The Girls Next Door (album)

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The Girls Next Door
Girls next door album.jpg
Studio album by
Released1986
StudioSound Stage, Emerald Sound Stage III, Master Mix, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Label MTM
Producer Tommy West
Girls Next Door chronology
The Girls Next Door
(1986)
What a Girl Next Door Could Do
(1987)

The Girls Next Door is the debut album of American country music group Girls Next Door. It was released in 1986 through MTM Records.

Contents

Content

The Girls Next Door accounted for four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. First was "Love Will Get You Through Times of No Money" at number fourteen, followed by the group's most successful single "Slow Boat to China" at number eight. After this were "Baby I Want It" at number 26 and "Walk Me in the Rain" at number 28. [1]

Critical reception

Jim Lewis of United Press International praised the group's vocal harmony, as well as the lyrics of "Love Will Get You Through Times of No Money". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Made in America" (Mike Ragogna) - 3:07
  2. "Sittin' in Your Stairwell" (Beth Nielsen Chapman) - 4:19
  3. "Baby I Want It" (Chapman) - 2:54
  4. "Walk Me in the Rain" (Tony Romeo) - 3:38
  5. "Love Will Get You Through Times of No Money" (Sam Lorber, Tim DuBois, Jeff Silbar) - 3:20
  6. "Slow Boat to China" (Ragogna) - 3:28
  7. "Pretty Boy's Cadillac" (Radney Foster, Beckie Foster) - 3:12
  8. "The Fool in Me" (Ragogna) - 3:50
  9. "I Can't Say It on the Radio" (Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro) - 3:15
  10. "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (Boudleaux Bryant) - 3:18

Personnel

Girls Next Door
Musicians
Strings on "All I Have to Do Is Dream"
Technical

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2017). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017. Record Research, Inc. p. 142. ISBN   978-0-89820-229-8.
  2. "Album reviews". Simi Valley Star. June 1, 1986. p. 25. Retrieved September 11, 2024.