Lake II

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Lake II
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Studio album by
Released1978
Genre rock, pop
Label CBS
Producer Detlef Petersen, Lake
Lake chronology
Lake
(1976)
Lake II
(1978)
Paradise Island
(1979)
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Lake II is the second studio album by Lake, released in 1978.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Detlef Petersen and James Hopkins-Harrison except as indicated

Side One

  1. "Welcome to the West" - 5:07
  2. "See Them Glow" - 4:59
  3. "Letters of Love"- 3:40
  4. "Red Lake" (J. Hopkins-Harrison, Geoffrey Peacey) - 4:57 (background vocal: Beach Boy Carl Wilson)
  5. "Love's the Jailor"(*) - 4:29

(*)This is the correct title per the original LP release; later CD releases have it as "Love's a Jailer".

Side Two

  1. "Lost by the Wayside" (J. Hopkins-Harrison, Geoffrey Peacey) - 4:25
  2. "Highway 216" - 3:37
  3. "Angel in Disguise" - 4:28
  4. "Scoobie Doobies" (J. Hopkins-Harrison, Geoffrey Peacey) - 7:44

Personnel

Produced by Detlef Petersen and Lake
Engineered by Geoffrey Peacey
Recorded at Russl Studios, Hamburg, Rockfield Studios, South Wales, Caribou Ranch, Colorado
String arrangements on "Love's the Jailor" by Peter Hecht
Mixed at Caribou Ranch, Colorado, and Russl Studios, Hamburg
Cover illustration by James McMullan
Design by Paula Scher

LP: Columbia Records JC 35289
CD: Renaissance RMED0126

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