Giuffria is the self-titled debut album from American

United States

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 rock

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 band Giuffria

Giuffria

Giuffria was an American rock band that was formed in 1982 by Gregg Giuffria after his departure from the band Angel, a glam rock/heavy metal band from Washington, D.C..- History of the band :...

 (led by keyboard player Gregg Giuffria), released on MCA Records

MCA Records

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 in 1984, and co-produced by Andy Johns

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. The album's highest peak on the Billboard Hot 100

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 was #26 on March 2, 1985. It was the most successful album from the five released by Giuffria

Giuffria

Giuffria was an American rock band that was formed in 1982 by Gregg Giuffria after his departure from the band Angel, a glam rock/heavy metal band from Washington, D.C..- History of the band :...

, then House of Lords

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, from 1984 to 1992.

In 2007, "Call to the Heart" appeared in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories soundtrack

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, playing on fictional power ballad radio station, Emotion 98.3.

Track listing

• All songs written by David Glen Eisley and Gregg Giuffria, except where noted.

1. "Do Me Right" 4:12
2. "Call to the Heart" 4:37
3. "Don't Tear Me Down" (Eisley, Giuffria, Goldy) 4:54
4. "Dance" (Eisley, Giuffria, Goldy) 4:08
5. "Lonely in Love" 4:53
6. "Trouble Again" 5:24
7. "Turn Me On" (Eisley, Giuffria, Goldy) 4:25
8. "Line of Fire" 4:56
9. "The Awakening" 2:34
10. "Out of the Blue (Too Far Gone)" 5:32

Giuffria

• David Glen Eisley
  David Glen Eisley
  David Glen Eisley is an American actor and musician.Eisley was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Anthony Eisley. While in high school, he played drums for the band Mammoth, an Iron Butterfly cover band. He has been in the AOR bands Giuffria and Dirty White Boy...
  
   - lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica
• Craig Goldy
  Craig Goldy
  Craig Goldy is an American guitarist, mostly notably of the band Dio.Before Dio, he played in the bands Vengeance, Rough Cutt, and Giuffria. He replaced Jake E. Lee in Rough Cutt and was himself replaced by Amir Derakh in this group. Prior to joining Rough Cutt, he had played in the band Vengeance...
  
   - guitars
• Gregg Giuffria
  Gregg Giuffria
  Gregg Giuffria is an American rock keyboardist. He was the keyboardist for heavy metal bands, Angel, and House of Lords, and arena rock band, Giuffria....
  
   - keyboards, backing vocals
• Chuck Wright
  Chuck Wright
  Chuck Wright is an American bassist, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Quiet Riot. He originally joined Quiet Riot in 1982, performing bass on several tracks for their hit album, Metal Health, as well as contributing backing vocals. He left and rejoined Quiet Riot multiple times,...
  
   - bass
• Alan Krigger - drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Rick Bozzo (Former Sabu Bassist)
• Jim Cypherd: Fairlight CMI
  Fairlight CMI
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  programming
• Phil Jost: programming

Production

• Produced By Andy Johns & Gregg Giuffria
• Associate Producer: Lee DiCarlo
• Engineers: Lee DiCarlo, Andy Jones
• Assistant Engineer: Jim Scott
• Mixing: Andy Johns, Jim Scott
• Mastering: Brian Gardner