View from the House is a studio album

Studio album

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 by Kim Carnes

Kim Carnes

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, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....

). The album marked a return to her early country music

Country music

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 roots.

The album spawned two minor hit singles, "Crazy in Love" and "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness", both charting on the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks at #68 and #70 respectively. The pop oriented "Crazy in Love" also made it to #13 on the Adult Contemporary

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

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 chart. In the UK, "Just to Spend Tonight with You" was released as the album's lead single instead.

Track listing

1. "Brass & Batons" (Kim Carnes, Donna Weiss) – 5:19
2. "Just to Spend Tonight with You" (Carnes, Weiss) – 4:48
3. "Heartbreak Radio" (Troy Seals
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   , Frankie Miller
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   ) – 3:16
4. "Crazy in Love" (Even Stevens, Randy McCormick) – 3:52
5. "If You Don't Want My Love" (John Prine
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   , Phil Spector
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   ) – 3:15
6. "Willie and the Hand Jive" (Johnny Otis
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   ) – 4:05
7. "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" (John Prine) – 3:26
8. "Blood from the Bandit" (Carnes, Weiss) – 3:17
9. "Fantastic Fire of Love" (Carnes) – 4:12
10. "Crimes of the Heart" (Carnes, Weiss) – 3:07

Personnel

• Bill Cuomo – All Synthesizers & Drum Programming (10), Recorder (10), Co-producer (10)
• Bill Dooley – Additional Engineer
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – Acoustic & electric guitars
• Bob Bullock – Recorder, Overdubs, Mixer
• Bob Vogt – Second Engineer
• Bruce Hornsby
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   – Accordion (1)
• Chuck Ainlay
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   – Mixer
• Craig Hull – Electric guitar & Slide guitar
• Craig Krampf
  Craig Krampf
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   – Drums, Percussion, Washboard (3)
• Dave Ellingson – Harmony Vocals (6,9)
• George Marino – Master
• Jessie Noble – Project Coordinator
• Jimmy Bowen
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   – Mixer, Co-producer
• John Cascella – Accordion (2,3,7)
• John Jarvis – Acoustic Piano & Synthesizers
• Josh Leo
  Josh Leo
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   – Electric guitar
• Kim Carnes – Vocals, Synthesizer (1), Co-producer
• Kirk "Jellyroll" Johnson – Harmonica
• Leland Sklar
  Leland Sklar
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   – Bass
• Lyle Lovett
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   – Harmony vocals (7)
• Mark J. Coddington – Second Engineer
• Mark O´Connor – Fiddle, Mandolin & Mandola
• Niko Bolas
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   – Mixer
• Peter Nash – Photography
• Richard Bosworth – Additional overdubs
• Russ Martin – Overdubs, Second Engineer
• Simon Levy – Art Direction
• Spence Chrislu – Second Engineer
• Steve Wariner – Harmony vocals (5)
• Sue McGonigle – Production Assistant
• 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...
  
  – Harmony vocals (3)
• Virginia Team Design/Jerry Joyner – Design

Chart performance

Chart (1988)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	39