Snapshot (Sylvia album)

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Snapshot
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Studio album by
Released1983
Genre Country
Length35:23
Label RCA Nashville
Producer Tom Collins
Sylvia chronology
Just Sylvia
(1982)
Snapshot
(1983)
Surprise
(1984)
Singles from Snapshot
  1. "Snapshot"
    Released: May 7, 1983
  2. "The Boy Gets Around"
    Released: August 1983
  3. "I Never Quite Got Back (From Loving You)"
    Released: December 3, 1983

Snapshot is the third album by country music singer Sylvia. People Magazine reviewed it on 6.27.83: "Recently voted the Academy of Country Music's top female vocalist, Sylvia has a hot single (the title track) to go with the gold records she collected for last year's single "Nobody" and her album, Just Sylvia. She just might be the hottest thing to hit Nashville since Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. This album should consolidate her position nicely. Much of the material was written by Rhonda Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan. That includes "Snapshot," a betrayed-wife tune; "Bobby's in Vicksburg," a contemporary Civil War ditty; a pleasant love song, "Jason" (written with Mack David); and "Tonight (I'm Gettin' Friendly with the Blues)". Sylvia is among the most restrained of today's women country singers. She'll never stun anyone with her vocal agility, but she always sings with control, feeling and grace."

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Snapshot" (Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan) - 3:41
  2. "Tonight I'm Getting Friendly With The Blues" (William T. Davidson) - 2:53
  3. "Winter Heart" (Fleming, Morgan) - 3:29
  4. "Bobby's in Vicksburg" (Fleming, Morgan) - 3:29
  5. "Gone But Not Forgotten" (Fleming, Morgan) - 3:31
  6. "The Boy Gets Around" (Fleming, Morgan) - 3:27
  7. "Who's Kidding Who" (Davidson, Charles Quillen) - 3:25
  8. "Jason" (Fleming, Morgan, Mack David) - 4:12
  9. "So Complete" (Fleming, Morgan, Karen Charlton) - 3:14
  10. "I Never Quite Got Back (From Loving You)" (Mike Reid, Don Pfrimmer) - 3:33

Chart performance

Chart (1983)Peak
position
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [1] 62
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums [2] 7
U.S. Billboard 200 [3] 77

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References

  1. "Top RPM Albums: Issue 6303b". RPM . Library and Archives Canada.
  2. "Billboard 200". billboard.com. Billboard. 15 July 1983. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
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