Amanda Marshall (album)
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Amanda Marshall is the 1995 debut album by Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 singer Amanda Marshall
Amanda Marshall
Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian pop-rock singer.She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother...

. The album peaked at #4 on the Canadian Albums Chart
Canadian Albums Chart
The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...

 and has also been certified Diamond by the CRIA
Canadian Recording Industry Association
Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada...

 with over 1,000,000 copies sold in Canada making it Marshall's best-selling album of her career. The album also made an impact on the U.S. album charts peaking at #156 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 and at #6 on the Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...

. In the UK the album peaked at #47 on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

.

Track listing

  1. "Let It Rain" (Kristen Hall
    Kristen Hall
    Kristen Alyson Hall is an American folk rock singer/songwriter. In 2002, she was a founding member of the country music group Sugarland. She left the group in December 2005.-Lawsuit:...

    ) – 4:33
  2. "Birmingham
    Birmingham (Amanda Marshall song)
    Birmingham is a 1996 song performed by Amanda Marshall from her self-titled debut album. The song was her most successful single on the Canadian Singles Chart, reaching #3, and her only song to reach the United States Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #43....

    " (Dean McTaggart
    Dean McTaggart
    Dean McTaggart is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer. He was lead vocalist in the Canadian band The Arrows from 1981 to 1986. The Arrows produced two albums and one EP and had popular hits in Canada including "Meet Me in the Middle", "Say It Isn't True","Heart of the City" and "Talk...

    , David Tyson
    David Tyson
    David Tyson is a Canadian rock music producer and songwriter. He is best known for co-writing Alannah Myles' 1990 #1 hit "Black Velvet" and producing her debut album. He also co-wrote 3 hit songs from Amanda Marshall's self-titled 1995 debut album.Tyson has won 3 Juno Awards for his work,...

    , Gerald O'Brien) – 5:21
  3. "Fall from Grace" (Marc Jordan
    Marc Jordan
    Marc Jordan , is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor. Covering a wide variety of genres, he has written songs for a number of well-known artists, including Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Cher, Bette Midler, and Josh Groban...

    , Kim Bullard) – 4:20
  4. "Dark Horse
    Dark Horse (Amanda Marshall song)
    "Dark Horse" is the title of a song co-written and originally recorded by Canadian pop singer Amanda Marshall. It was the fifth single from her 1995 self-titled debut album...

    " (David Tyson, Amanda Marshall, Dean McTaggart) – 5:37
  5. "Beautiful Goodbye" (David Tyson, Chistopher Ward
    Christopher Ward (songwriter)
    Christopher William Ward is a Canadian songwriter and broadcaster, known as a former long-standing on-air personality at MuchMusic, Canada's music video network, where he and J.D. Roberts were among the first video jockeys in 1984...

    ) – 5:17
  6. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Amanda Marshall) – 4:19
  7. "Last Exit to Eden" (Dean McTaggart, David Tyson) – 5:24
  8. "Trust Me (This is Love)" (Dean McTaggart, David Tyson) – 4:59
  9. "Let's Get Lost" (Amanda Marshall, Christopher Ward) – 4:14
  10. "Promises" (John Capek, Marc Jordan) – 5:22

Musicians

  • Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian pop-rock singer.She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother...

    : Vocals, Background Vocals
  • Kenny Aronoff
    Kenny Aronoff
    Kenny Aronoff is an American drummer. He has played drums for many musicians, including John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Belinda Carlisle, Elton John, John Fogerty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Meat Loaf, The BoDeans, Gregg Alexander, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tony Iommi, Jon Bon Jovi, Vasco Rossi, Cinderella and...

    : Drums, Percussion
  • Leland Sklar
    Leland Sklar
    Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...

    : Bass
  • Tommy Byrnes: Electric Guitars
  • David Wipper: Acoustic Guitars, Mandolin
  • Bob Mann: Acoustic Guitar
  • Diana DeWitt: Background Vocals
  • David Tyson: Background Vocals
  • Tom "T-Bone" Wolk: Accordion
  • Peter Kent: Violin
  • Erica Duke-Kirkpatrick: Cello
  • Louis Taylor: Soprano Saxophone
  • David Tyson: Keyboards, Programming
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