Never Let You Go (album)

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Never Let You Go
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1983
RecordedJune – September 1982
StudioSoundcastle Recording Studios and The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, California)
Genre Pop
Label A&M
Producer David Anderle; *co-produced with Bernie Worrell
Rita Coolidge chronology
Heartbreak Radio
(1981)
Never Let You Go
(1983)
Inside the Fire
(1984)

Never Let You Go is a 1983 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label. The album originally did not contain the song "All Time High" from the movie Octopussy. After the success of the song, it was added to later pressings and included on the album.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "I'll Never Let You Go" (James House, Wendy Waldman) – 4:18
  2. "Tempted"* (Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Difford) – 3:45
  3. "Stop Wasting Your Time"* (Ian Dury, Chas Jankel) – 4:12
  4. "Shadow in the Night"* (Jimbeau Hinson, Tony Brown) – 3:35
  5. "Only You" (Vince Clark) – 3:15

Side two

  1. "You Do It" (Deborah Allen, Eddie Struzick, Rafe Van Hoy) – 3:19
  2. "Fools in Love"* (Joe Jackson) – 3:44
  3. "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (M. Craig, R. Hay, J. Moss, G. O'Dowd) – 4:00
  4. "You Ought to Be with Me"* (Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Al Jackson) – 3:15
  5. "We've Got Tonite"* (Duet with Jermaine Jackson) (Bob Seger) – 4:38

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1983)Position
Japan Albums (Oricon) [1] 15

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References

  1. Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN   4-87131-077-9.