Kaleidoscope World is the second studio album by the British band Swing Out Sister

Swing Out Sister

Swing Out Sister are a British "sophisti-pop" group best known worldwide for their 1986 song "Breakout". Other hits include "Surrender", "Twilight World", "Waiting Game" and a remake of "Am I the Same Girl?" Though album sales in the U.S. and Europe have levelled off since the early 1990s, the...

. It was released in 1989 and features the singles "Where In The World?" (UK #47), "You On My Mind" (a UK #28 hit), "Forever Blue" (UK #80), and "Waiting Game". With the addition of an orchestra, this album featured a more sophisticated, easy listening

Easy listening

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/retro sound than their previous synth-oriented debut album, 1987's It's Better to Travel. The album reached #9 on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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.

The album was notable for being released on the newly reactivated Polygram subsidiary label Fontana Records

Fontana Records

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, which had been a highly successful record label in the 1960s (something reflected in the stylised cover art for Kaleidoscope World). The album also features solos from the veteran harmonica

Harmonica

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 player Tommy Reilly

Tommy Reilly

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. Original band member Martin Jackson

Martin Jackson

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 left Swing Out Sister during the making of this album. Although the liner notes give "special thanks to Martin Jackson" and his co-writing credits appear on the songs "Tainted" and "Between Strangers", they also point out that "Swing Out Sister are Corinne Drewery

Corinne Drewery

Corinne Drewery is the lead singer of the pop music band, Swing Out Sister.-Early life:Drewery grew up in Nottingham and the Lincolnshire village of Authorpe and went to South Reston Primary School, then Monks' Dyke High School and King Edward VI Grammar School in nearby Louth, then Lincoln College...

 and Andy Connell

Andy Connell

Andrew John "Andy" Connell is an English musician and composer. Along with Corinne Drewery, he is part of the duo that makes up Swing Out Sister....

." Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

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 arranged and conducted the orchestra for "Forever Blue" and "Precious Words."

Track listing

LP & Cassette Version

1. "You On My Mind
   You on My Mind
   "You on My Mind" is a song by the British pop group Swing Out Sister. It was the lead-off single from the group's second album, Kaleidoscope World...
   
   " - (3:32) (Andy Connell
   Andy Connell
   Andrew John "Andy" Connell is an English musician and composer. Along with Corinne Drewery, he is part of the duo that makes up Swing Out Sister....
   
   /Corinne Drewery
   Corinne Drewery
   Corinne Drewery is the lead singer of the pop music band, Swing Out Sister.-Early life:Drewery grew up in Nottingham and the Lincolnshire village of Authorpe and went to South Reston Primary School, then Monks' Dyke High School and King Edward VI Grammar School in nearby Louth, then Lincoln College...
   
   /Paul Staveley O'Duffy
   Paul Staveley O'Duffy
   Paul O’Duffy is a British record producer, composer, mixer. He is best known for producing Swing Out Sister's Grammy-nominated multi-platinum debut album, for his BMI nomination as 'Producer of the Year' in 1987, and work with John Barry and other film score producing...
   
   )
2. "Where in the World" - (5:33) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)
3. "Forever Blue" - (4:17) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)
4. "Heart For Hire" - (4:25) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)
5. "Tainted" - (3:59) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/Martin Jackson)
6. "Waiting Game" - (4:15) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)
7. "Precious Words" - (4:13) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)
8. "Masquerade" - (4:46) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)
9. "Between Strangers" - (4:06) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/M. Jackson)
10. "The Kaleidoscope Affair" - (3:09) (A. Connell/C. Drewery)

CD Version

1. "You On My Mind" - (3:32)
2. "Where in the World" - (5:33)
3. "Forever Blue" - (4:17)
4. "Heart For Hire" - (4:25)
5. "Tainted" - (3:59)
6. "Waiting Game" - (4:15)
7. "Precious Words" - (4:13)
8. "Masquerade" - (4:46)
9. "Between Strangers" - (4:06)
10. "The Kaleidoscope Affair" - (3:09)
11. "Precious Words (Earthbound Mix) - (4:11)
12. "Forever Blue (String Mix) - (4:13)
13. "Masquerade (Instrumental Mix) - (4:46)