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1982 studio album by Heart
Private Audition
Released May 20, 1982 (1982-05-20 )
[1] Recorded October 1981 – March 1982 Studio
Genre
Length 40 :19
Label
Epic
Producer
Private Audition is the sixth studio album by American
rock band
Heart , released on May 20, 1982, by
Epic Records . The album reached number 25 on the US
Billboard 200 , spending 14 weeks on the chart.
[6] It spawned the single "
This Man Is Mine ", which peaked at number 33 on the
Billboard Hot 100 . It is the last Heart album to feature longtime members Mike Derosier and
Steve Fossen , who left after the recording of the album and were replaced by
Denny Carmassi and
Mark Andes .
In 2009, Private Audition was re-released by
BGO Records as a double CD with the band's subsequent album,
Passionworks (1983). Prior to this, Private Audition had been out of print for a number of years and was Heart's most difficult CD to obtain.
[7]
[8]
Track listing
Side one Title Writer(s) 1. "
City's Burning " 4:26 2. "Bright Light Girl" 3:19 3. "Perfect Stranger" 3:51 4. "Private Audition" 3:19 5. "Angels" 3:00 6. "
This Man Is Mine " 3:00
Side two Title Writer(s) 7. "The Situation" N. Wilson Michael Derosier 4:33 8. "Hey Darlin Darlin" 3:43 9. "One Word" N. Wilson 4:32 10. "Fast Times" 3:51 11. "America" 2:45
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Private Audition .
[9]
Heart
Ann Wilson – vocals (all tracks) ; piano (tracks 3, 4) ; backing vocals (track 6) ; flutes (track 8) ; bass guitar (track 11)
Nancy Wilson – second vocal (tracks 1, 6, 11) ; acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10) ;
electric piano ,
acoustic piano (track 2) ; bass guitar (tracks 2, 6) ; vocals (tracks 2–5, 7–9) ; acoustic six- and
twelve-string guitars (track 3) ; electric guitar (tracks 4, 6, 7, 10) ; piano (track 4) ; piano strings (track 5) ; backing vocals (track 6) ;
pedal steel guitar (track 9) ;
blues harp
Howard Leese – electric guitar (tracks 1–3, 7, 9, 10) ; synthesizers (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10) ;
Moog drum (tracks 1, 7) ; acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 5, 8) ; orchestra bells (track 3) ; acoustic twelve-string (track 4) ; vocals (tracks 4, 5, 7, 8) ; piano strings (track 5) ;
Hammond organ (tracks 6, 10) ;
Moog bass , computer effects,
clavioline (track 7) ; bass guitar,
alto recorder (track 8) ; cymbal (track 11) , strings score and conducting (tracks 3, 8, 11)
Steve Fossen – bass (track 1, 3, 4, 9, 10)
Michael Derosier – drums (tracks 1–4, 6–10)
Additional musicians
Lynn Wilson – vocals (tracks 3, 4, 7, 8) ; backing vocals (track 6)
Sue Ennis – piano (track 11)
Technical
Artwork
Dale Windham – photography
Charts
Notes
References
^
"New Releases" (PDF) .
FMQB . May 7, 1982. p. 40. Retrieved March 24, 2023 .
^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995).
The Great Rock Discography . p. 374.
ISBN
9780862415419 .
^ Smith, Jim.
"Private Audition – Heart" .
AllMusic . Retrieved June 2, 2014 .
^
Connelly, Christopher .
"Album Reviews: Heart – Private Audition" .
Rolling Stone . Archived from
the original on May 18, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2014 .
^ Coleman, Mark; Berger, Arion (2004).
"Heart" . In
Brackett, Nathan ;
Hoard, Christian (eds.).
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York:
Simon & Schuster . p.
372 .
ISBN
0-7432-0169-8 .
^
a
b
"Heart Chart History (Billboard 200)" .
Billboard . Retrieved June 19, 2020.
^
"Private Audition / Passionworks" .
Amazon . United Kingdom. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
^
"Private Audition/Passionworks – Heart" . AllMusic . Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
^ Private Audition (liner notes).
Heart .
Epic Records . 1982. FE 38049.{{
cite AV media notes }}
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link )
^
"Top RPM Albums: Issue 6556" .
RPM .
Library and Archives Canada . Retrieved June 19, 2020.
^
"Official Albums Chart Top 100" .
Official Charts Company . Retrieved June 19, 2020.
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