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#ROD STEWARD SONG WRITTEN BY DANNY WHITTON PLUS#
#ROD STEWARD SONG WRITTEN BY DANNY WHITTON SERIES#

Rod Stewart 1975-1978 is due on vinyl and digitally on June 4 from Rhino. But now we can finally hear a selection of session material (five songs total) from those albums including a rendition of Smokey Robinson's 'You Really Got a Hold on Me.'

#ROD STEWARD SONG WRITTEN BY DANNY WHITTON SERIES#

Unfortunately, that series never continued with Foot Loose and Fancy Free and Blondes Have More Fun. The first five tracks were released on Rhino's 2009 Deluxe 2-CD editions of Atlantic Crossing and A Night on the Town. On this set, it's followed by a rarities collection. In 1979, it was followed in stores by a greatest-hits package. The Warner box ends with Blondes Have More Fun. Despite its title, 'Ain't Love a Bitch' was another vulnerable rumination 'Standing in the Shadows of Love' reinvented the Four Tops' Motown classic. The other material reflected Stewart's usual interests. Singles Chart as well as similar success internationally. The infectious 'Da' Ya Think I'm Sexy' rode its disco beat all the way to the top of the U.S. But the public had no such reservations, taking it to No. The final LP in this Warner quartet, Blondes Have More Fun, was critically divisive as Stewart and Dowd embraced disco and dance music. The Slow Side offered soul-imbued cuts from Motown ('You Keep Me Hangin' On') and Stax ('(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right' as well as the Stewart/Gary Grainger-written 'I Was Only Joking,' featuring Jim Cregan's impressive guitar solo and another sensitive lyric from the typically swaggering star. 5 U.K.) and the football (soccer) anthem 'You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)' (No. Stewart and Dowd split 1977's Foot Loose and Fancy Free into two parts: Side One was 'The Fast Side,' and Side Two was 'The Slow Side.' The Fast Side yielded the rowdy rocker 'Hot Legs' (No. 3 AC hit in the U.S., it was a double-sided A-side with 'I Don't Want to Talk About It' in the U.K. Stewart's hot streak continued with his cover of Cat Stevens' 'The First Cut Is the Deepest.' A No. 30 in the U.S., no small feat for a song with such serious subject matter. Part I was released as a single, reaching No. 1 that was the longest run atop the chart (eight weeks) since The Beatles' 'Hey Jude.' Stewart also penned the two-part 'The Killing of Georgie.' The unflinching story of a gay man murdered in New York City was inspired by a true story about a friend of Stewart and the Faces. Despite controversy over its lyrics and spoken-word cameo from Stewart's girlfriend, actress Britt Ekland, the song was the U.S.' best-selling song of 1977 in the wake of a record-breaking run at No. 'Tonight's the Night' was a gorgeously melodic slice of pop that also happened to be rather risqué.

it pushed the envelope with its self-written material. 1 in the five countries (including the U.K.) and No. But for as wildly successful as the album was - No. While Dowd lent the sound a slick veneer, Stewart leaned heavily into his blue-eyed soul stylings on songs including a cover of The Isley Brothers' Motown classic 'This Old Heart of Mine' and Gerry Goffin and Barry Goldberg's 'It's Not the Spotlight.' When Faces embarked on one last tour following the release of Atlantic Crossing, only the Stewart original 'Three Time Loser' made it into the setlist.ĭowd and Stewart expanded upon the same formula for A Night on the Town.

Produced by Tom Dowd and recorded at various studios including A&R in New York, Criteria in Miami and Muscle Shoals in Alabama, the LP introduced his renditions of Danny Whitten's 'I Don't Want to Talk About It' and Gavin Sutherland's 'Sailing ' the latter was a major international hit, topping the charts in the U.K., Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway. It's due on June 4 in vinyl and digital/streaming formats.Ībandoning the rootsy rock and roll of The Faces, Atlantic Crossing found Stewart with a sleek new sound.

#ROD STEWARD SONG WRITTEN BY DANNY WHITTON PLUS#

The simply-titled Rod Stewart 1975-1978 features each one of those four albums in newly remastered sound, plus Encores 1975-1978, a bonus disc of ten session outtakes (five of which are previously unreleased). Atlantic Crossing, A Night on the Town (1976), Foot Loose and Fancy Free (1977), and Blondes Have More Fun (1978) took the Faces co-founder to new heights of superstardom, with each album earning platinum (or multi-platinum) certifications on the U.S. Stewart moved to the Burbank label with 1975's Atlantic Crossing, inaugurating his most commercially successful period. Records albums collected on a new vinyl box set.

Some guys have all the luck: Rod Stewart is about to see his first four Warner Bros.

Rod steward song written by danny whitton