Tear Down These Walls
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Tear Down These Walls is the seventh album recorded by Billy Ocean
. The album features the hit singles, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
" and "The Colour of Love".
Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
. The album features the hit singles, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" is a number one single by singer Billy Ocean. Part of its popularity lay in its cutting-edge video, which featured cartoon mixed with live-action sequences. The song went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Black Singles chart. It also...
" and "The Colour of Love".
Track listing
- All Songs Published By Zomba Enterprises Inc./Aqua Music Ltd./Donril Music/Barry J. Eastmond Music Co./Public Eye Music Inc/Jo Skin Music Inc./Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.
- "Tear Down These Walls" (3:41) (Lange, Ocean, Riley)
- "Gun for Hire" (4:59) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Jolyon Skinner)
- "Stand and Deliver" (5:02) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Skinner)
- "The Colour of Love" (4:26) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Skinner)
- "Calypso Crazy"* (4:55) (Lange, Ocean)
- "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My CarGet Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" is a number one single by singer Billy Ocean. Part of its popularity lay in its cutting-edge video, which featured cartoon mixed with live-action sequences. The song went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Black Singles chart. It also...
"* (5:37) (Lange, Ocean) - "Soon As You're Ready" (4:38) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Skinner)
- "Pleasure" (4:55) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Skinner)
- "Because of You" (4:53) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Skinner)
- "Here's to You" (4:14) (Braithwaite, Eastmond, Ocean, Skinner)
Production credits
- Produced by Wayne Brathwaite, Barry J. Eastmond, Robert John "Mutt" Lange & Teddy Riley
- Engineers: Carl Beatty, Jerry Peal, Steve Power
- Assistant Engineers: Bruce Robbins, Chris Trevitt
- Mixing: Nigel Green
Personnel
- Drums: Richard Bailey, Terry SilverlightTerry SilverlightTerry Silverlight is a jazz, pop, rock and R&B drummer, composer, producer, arranger and author.Silverlight was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey. He made his debut as a drummer on Barry Miles 's White Heat album, recorded in 1971 when Silverlight was fourteen...
, Buddy Williams - Percussion: Bashiri Johnson, Tony Maronie
- Programming: Pete Harris, Phil Nicholas
- Bass: Paul Bruce, Jolyon Skinner
- Keyboards, Synthesizers: Dave Collard, Mitchell Forman, Rob Lord, Phil Nicholas, Brenda Nicholas, Eric Rehl, V. Jeffrey Smith
- Guitars: John Butler, Jonathan Butler, Steve Byrd, Mike Campbell, Ira Siegel
- Saxophone: Charles Dougherty, Wesley Magoogan, Lenny Pickett
- Trombone: Clifton Anderson
- Trumpet: Mac Gollehon, Ron Tooley
- Cello: Richard Hendrickson, Edith Wint
- Backing Vocals: Phillip Ballou, Ethel Beatty, Mary Cassidy, Will Downing, Lani Groves, Yolanda Lee Lewis, The ManhattansThe ManhattansThe Manhattans are an American popular R&B vocal group, with a string of hit records spanning four decades. Their best known million-selling songs being "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and 'Shining Star' in 1980...
, Cindy Mizelle, Brenda Nelson, Vaneese Thomas, Carol Thompson, Bernita Turner, Audrey Wheeler