewart
(1983)
Try Love
(1984)
Professional ratings
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Amii Stewart is a studio album by Amii Stewart released in 1983 which includes hit single "Working Late Tonight" as well as covers of two songs from Donna Summer's unreleased 1981 album I'm a Rainbow . In 2015, Funky Town Grooves announced they would be reissuing the album on CD for the first time ever.

Contents

Cover version

Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan covered "Working Late Tonight" in Turkish the same year as "Uykusuz her gece" on her album Süperstar 83. [2]

Track listing

Side A:

  1. "Working Late Tonight" (Mario Capuano, Simon Boswell)- 4:04
  2. "Nobody but Me" (Leslie Mándoki) - 3:30
  3. "Sweet Emotion" (Pete Bellotte, Sylvester Levay) - 3:47
  4. "Don't Ask Me Why" (Leslie Mándoki) - 3:35
  5. "Take a Heart" (Miki Dallon) - 3:28

Side B:

  1. "Beginning of the End" (Gerard McMahon, Tom Bahlen) - 3:56
  2. "You to Me" (Pete Bellotte, Sylvester Levay) - 4:41
  3. "Say Goodbye to Love" (Simon Boswell) - 4:02
  4. "Once Again" (Vili Lakatos) - 3:43

Personnel

Production

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