Foster & Lloyd (album)
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Foster & Lloyd is the eponymous debut of the American country music
duo Foster & Lloyd
. Commercially, It was their most successful album producing three top-ten singles, "Crazy Over You" (#4), "Sure Thing" (#8), and "What Do You Want from Me This Time?" (#6). The other single, "Texas in 1880", peaked at #18 on the Hot Country Songs
chart. The album itself peaked at #33 on the Billboard
Top Country Albums chart.
"Crazy Over You", while written by Foster & Lloyd, was first recorded by Ricky Van Shelton
and released a month earlier on his debut album, Wild-Eyed Dream
. His version was not released as a single.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
duo Foster & Lloyd
Foster & Lloyd
Foster & Lloyd is an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd . Founded in 1986, the duo recorded three albums for RCA Records, in addition to charting nine singles on the Billboard country charts. The highest-peaking of these was their debut single...
. Commercially, It was their most successful album producing three top-ten singles, "Crazy Over You" (#4), "Sure Thing" (#8), and "What Do You Want from Me This Time?" (#6). The other single, "Texas in 1880", peaked at #18 on the Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
chart. The album itself peaked at #33 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top Country Albums chart.
"Crazy Over You", while written by Foster & Lloyd, was first recorded by Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton is a currently retired American country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
and released a month earlier on his debut album, Wild-Eyed Dream
Wild-Eyed Dream
Wild-Eyed Dream is the title of the debut album of Country Music artist Ricky Van Shelton. The first singles released from the album from 1986 to 1988 were "Wild-Eyed Dream" and "Crime of Passion", which charted at #24 and #7, respectively. The last three singles, "Somebody Lied", "Life Turned Her...
. His version was not released as a single.
Track listing
- Songs written by Bill Lloyd and Radney Foster except "Token of Love", written by Bill Lloyd and "Texas in 1880" and "You Can Come Cryin' to Me", written by Radney Foster.
- "Turn Around" - 4:22
- "Crazy Over YouCrazy Over You"Crazy Over You" is the title of the debut single of American country music duo Foster & Lloyd. It was co-written by the duo and released on their eponymous debut album in 1987 . It was their most successful single, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1987...
" - 4:35 - "What Do You Want from Me This TimeWhat Do You Want from Me This Time"What Do You Want from Me This Time" is a single written and recorded by American country music duo Foster & Lloyd. Released in 1988, it was the fourth single from the album Foster & Lloyd. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
" - 3:17 - "Token of Love" – 2:37
- "Sure ThingSure Thing (Foster & Lloyd song)"Sure Thing" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music duo Foster & Lloyd. It was released as the second single from their eponymous debut album in 1987 . It reached #8 on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and the Canadian RPM country Tracks chart in 1987.-Chart...
" - 3:23 - "Hard to Say No" - 2:40
- "Part I Know by Heart" – 3:24
- "Texas in 1880" - 3:58
- "You Can Come Cryin' to Me" - 5:14
Album
| Chart (1987) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 33 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
CAN Country RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
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| 1987 | "Crazy Over You" | 4 | — |
| "Sure Thing" | 8 | 8 | |
| 1988 | "Texas in 1880" | 18 | — |
| "What Do You Want from Me This Time?" | 6 | * | |
Foster & Lloyd
- Radney FosterRadney FosterRadney Foster is an American Texas Country artist. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his debut in 1986 alongside Bill Lloyd in the duo Foster & Lloyd...
- lead vocals, background vocals, guitar - Bill Lloyd - lead vocals, harmony vocals, guitar, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
Musicians
- Bruce Bouton - pedal steel guitarPedal steel guitarThe pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
, lap steel guitarLap steel guitarThe lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard.... - John Cowan - harmony vocals
- Vince GillVince GillVincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
- electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker... - Ed Seay - harmony vocals, engineer
- Tommy Wells - drums
- Glenn WorfGlenn WorfGlenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
- bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
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