Mary MacGregor (album)

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Mary MacGregor
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Studio album by
Released1980
Label RSO RS-1-3083
Producer David J. Holman
Norman Gimbel and Elmer Bernstein on "Good Friend"
Mary MacGregor chronology
Mary MacGregor's Greatest Hits
(1979)
Mary MacGregor
(1980)

Mary MacGregor is the singer's self-titled third and final album, released in 1980. After recording two albums for Ariola Records - who had also released a Mary MacGregor compilation - MacGregor had recorded the track "Good Friend" for the 1979 film Meatballs whose soundtrack album was released by RSO Records. "Good Friend" had been sufficiently successful - reaching No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 - for RSO to sign MacGregor in December 1979. This resultant self-titled album produced a minor hit in "Dancin' Like Lovers" - No. 72 in the spring of 1980 - followed by the non-charting "Somebody Please" which was evidently MacGregor's final single release. The Mary MacGregor album is out of print and has never been issued on CD.

Track listing

Side One:

  1. "Dancin' Like Lovers" (Larry Herbstritt, Douglas Thiele)
  2. "You're Just Between Love"
  3. "Somebody Please" (R. Prentice)
  4. "Love, What Took You So Long" (Richard Kerr, John Bettis)
  5. "Anything But Yes Is Still a No" (Leslie Pearl)

Side Two:

  1. "Good Friend" (Elmer Bernstein, Norman Gimbel)
  2. "Randy"
  3. "I Can't Hold On" (Karla Bonoff)
  4. "Dominoes"
  5. "Never Give Up"

Personnel


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