Heart Strings (Linda Lewis album)

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Heart Strings
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Studio album by
Released1974
Genre Soul, Rhythm and blues
Label Reprise
Producer Jim Cregan, Tony Silvester and Bert DeCoteaux
Linda Lewis chronology
Not a Little Girl Anymore
(1973)
Heart Strings
(1974)
Woman Overboard
(1977)

Heart Strings is an album by British singer-songwriter Linda Lewis. It was her last album with Reprise Records.

Contents

This album is essentially a compilation which includes tracks from her first three solo records Reprise label releases and also includes three tracks that were only otherwise available on singles: "Safe and Sound," "Sideway Shuffle" and "Rock a Doodle Do". The record was released following Lewis' departure to Arista Records, but before her hit "It's in His Kiss".

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Sideway Shuffle" – March 1974 single
  2. "Old Smokey" – from the Lark album
  3. "We Can Win" – from the Say No More album
  4. "I'm In Love Again" – from the Fathoms Deep album
  5. "Reach For The Truth" – from the Lark album

Side 2

  1. "Rock A Doodle Doo" – June 1973 single
  2. "On The Stage" – from the Fathoms Deep album
  3. "Fathoms Deep" – from the Fathoms Deep album
  4. "Safe And Sound" – b-side of "Sideway Shuffle"
  5. "I Dunno" – from the Say No More album

Credits

Notes

Tracks A2 and A5 from Lark LP. Tracks A4, B2 and B3 from Fathoms Deep LP.[ citation needed ]

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