Try Love (Amii Stewart album)

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".

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

• Amii Stewart - vocals on all tracks

"That Loving Feeling"

• Sandro Centofanti- keyboards
• Fabio Pignatelli- bass
• Giancarlo Maurino- saxophone
• Mike Francis- Linn Drum programming, backing vocals
• Paul Micioni- Linn Drum programming
• Charlie Cannon, Douglas Meakin- backing vocals

"Try Love"

• Sandro Centofanti- piano, keyboards
• Dino D'Autorio- bass
• Agostino Marangolo- drums
• Mike Francis, Charlie Cannon, Douglas Meakin- backing vocals

"Dangerous Rhythm"

• Romano Musumarra- keyboards
• Marco Rinalduzzi- guitar
• Fabio Pignatelli- bass
• Walter Martino- drums

"Losing Control"

• Sandro Centofanti- Fender piano, keyboards
• Carlo Pennisi- guitar
• Dino D'Autorio- bass
• Agostino Marangolo- drums

"Friends"

• Mike Francis- guest vocals, Linn drum, "Drummulator", backing vocals
• Paul Micioni- Linn drum, "Drummulator"
• Sandro Centofanti (??; too small to read on images)- keyboards
• Charlie Cannon, Douglas Meakin- backing vocals

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

"I Gotta Have You Back"

• Romano Musumarra- keyboards
• Mike Francis- keyboard bass, Linn Drum programming
• Fabio Pignatelli- bass guitar
• Walter Martino- percussion
• Paul Micioni- Linn Drum programming
• Mike Francis, Charlie Cannon, Douglas Meakin- backing vocals

"High Dimension"

• Sandro Centofanti- keyboards
• Walter Martino- drums
• Mike Francis, Charlie Cannon, Toti Vitale- backing vocals

"Fever Line"

• Romano Musumarra- keyboards
• Sandro Centofanti- keyboards
• Fabio Pignatelli- bass
• Giancarlo Maurino- saxophone
• Walter Martino- drums

"Dance Till You Get Enough"

• Laszlo Benker- keyboards
• Sandro Centofanti- keyboard bass
• Leslie Mandoki- drums, percussion
• Walter Martino- drums, percussion

"Mother Mary"

• Sandro Centofanti- piano, keyboards
• Walter Martino- drums

^[2]

Production

All tracks Except B4

• Paolo Micioni- Producer
• Mike Francis- Arranger

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".

References