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Someone is Looking For Someone Like You
I'll Be There
Blue Heartache
Bucket to the South
Grandma's Song
You're a Hard Dog to Keep Under the Porch
Round the Clock Lovin'
Singing the Blues
Unwed Fathers
Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart

Gail Davies
Rusty Gabbard/Ray Price
Paul Kraft
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Harlan Howard/Susanna Clark
K.T.Oslin/Rory Bourke
Melvin Endsley
John Prine/Bobby Braddock
Walker Igleheart/Mike Joyce

"Unwed Fathers" and "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" were leased from RCA Records for this project. Check the album, Where is a Woman To Go, for a list of musicians from that session.

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Fairlight:
Background vocals:

Pete Pendras
Danny Parks
Gary Prim
Willie Weeks
Bob Mummert
Steve Fishell
Rob Hajacos
Terry McMillan
Buddy Blackman
Programed by Byron House, played by Gene Sisk
Gail Davies and Vince Gill

           Before Gail left Warner Brothers in 1983 and moved to RCA Records, she compiled an album of her hits for the label to release at a later date. The masters turned up lost, or misplaced, by someone at the company who claimed that Gail had never delivered them. Gail's lawyer responded by pointing out that she would not have been paid the balance of her production fee (which was due upon delivery of the masters), if she had not turned the masters in. That fee had already been paid. This evolved into an unpleasant stand off as nobody was willing to accept responsibility for the lost masters.
           In 1990, still wanting to have her hit recordings available to the public, Gail approached Jimmy Bowen, now head of Capitol/EMI Records, about re-recording her hit singles. He agreed and gave her a modest budget to put this album together.
          While mastering the finished album with Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics, he inquired about the Warner Brothers tapes and asked why Gail had not used them instead. She told him that the masters had been lost. He replied, "They're not lost! They're back in the vaults. Warner Brothers sent them over here with no PO number and they've been sitting there ever since."A simple clerical error had caused a monumental misuderstanding.
           This album is a compilation of "re-recorded" versions of Gail's hits. It is still available in some areas and can be obtained through vintage record stores like the Great Escape in Nashville and Jack Lawrence Record Shop: 615/256-9240.

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