Balin (album)
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Balin is Marty Balin
Marty Balin
Marty Balin is an American musician. He is best known as the founder and one of the lead singers of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.-Early life:Martyn Buchwald was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...

's 1981 album. Two top-40 singles were released, "Hearts" (a U.S. #8 hit, and also his biggest as a solo artist) and "Atlanta Lady" (U.S. #27). The album rose to #35 on the Billboard
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 charts.

Side One

  1. "Hearts" (Jesse Barish) – 4:32
  2. "You Left Your Mark On Me" (Terry Turrell, Eric J. Burgeson) – 4:40
  3. "Lydia!" (R. Knowles, Marty Balin) – 3:36
  4. "Atlanta Lady" (Jesse Barish) – 3:46

Side Two

  1. "Spotlight" (Terry Turrell, Eric J. Burgeson) – 3:30
  2. "I Do Believe In You" (Richard Page, John Lang, Steve George, Jerry Manfredi) – 3:23
  3. "Elvis and Marilyn" (Leon Russell
    Leon Russell
    Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

    , Kim Fowley
    Kim Fowley
    Kim Vincent Fowley is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s...

    , Dyan Diamond) – 3:05
  4. "Tell Me More" (O. Bokich, J. Whitney) – 3:48
  5. "Music Is the Light" (Jesse Barish) – 4:17

Personnel

  • Marty Balin
    Marty Balin
    Marty Balin is an American musician. He is best known as the founder and one of the lead singers of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.-Early life:Martyn Buchwald was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...

     – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Johnny De Caro – guitar, background vocals
  • Mark Cummings – piano, synthesizer, vocorder, background vocals
  • Billy Lee Lewis – drums, percussion, background vocals
  • Richard Bassil – bass, background vocals

Additional Personnel

  • John Javis – piano on "Spotlight" and "I Do Believe"
  • Neil Larsen – electric piano, synthesizer on "Music Is the Light"
  • Michael Boddicker
    Michael Boddicker
    Michael J. Boddicker , is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. Three times N.A.R.A.S. Most Valuable Player "Synthesizer" and MVP Emeritus, he was awarded a Grammy as a songwriter for Imagination from Flashdance in 1984...

     – vocoder on "You Left Your Mark On Me"
  • John Hug – guitar
  • Ken Watson – cymbals on "Hearts"
  • Bobbye Hall
    Bobbye Hall
    Bobbye Jean Hall Porter is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 22 songs that reached the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, six of those reaching #1.-Early career:...

     – percussion
  • Steve Forman – percussion
  • Bill Champlin
    Bill Champlin
    William Bradford "Bill" Champlin is an American singer, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger, producer, and songwriter. His performance work is principally associated with the bands Chicago and the Sons of Champlin...

     – background vocals on "Hearts"
  • Rick Knowles – background vocals
  • David E Landau – background vocals

Production

  • A Great Pyramid Ltd. Production
  • John Hug – producer, string arrangement and conductor
  • Tom Flye – engineer
  • Clif Jones – assistant engineer
  • Ann Fry – assistant engineer
  • David E. Landau – production coordinator
  • Joe Buchwald – chief executive, manager
  • Recorded at The Village Recorders, Los Angeles, and The Record Plant, Sausalito
  • Mixed at The Record Plant
  • "Elvis and Marilyn" recorded at White Rabbit Studios, Sausalito
  • Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City
  • Greg Calbi – mastering engineer
  • Harry Bluestone – concertmaster
  • Frank De Caro – contractor
  • Bill Burks – art direction
  • Richard Avedon
    Richard Avedon
    Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...

    – Marty Balin photography
  • Tom Gibson – other photography
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