Sweetheart's Dance is a 1994 album from American country music

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...

 singer Pam Tillis

Pam Tillis

Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis....

. It is her highest ranking album on the Billboard charts, at number 6.

This album produced five singles: "When You Walk in the Room" (a cover of a Jackie DeShannon song), "Spilled Perfume", "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)", "I Was Blown Away" and "In Between Dances". Respectively, these reached #2, #5, #1, #16, and #3 on the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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 charts. "I Was Blown Away" was withdrawn from radio after the Oklahoma City bombing

Oklahoma City bombing

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 in 1995.

Track listing

1. "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
   Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
   "Mi Vida Loca " is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Pam Tillis. It was released in November 1994 as the third single from the album, Sweetheart's Dance. She co-wrote the song with Jess Leary, and co-produced it with Steve Fishell...
   
   " (Pam Tillis, Jess Leary) – 2:51
2. "Sweetheart's Dance" (Doug Gill) – 3:39
3. "Calico Plains" (Matraca Berg
   Matraca Berg
   Matraca Maria Berg is an American country music singer and songwriter. She has released five albums: three for RCA Records, one for Rising Tide Records and one for Dualtone Records, and has charted in the top 40 of the U.S. Billboard country charts with "Baby, Walk On" and "The Things You Left...
   
   , Mike Noble) – 3:47
4. "When You Walk in the Room
   When You Walk In The Room
   "When You Walk in the Room" is a song written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon, first released by her in 1963 but covered by many artists. The lyrics of the song attempt to detail the singer's emotions when in the presence of the person he or she loves...
   
   " (Jackie DeShannon
   Jackie DeShannon
   Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.- Life and early career :...
   
   ) – 2:44
5. "Spilled Perfume
   Spilled Perfume
   "Spilled Perfume" is the title of a song written by American country music artist Pam Tillis along with Dean Dillon, and recorded by Tillis. The song was released as the lead single from her 1994 album, Sweetheart's Dance.-Personnel:...
   
   " (Tillis, Dean Dillon
   Dean Dillon
   Dean Dillon is an American country music artist. Between 1982 and 1993, Dillon recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts. Although he has not charted since 1993, Dillon has continued to write several hit songs for other artists, most...
   
   ) – 3:53
6. "I Was Blown Away" (Layng Martine, Jr.
   Layng Martine, Jr.
   Layng Martine, Jr. is a singer and songwriter. He is notable for writing several songs, including "Rub It In", a Number One hit for Billy "Crash" Craddock in 1974, which became the long-running TV commercial "Plug It In" for Johnson & Johnson's Glade Plug-ins air freshening product...
   
   ) – 2:45
7. "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To" (Roger Brown, Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers is an American country music artist. After several years of touring the United States in his family's band, Sellers joined the road band of Ricky Skaggs. By 1997, he was signed to a recording contract with BNA Records, for whom he recorded two studio albums: 1997's I'm Your Man and...
   
   ) – 2:57
8. "In Between Dances
   In Between Dances
   "In Between Dances" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1995, it was the fifth single from the album Sweetheart's Dance...
   
   " (Craig Bickhardt
   Craig Bickhardt
   Craig Bickhardt is an American country music singer and songwriter. His musical career includes co-writing credits for The Judds, Steve Wariner, Kathy Mattea and others. He was also a member of S-K-B, formerly S-K-O, after Paul Overstreet exited that band, and he has released three studio albums...
   
   , Barry Alfonso) – 3:21
9. "Better Off Blue" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge
   Walt Aldridge
   Walt Aldridge is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter...
   
   ) – 2:52
10. "Til All the Lonely's Gone" (Tillis, Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...
    
    , John Scott Sherrill
    John Scott Sherrill
    John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. He has written songs for such artists as John Anderson, Brooks & Dunn, Jimmy Buffett , Johnny Lee, George Strait, Steve Wariner, Patty Loveless, Josh Turner, Waylon Jennings, Alison Krauss, Peter...
    
    ) – 3:55
    • duet vocals: Mel Tillis
      Mel Tillis
      Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....
      
      

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

• John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson is a US musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone...
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An 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...
  
  , mandolin
  Mandolin
  A 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...
  
   (all tracks); acoustic guitar solo on "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)"
• Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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  , steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
   – steel guitar
• Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...
  
   – steel guitar, electric rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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  , Dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  
• Brent Mason
  Brent Mason
  Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...
  
   – electric guitar
• Bob DiPiero
  Bob DiPiero
  Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...
  
   – 12-string guitar on "When You Walk in the Room"
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Sam Bush
  Sam Bush
  Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...
  
   – fiddle
  Fiddle
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• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Bill Monroe
  Bill Monroe
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   – mandolin solo on "Til All the Lonely's Gone"
• Steve Nathan – piano
• Bobby Ogdin – synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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• John Barlow Jarvis – piano
  Piano
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  , accordion
  Accordion
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• Mike Brignardello, Willie Weeks – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Milton Sledge – drums
  Drum kit
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• Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion
• Terry McMillan
  Terry Lee McMillan
  Terry Lee McMillan was an American country musician who played harmonica and percussion. In 1973, he became a member of Eddy Raven's band in Nashville, and worked with Raven until 1975. He then started working with Chet Atkins playing harmonica with his touring show. Later, he toured with Jerry...
  
   – percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  
• Harry Stinson – percussion
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
  
  , Kim Richey
  Kim Richey
  Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category, her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts...
  
   - vocal backing on "When You Walk in the Room"
• Ashley Cleveland
  Ashley Cleveland
  Ashley Cleveland is an American singer/songwriter perhaps best known as a background vocalist and Grammy-winning gospel singer. Ashley Cleveland was born in Knoxville, Tennessee...
  
  , Vicki Hampton, Liana Manis - vocal backing on "Better Off Blue"
• Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  Vincent 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...
  
   - vocal backing on "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To"
• Mary Ann Kennedy
  Mary Ann Kennedy (singer)
  Mary Ann Kennedy is an American country music songwriter. In her career, she has been a member of the groups Calamity Jane and Kennedy Rose, both times pairing with fellow songwriter Pam Rose. Kennedy's co-writing credits include the Grammy Award-nominated songs "Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her...
  
   - vocal backing on "Spilled Perfume"
• Suzy Ragsdale - vocal backing on "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" and "I Was Blown Away"
• Harry Stinson - vocal backing on "Sweetheart's Dance"
• Cindy Tillis Westmoreland, Connie Tillis, Mel Tillis Jr. - vocal backing on "'Til All the Lonely's Gone"

Production

• Produced By Steve Fishell & Pam Tillis
• Engineered
  Audio engineering
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   By Graham Lewis & Mike Poole, with assistance by Tony Collins, Eric Elwell, Steve Henning & Ed Simonton
• Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
   By Chuck Ainlay, with assistance by Graham Lewis
• Digital Editing: Don Cobb & Carlos Grier
• Mastered By Denny Purcell

Chart performance

Chart (1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
U.S. Billboard 200	51