Watch Me (album)

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Watch Me
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 6, 1992
RecordedJanuary–March 1992
Genre Country
Label BNA
Producer Richard Landis
Lorrie Morgan chronology
Something in Red
(1991)
Watch Me
(1992)
Merry Christmas from London
(1993)
Singles from Watch Me
  1. "Watch Me"
    Released: August 1992
  2. "What Part of No"
    Released: December 7, 1992
  3. "I Guess You Had to Be There"
    Released: February 1993
  4. "Half Enough"
    Released: June 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Entertainment Weekly B [2]
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Watch Me is the third studio album by American country music singer Lorrie Morgan. The album was her first for BNA Records. It was released on 9 October 1992. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard country albums chart, and includes the singles "Watch Me" (#2) "What Part of No" (#1), "I Guess You Had to Be There" (#14), and "Half Enough" (#8). Also included on this album is a cover of "It's a Heartache", a pop standard previously recorded by Bonnie Tyler and Juice Newton.

Contents

Jimmy Griffin, Richard Mainegra, and Rick Yancey are all featured as background vocalists on this album. At the time, these three musicians recorded on BNA as The Remingtons. Mainegra and Yancey also wrote the last track, "She's Takin' Him Back Again", which was omitted from the cassette version of Watch Me. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Half Enough" (Wendy Waldman, Reed Nielsen) – 3:50
  2. "I Guess You Had to Be There" (Jon Robbin, Barbara Cloyd) – 4:10
  3. "What Part of No" (Wayne Perry, Gerald Smith) – 2:46
  4. "You Leave Me Like This" (Skip Ewing) – 2:53
  5. "Someone to Call Me Darling" (Dale Daniel, Naomi Martin) – 2:52
  6. "Watch Me" (Tom Shapiro, Gary Burr) – 3:37
  7. "Behind His Last Goodbye" (Charles Harter, Smith) – 3:30
  8. "It's a Heartache" (Ronnie Scott, Steve Wolfe) – 4:29
  9. "From Our House to Yours" (Angela Kaset) – 3:49
  10. "She's Takin' Him Back Again" (Richard Mainegra, Rick Yancey) – 2:56

Production

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [4]

Charts

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Entertainment Weekly review
  3. Los Angeles Times review
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