Inside the Fire (album)

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Inside the Fire
RCoolidge InsideFire.jpg
Studio album by
Released1984
Recorded Record Plant (Los Angeles, California)
Genre Pop
Label A&M
Producer Tom Dowd for Tom Dowd Productions, Inc
Rita Coolidge chronology
Never Let You Go
(1983)
Inside the Fire
(1984)
Fire Me Back
(1990)

Inside the Fire is a 1984 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label. This would prove to be Rita's last studio album with her longtime label, A&M Records. The album features the top 15 adult contemporary hit "Something Said Love" and the Richard Kerr/Will Jennings ballad "I Can't Afford That Feeling Anymore". The album has yet to be released on CD.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hit Me on the Loveside" (J.C. Crowley, Marcy Levy) – 4:07
  2. "Do You Believe in Love" (Graham Lyle) – 3:34
  3. "I Can't Afford That Feeling Anymore" (Richard Kerr, Will Jennings) – 3:49
  4. "Games" (Vince Melamed, Andrea Farber) – 3:30
  5. "Wishing Star" (Vince Melamed, Chris Thompson) – 3:40

Side two

  1. "I'm Comin' Home" (Charlie Williams, Danny Chauncey, David Brown) – 3:55
  2. "Something Said Love" (Wood Newton, Jerry Michael) – 3:36
  3. "Love From Tokyo" (Kenji Sawada, Yoshiko Miura, Ralph F. McCarthy) – 3:42
  4. "Survivor" (Priscilla Coolidge, Mary Unobsky, Danny Ironstone) – 3:29
  5. "Love Is Muddy Water" (Jim Hunt, Arnold Goldstein) – 3:46

Personnel

Production


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