| The Seventh One | ||||
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| Studio album by Toto | ||||
| Released | March 1, 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1987-88 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, soft rock, AOR, arena rock | |||
| Length | 53:40 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | George Massenburg, Bill Payne, Toto | |||
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The Seventh One is Toto's seventh studio album. It was released in 1988, and became the best-received Toto album since Toto IV. This is the second and last album to feature Joseph Williams on lead vocals. He was fired after the Seventh One world tour due to loss of voice attributed to drug abuse.[1] The single "Pamela" reached number 22 in the Billboard charts.[2] The title track, "The Seventh One," is only featured on the Japanese version of the album. It was also released on some compilations on a later date.
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| Allmusic | [3] |
Though critically well-received, The Seventh One was the first Toto album since Turn Back to have less than two charting hits. According to Allmusic, it was a combination of this fact and the "anonymous" sound of the album's songs[3] which led to The Seventh One becoming the lowest charting Toto album on the Billboard Charts up to that point.[4] Meanwhile the band and witnesses cite lack of promo and the fading relationship with Sony/CBS Records at the time as the main reason for its chart performance. As the industry was changing many bands and musicians were abandoned by record companies and replaced by the marketing of so called "fast cash products", to reduce production costs and encourage an "open music industry" at all costs that became apparent in the following decades. [5] Nonetheless the sound and songs of the album remain remembered and continue to receive airplay to this date. The Seventh One remains a trademark Toto album and era what many consider Toto's finest hour in line-up and signature sound, as well as an exceptional album in general.
1 Only available on Japanese copies of the album.
Tracks 1, 2 & 7 Copyright Hudmar Publishing Inc./Jogi Wimball Music. Tracks 3, 9 & 10 Copyright Rehtakul Veets Music/California Phase Music. Tracks 4 & 6 Copyright Rehtakul Veets Music/Hudmar Publishing. Track 5 Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Rising Storm Music. Track 8 Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Rehtakul Veets Music/Texascity Music. Track 11 Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Rehtakul Veets Music/White Oak Music/Jogi Wimball Music.
and as guest musician:
"Pamela"
"You Got Me"
"Anna"
"Stop Loving You"
"Mushanga"
"Stay Away"
"Straight For The Heart"
"Only The Children"
"A Thousand Years"
"These Chains"
"Home Of The Brave"
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