Heartbeats Accelerating | ||||
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Released | 1990 | |||
Recorded | 1989–90 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 42:33 | |||
Label | Private | |||
Producer | Pierre Marchand | |||
Kate & Anna McGarrigle chronology | ||||
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Heartbeats Accelerating is the sixth album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 1990. It was their first album in eight years, after Love Over and Over in 1982, and received favourable reviews from many music critics.
Bill Dillon, Pierre Marchand, Joel Zifkin and Kate's son Rufus Wainwright appear as guest musicians.
The title track was covered by Linda Ronstadt on her 1993 album Winter Light . It was given a New Age treatment in the vein of Enya and became a worldwide hit. Issued as a single, Ronstadt's version of the song reached the Top 30 at the Adult Contemporary format in America, number 12 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the United States, and peaked at number 17 on Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks (the Canadian equivalent of the Billboard Hot 100). Aided by a romantic music video, it was also successful in several other countries, including Australia.
The song "I Eat Dinner (When the Hunger's Gone)" was covered in 2004 by Kate's son Rufus Wainwright along with Dido for the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and it appears on the soundtrack album.
Cœur de pirate covered the album's title track on the soundtrack album for the fifth season of the television drama series Trauma .
Emmylou Harris included a cover of the song "Love Is", with backing vocals by Kate and Anna, on her 1989 album "Bluebird" - 2 years before it was included in the McGarrigle's own album.
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