Blue Tears (album)

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Blue Tears
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Studio album by Blue Tears
Released June 7, 1990
Genre Hard rock, glam metal
Length44:05
Label MCA
Blue Tears chronology
Blue Tears
(1990)
Mad, Bad and Dangerous
(2005)
Professional ratings
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Blue Tears is the debut album of the band of the same name. The album was released in 1990 by MCA Records. It spawned several singles and videos like "Innocent Kiss" and "Rockin' with the Radio". "Rockin' with the Radio" peaked at #45 in "Aor Tracks" chart by Radio & Records [2] and its video received medium airplay on MTV. [3]

MCA Records US record label, imprint of MCA Records, Inc.

MCA Records was an American major record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group, which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003. The label's country division MCA Nashville is a still active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville.

Radio & Records (R&R) was a trade publication providing news and airplay information for the radio and music industries. It started as an independent trade from 1973 to 2006 until VNU Media took over in 2006 and became a relaunched sister trade to Billboard, until its final issue in 2009.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Gregg Fulkerson, except where noted.

  1. "Rockin' With the Radio" - 4:23
  2. "Crush" (Fulkerson, Kevin Savigar) - 4:12
  3. "Blue Tears" - 5:18
  4. "Take This Heart" (Fulkerson, Ron Hutcheson) - 4:27
  5. "Halfway to Heaven" - 3:56
  6. "Innocent Kiss" - 3:23
  7. "Racing With the Moon" - 3:29
  8. "Kiss Me Goodbye" - 4:45
  9. "True Romance" - 5:03
  10. "Thunder in the Night" (Fulkerson, Savigar) - 5:01

Personnel

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References

  1. Blue Tears at AllMusic
  2. "Aor Tracks" (PDF). Radio & Records. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  3. "MTV - Medium" (PDF). Radio & Records. Retrieved January 20, 2018.