Try Love (Amii Stewart album)

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Try Love
Amii Stewart - Try Love.jpg
Studio album by
Amii Stewart
Released1984, 1985
Recorded1984, 1985
Genre R&B, dance, pop
Length38:24
Label RCA Victor
Producer Paul Micioni
Track B4: Laszlo Benker and Leslie Mandoki
Amii Stewart chronology
Amii Stewart
(1983)
Try Love
(1984)
The Hits
(1985)

Try Love is a studio album by Amii Stewart, first released in Italy in 1984. It includes singles "That Loving Feeling" (written by Tony Joe White), "I Gotta Have You Back" and "Try Love".

Contents

After the commercial success of the non-album single "Friends" in 1985, the album was re-released internationally with an extended remix of the song replacing the track "Mother Mary." Certain original (1984) versions of the album had already included the original (non-extended) version of "Friends" as an additional (fifth) track on Side A, maintaining "Mother Mary" as the final track on the album. [1]

Try Love has been reissued on the MP3 download format.

Track listing

Side A:

  1. "That Loving Feeling" (Tony Joe White) (4:33)
  2. "Try Love" (Charlie Cannon, Mike Francis) (4:00)
  3. "Dangerous Rhythm" (John Foxx) (4:40)
  4. "Losing Control" (Randy Hebert) (4:42)
  5. "Friends" (Mike Francis) (4:30) **Only appeared on certain editions of the album

Side B:

  1. "I Gotta Have you Back" (Cannon, Francis) (4:25)
  2. "High Dimension" (Amii Stewart, Salvatore "Toti" Vitale) (4:00)
  3. "Fever Line" (Stewart, Vitale) (4:54)
  4. "Dance Till You Get Enough" (Laszlo Benker, Leslie Mándoki, Timothy Touchton) (3:23)
  5. "Mother Mary" (Harold "Lally" Stott, Mario & Giosy Capuano) (3:47)

Personnel

"That Loving Feeling"

"Try Love"

"Dangerous Rhythm"

"Losing Control"

"Friends"

[1] (see "more images" for the album)

"I Gotta Have You Back"

"High Dimension"

"Fever Line"

"Dance Till You Get Enough"

"Mother Mary"

[2]

Production

All tracks Except B4

Track B4

Produced and arranged by Laszlo Benker and Leslie Mandoki

[2]

Alternative album editions

Try Love (international version): "Friends" (Extended Remix), recorded 1985 replacing "Mother Mary".

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