Best Kept Secret is the fourth album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

. It was released in 1983 on EMI Records

EMI Records

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Easton's first three albums had all been recorded in London

London

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 with producer Christopher Neil

Christopher Neil

Christopher Neil is a British record producer, songwriter, singer and actor.He has worked with Celine Dion, a-ha, Dollar, Paul Nicholas, Kim Criswell, Morten Harket, Mike + The Mechanics, Johnny Logan, Marillion, The Moody Blues, The Other Ones, Paul Carrack, Rod Stewart, Gerry Rafferty, Cher,...

. With Best Kept Secret Easton's homebase shifted to the United States - the singer having been more consistently popular there than in her native UK - Best Kept Secret being first album to be recorded in the US (prior to this album Easton had cut the #6 hit duet with Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

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: "We've Got Tonight", in her first US recording session).

The producers of Best Kept Secret: Greg Mathieson and Trevor Veitch

Trevor Veitch

Trevor Veitch is a Canadian musician/record producer who has worked behind the scenes on many pop trends from the 1960s to the present. He is mostly known for his involvement in the popular 60s folk rock group, 3's a Crowd...

 had previously worked with Laura Branigan

Laura Branigan

Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control"...

 and Best Kept Secret alternated dance tracks in the Eurodisco

Euro disco

Euro disco is an all encompassing colloquial term used to describe a variety of European electronic dance music that first originated from disco in the 1970s; incorporating elements of pop, New Wave and rock into disco-like continuous dance atmosphere...

 mode of Branigan's signature tune "Gloria" with ballads. The album's lead single was the dance track "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)

Telefone is a dance/pop single recorded by Scottish singer Sheena Easton, the first single released from her fourth album, 1983's Best Kept Secret....

" which became Easton's third solo hit to reach the US Top Ten with a #9 peak on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. The second single was the ballad "Almost Over You" (#25) and another dance track "Devil in a Fast Car" was subsequently issued as a single to reach #79.

Best Kept Secret peaked at #33 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart with a chart duration of 38 weeks. Neither the album nor its singles had high chart impact in the UK, Best Kept Secret charting there at #99 while "Telefone..." and "Almost Over You" had respective UK peaks of #84 and #89.

In Canada both the Best Kept Secret album and "Telefone..." single were certified Gold by the CRIA.

Best Kept Secret was reissued in 2000 on One Way Records, adding the hit duet "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

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Trivia

French-Canadian singer Véronique Béliveau

Véronique Béliveau

Véronique Béliveau , originally Nicole Monique, is a Canadian actress and pop/rock singer who was nominated for a 1987 Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year. Her first full-length album was Prends-moi comme je suis in 1977...

 recorded a cover of "She's In Love (With Her Radio)" in French, entitled "Je suis fidèle" which reached number 1 status Québec in 1983.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" – 3:44
   (Mathieson, Veitch)
2. "I Like the Fright" – 3:49
   (Bliss, Kipner)
3. "Almost over You" – 3:41
   (Kimball, Richardson)
4. "Devil in a Fast Car" – 4:01
   (Kimball, Richardson)
5. "Don't Leave Me This Way" – 4:57
   (Pennington)

Side Two

1. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" – 4:31
   (Emmanuel, Kipner)
2. "(She's in Love) With Her Radio" – 3:36
   (McBride, Roth)
3. "Just One Smile" – 4:48
   (Newman)
4. "Sweet Talk" – 3:49
   (Kimball)
5. "Best Kept Man" – 3:48
   (Shefts)

CD Bonus tracks:

1. "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" [Extended]  – 6:11
   
2. "Wish You Were Here Tonight" – 3:58
   
3. "I Don't Need Your Word" – 3:20
   
4. "We've Got Tonight" – 3:50
   
5. "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" [Dance Mix] – 4:19