Wild Seed
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Wild Seed is a 1995 album by Norwegian
singer Morten Harket
. It is his first solo album to be sung in English.
It was produced by Chris Neil (a-ha, Mike + The Mechanics, Céline Dion).
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
singer Morten Harket
Morten Harket
Morten Harket is a Norwegian musician, best known as the lead singer of the Norwegian synthpop/rock band A-ha, which released nine studio albums and topped the charts in several countries after their breakthrough hit "Take on Me" in 1985. A-ha disbanded in 2010. Harket has also released four solo...
. It is his first solo album to be sung in English.
It was produced by Chris Neil (a-ha, Mike + The Mechanics, Céline Dion).
Track listing
- "A Kind of Christmas Card" (Words: H. Rem, Music: M. Harket) - 4:06
- "Spanish Steps" (Words: M. Harket/H. Rem/T. Flakne, Music: T. Flakne) - 4:07
- "Half in Love, Half in Hate" (Words: O.S. Olsen, Music: M. Harket) - 4:45
- "Brodsky Tune" (Words: J. Brodsky, Music: M. Harket) - 4:23
- "Wild Seed" (Words and Music: M. Harket) - 4:48
- "Los Angeles" (Words: H. Rem, Music: M. Harket) - 4:26
- "East Timor" (Words: H.K. Dahl/H. Rem/M. Harket, Music: G. Kolbu) - 4:12
- "Lay Me Down Tonight" (Words: H. Rem/M. Harket, Music: M. Harket) - 2:17
- "Tell Me What You See" (Words: H. Rem/M. Harket, Music: M. Harket) - 4:50
- "Stay" (Words: H. Rem/M. Harket, Music: M. Harket) - 3:29
- "Lord" (Words: H. Rem, Music: M. Harket) - 3:46
- "Ready to Go Home" (Words: A. Gold/G. Gouldman, Music: A. Gold/G. Gouldman) - 4:33
Miscellanea
- When Canadian singer Céline DionCeline DionCéline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
heard this album, she decided to use the same recording studio in Oslo as used for this record. - This is the biggest-selling a-ha solo release to date.
- A Kind Of Christmas Card was released as a promo single in Brazil, with moderated success.
- Some charts of "A Kind of Christmas Card": #1 Norway, #18 Mexico, #53 UK
- The Japanese edition has a cover of "A Change is Gonna Come"A Change Is Gonna Come (song)"A Change Is Gonna Come" is a 1964 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label shortly after his death in late 1964. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the...
as a bonus track. - The song "A Kind of Christmas Card" has been covered by Marcos Marin by Projeto Set Band in 2005.