YUI Orta

YUI Orta
Studio album by Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson Band
Released	1989
Recorded	1989
Studio	Power Station, New York City
Genre	Hard Rock
Length	71:11
Label	Mercury
Producer	Bernard Edwards
Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson Band chronology
Shades of Ian Hunter (1988)Shades of Ian Hunter1988 YUI Orta (1990) The Very Best of (1990)The Very Best of1990

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YUI Orta is the seventh solo album of Ian Hunter. The title is a play on the phrase "Why you, I ought to...". Hunter reunites again with longtime collaborator Mick Ronson, as The Hunter Ronson Band. It was intended as a sort of comeback for both men, but the record company did only little promotion and eventually they were dropped from the label (although the record was a minor hit).^[2] There were plans for a follow up, but these were put on hold when Ronson was diagnosed with liver cancer.^[2]
In "Big Time", Hunter borrows the riff from his own song "Once Bitten Twice Shy". In "Tell It Like It Is" Ronson borrows the riff from "Get It On".
The album was heavier in style than Hunter's last two lps of the early 1980s. In 2003, the album was reissued with two bonus tracks.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Ian Hunter except where noted

1. "American Music" – 4:12
2. "The Loner" – 4:47
3. "Women's Intuition" (Hunter, Ronson) – 6:31
4. "Tell It Like It Is" (Hunter, Ronson) – 4:23
5. "Livin' in a Heart" – 4:34
6. "Big Time" – 4:03
7. "Cool" (Hunter, Ronson) – 4:30
8. "Beg a Little Love" (Hunter, Robbie McNasty) – 6:26
9. "Following in your Footsteps" (Hunter, Ronson) – 5:02
10. "Sons 'n' Lovers" – 4:55
11. "Pain" (Donnie Kehr, Hunter) – 4:43
12. "How Much More Can I Take" – 3:48
13. "Sweet Dreamer" (Ronson, Hunter) – 6:28
14. "4th Hour of My Sleep" (Tucker Zimmerman) – 3:08 *
15. "Power of Darkness" (Ronson, Benny Marshall) – 3:32 *

• * Bonus tracks on 2003 CD re-release. This was a re-release of the January 1971 single by Ronno; which consisted of Benny Marshall (vocals), Mick Ronson (guitar), Tony Visconti (bass) and Woody Woodmansey (drums). Tucker Zimmerman was an American friend of Visconti.

Personnel

• Ian Hunter - Lead vocals, Backing vocals; Piano on "Sweet Dreamer"
• Mick Ronson - Guitars, Backing vocals
• Pat Kilbride - Bass
• Tommy Mandel - Keyboard
• Mickey Curry - Drums
• Joe Cerisano - Backing vocals
• Carmella Long - Backing Vocals
• Donnie Kehr - Backing Vocals
• Robbie Alter - Backing Vocals
• Carola Westerlund - Backing Vocals
• Bernard Edwards - Bass on "Women's Intuition"
• Benny Marshall - Vocals on bonus tracks

Technical

• David O'Donnell, Matthew "Boomer" Lamonica, Michael Christopher, Roy Hendrickson - engineer
• Bernard Edwards, Larry Alexander - mixing
• Mitchell Kanner - art director, designer

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