Geno (Dexys Midnight Runners album)
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Geno is a compilation album
of singles and b-sides by Dexys Midnight Runners
, released in March 1983. The album contains songs released between 1979 and 1981. This material was also made available on 1996's It Was Like This.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
of singles and b-sides by Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. They are best known for their songs "Come On Eileen" and "Geno", both of which went No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart....
, released in March 1983. The album contains songs released between 1979 and 1981. This material was also made available on 1996's It Was Like This.
Track listing
- "GenoGeno (song)"Geno" is a song by Dexys Midnight Runners which reached #1 on the UK singles chart for two weeks in May 1980. Written by Kevin 'Al' Archer and Kevin Rowland, it was band's second single and their first number one...
" (Al Archer, Kevin RowlandKevin RowlandKevin Rowland is an English singer-songwriter and former frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners, which had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen".-Career:...
) – 3:28 - "Plan B" (Jim Paterson, Rowland) – 2:36
- "Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache" (Denny Randell, Sandy LinzerSandy Linzer and Denny RandellSandy Linzer and Denny Randell are American songwriters who wrote numerous pop and rock songs in the 1960s and 1970s, generally working together and with Bob Crewe...
) – 3:24 - "Dance Stance" (Rowland) – 3:41
- "The Horse" (J. James) – 2:22
- "There, There, My Dear" (Archer, Rowland) – 3:15
- "Keep It" (Archer, Blythe) – 3:45
- "One Way Love" (Russell, Meade) – 3:10
- "I'm Just Looking" (Blythe, Rowland) – 4:39
- "Soul FingerSoul Finger"Soul Finger" is the first single released by R&B group The Bar-Kays. It was issued by Stax Records on the Volt Records label on April 14, 1967....
" (Jimmy King, Phalon JonesPhalon JonesPhalon Jones was an American Soul and R&B musician.Jones was a saxophonist for The Bar-Kays musical group, which recorded with and also played backup for Otis Redding. James Alexander has described Jones as "the ladies' man" of the group...
, Carl Cunningham, Ben Cauley, Ronnie CaldwellRonnie CaldwellRonald Louis Caldwell was an American Soul and R&B musician.A keyboard player, Caldwell was the only white member the Bar-Kays musical group based in Memphis, Tennessee. The group recorded with and also accompanied singer Otis Redding...
, James Alexander) – 2:13