Home Again (Judy Collins album)

Home Again is an album by Judy Collins, released in 1984 by Elektra/Asylum Records.

Home Again
Studio album by
Judy Collins
Released1984
Recorded1983, 1984
Length42:03
LabelElektra
ProducerDave Grusin, Larry Rosen, Michael Masser
Judy Collins chronology
Times of Our Lives
(1982)		 Home Again
(1984)		 Amazing Grace
(1985)
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Collins had completed the tracks intended for her twentieth album release by Christmas of 1983: however Elektra president Bruce Lundvall recommended that she additionally record the Michael Masser/ Gerry Goffin composition "Home Again": Collins' first two album releases of the 1980s had evinced a marked decline in her popularity and Lundvall hoped that Collins, a product of the folk music boom, might score a career-boosting C&W hit with "Home Again" were she to duet with an established C&W star. Eventually T.G. Sheppard was recruited to partner Collins on "Home Again" with the track being cut in the summer of 1984 - that being the earliest that Michael Masser's schedule permitted his producing the session with Collins and Sheppard - and the Home Again album and its title cut being released in September 1984.[1][2] The "Home Again" single would in fact prove a mild C&W chart success stalling at #57 and the Home Again album became Collins' first to fall short of the Billboard 200 album chart since her first two albums, issued in respectively 1962 and 1963, signalling Collins' departure from Elektra, who had issued all twenty of her albums.

Track listing
  1. "Only You" (Vince Clarke) – 3:22
  2. "Sweetheart on Parade" (Elton John, Gary Osborne) – 4:42
  3. "Everybody Works in China" (Henry Gross) – 4:24
  4. "Yellow Kimono" (Graham Lyle) – 4:58
  5. "From Where I Stand" (Amanda McBroom) – 3:36
  6. "Home Again" (duet with T. G. Sheppard) (Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser) – 3:36
  7. "Shoot First" (Collins) – 6:10
  8. "Don't Say Love" (Randy Goodrum, Brent Maher) – 4:10
  9. "Dream On" (Collins) – 4:23
  10. "The Best is Yet To Come" (Clifford T. Ward) – 2:42

Personnel

References
  1. Boston Globe 21 September 1984 "Judy Collins Balances Taste & Comfort: home reflects her philosophy" by Susan Wilson pp.41,49
  2. Pittsburgh Post Gazette 3 December 1984 "Judy Collins: Always Looking For a Song" by Mary Campbell p.23
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