Company of Strangers (Company of Strangers album)

Company of Strangers

Studio album by Company of Strangers
Released	7 December 1992^[1]
Recorded	1992
Genre	Rock
Length	62mins 37sec
Label	Columbia
Producer	Simon Hussey

"Company of Strangers" is the first and only studio album by Australian supergroup Company of Strangers. The album was recorded in 1992, and first released in Australia in December 1992. It peaked at number 9 on the ARIA Charts and was certified gold.^[2]

Simon Hussey won the ARIA Award for Producer of the year for his work on this album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1993. The album was also nominated for 'Breakthrough Artist' but lost to "Ordinary Angels" by Frente!.^[3]

Track listing

CD (Columbia - 4720812)

"Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star" (Reyne, Scott, Hussey) - 4:41
"Ain't No Angels" (Scott, Hussey) - 4:04
"Motor City (I Get Lost)" (Scott, Hussey) - 4:43
"Old Broadway" (Reyne, Scott, Hussey) - 4:52
"Welcome to the Sounds of Detroit" (Scott, Hussey) -1:08
"Sweet Love" (Scott, Hussey) - 4:37
"Lost in the Rhythm of Love" (Reyne, Scott, Hussey) - 6:05
"Do It All Over Again" (Scott, Hussey) - 4:45
"A Stranger's Place" (Scott, Hussey) - 1:!5
"Loose Ends" (Reyne, Scott, Hussey) - 3:15
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 4:56
"It's Just That Way" (Scott, Hussey) - 5:31
"You Drive Me Crazy" (Scott, Hussey) - 1:05
"Should Have Known Better / Very Light Hell" (Scott, Hussey) - 8:11
"Don't Take My Love Away" (Scott, Hussey) - 4:20

Singles

"Motor City (I Get Lost)" - AUS #26
"Sweet Love" - AUS #21
"Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star - AUS #35
"Baby, You're a Rich Man"

Personnel

Simon Hussey - keyboards, drums, bass synth, backing vocal
Jef Scott - vocals (tracks 1,4,7,8,10,11,12,14,15), electric and acoustic guitars, drums, bass
James Reyne - vocals (tracks 1,3,6,10,11), acoustic guitar
Daryl Braithwaite - vocals (tracks 1,2,3,11)

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[4]	9
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[5]	18

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)	Position
Australian Albums Chart^[6]	44

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)^[2]	Gold	35,000^{^}
^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

Trivia

James Reyne recorded an acoustic version of "Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star" for his 2007 album Ghost Ships.
"Motor City (I Get Lost)" appeared on Reyne's upcoming Live CD/DVD - One Night in Melbourne.
"Should Have Known Better / Very Light Hell" is listed on the track listing as 14a and 14b, rather than simply 14.
Peter Mitchell is a top rating news presenter for Channel Seven in Melbourne.
Peter Mitchell also took many of the photos that appear on the C.D booklet.^[7]
All tracks on the album cross-fade / over-lap with the following / previous track.

References

↑ "New Release Summary – Product Available from: 7/12/92 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 149)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 19 July 2016.
1 2 "1993 ARIA ALBUMS CHART". www.ariacharts.com.au. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ "Winners by Year 1993". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
↑ "Australiancharts.com – Company of Strangers – Company of Strangers". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ "Charts.org.nz – Company of Strangers – Company of Strangers". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ "1993 ARIA ALBUMS CHART". www.ariacharts.com.au. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ actual cd booklet credits

James Reyne
James Reyne discography
Studio albums	James Reyne (1987) Hard Reyne (1989) Electric Digger Dandy (1991) The Whiff of Bedlam (1994) Design for Living (1999) Speedboats for Breakfast (2004) ...And the Horse You Rode In On (2005) Every Man a King (2007) Ghost Ships (2007) TCB (2010) Thirteen (2012)
Live albums	Live in Rio (1996) One Night in Melbourne (2007) Live '99 (2015) All the Hits Live (2015)
Compilations	The Best of James Reyne (1992) Reckless: 1979–1995 (2000) The Definitive Collection (2002) The Essential James Reyne (2008) The Anthology (2014)
Extended Plays	“James Reyne and the Magnificent Few” (2015)
Singles	"Fall of Rome" (1987) "Hammerhead" (1987) "Rip it Up" (1987) "Motor's Too Fast" (1988) "House of Cards" (1989) "One More River" (1989) "Slave" (1991) "Any Day Above Ground" (1991) "Way Out West" (with James Blundell) (1992) "Red Light Avenue" (1994)
Television	Return to Eden (1983) What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) State Coroner (1998) The Postcard Bandit (2003)
Related articles	Australian Crawl Australian Crawl discography Company of Strangers (group) Company of Strangers Daryl Braithwaite David Reyne Jaime Robbie Reyne Order of Australia

Daryl Braithwaite
Discography
Studio albums	Out on the Fringe (1979) Edge (1988) Rise (1990) Taste the Salt (1993) Snapshot (2005) Forever the Tourist (2013)
Live albums	The Lemon Tree (2008)
Compilations	Daryl Braithwaite... Best Of (1978) Higher Than Hope (1991) Six Moons: The Best of 1988–1994 (1994) Afterglow: The Essential Collection 1971–1994 (2002) The Essential Daryl Braithwaite (2007)
Singles	"You're My World" (1974) "Afterglow of Your Love" (1977) "As the Days Go By" (1988) "All I Do" (1988) "One Summer" (1989) "Let Me Be" (1989) "Rise" (1990) "The Horses" (1991) "Higher Than Hope" (1991) "The World as It Is" (1993) "Barren Ground" (1994) "How Can I Be Sure" (1994)
Related articles	Sherbet Sherbet discography Company of Strangers Company of Strangers James Reyne "You're Not Alone" “Contact"

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.