"Giving Herself Away"
Warner Bros. Records (1982)
Produced and arranged by Gail Davies for Little Chickadee Productions
Recorded and mixed by Galen Senogles and Rick McCollister
Basic tracks recorded at Producer's workshop in Hollywood, California
Additional recordings at Woodland Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Mastered by Denny Purcell at Woodland Mastering

Song Titles

Writers

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Round the Clock Lovin
Movin
Hold On
Amazing What a Little Love
DreamBaby
Givin' Herself Away
All the Fire is Gone
Singing the Blues
You Turn Me On I'm a Radio
Dawn

K.T.Oslin/R.Bourke
Jeff Tassin
R.Clark/M.Marchetti
Gail Davies
Cindy Walker
T. Kimmel/L.Tabola
Gail Davies
Melvin Endsley
Joni Mitchell
Ron Davies

#9 released 2/13/82

#24 released 10/30/82



#17 released 3/26/83
#17 released 6/26/82

           

Acoustic Guitars:
Electric Guitars:
Keyboards:
Bass:
Drums:
Steel Guitar:
Harmonica:
Percussion:
Banjo:
The Uncalled Four Choir:
Harmony vocal:
Horns:
Photography:
Art Design:

Gail Davies Albert Lee, Jeff Tassin, Pete Pendras and Pete Carr
Albert Lee, Dean Parks, Jon Goin, B. James Lowry and Pete Carr
Billy Payne, Craig Doerge, Jay Winding and Shane Keister
Leland Sklar
Mike Baird
Lloyd Green
Terry McMillan
Farrell Morris
Bobby Thomson
Gail Davies, Walker Igleheart, Mike Joyce, Paulette Carlson
Jeff Tassin, Ginger Holladay, Lisa Silver, Sherllyn Huffman
John Carter (Dream Baby)
Muscle Shoals Horn section (conducted by Jim Horn)
Raul Vega
Christine Sauers

 
           

          This album was considered, by country standards, to be extremely progressive. In his book, Finding Her Own Voice, author Robert Oerman, referred to it as "a feminist oriented collection." The first single, Round the Clock Lovin', proved to be, not only a groundbreaker for Gail and women in country music, but was also the catalyst for it's writer K.T. Oslin. Gail's production touches included The Muscle Shoals Horns conducted by highly respected Los Angeles session player, Jim Horn.
          Gail's longtime admiration for songwriter Joni Mitchell was the inspiration for the recording of her song, You Turn Me On I'm a Radio. The single's release prompted a call of congratulations from Mitchell (who's family had been hearing it on the radio in Canada) as well as Gail's production mentor, A&M recording engineer, Henry Lewy.
          Gail's arrangement of Marty Robbins' classic hit, Singing The Blues, gave her an opportunity to use her extensive jazz background, which surprised some of her listeners and thrilled renowned jazz critic, Nat Hentoff.
           The Uncalled Four Choir consisted of members of Gail's touring band which included her back-ground singer, Paulette Carlson . Paulette later became the lead singer for Highway 101.  Gail recorded 10 tracks of the four singers to create the sound of a large choir.
          Though currently out of print, this vinyl LP can still be obtained at vintage record stores like the Great Escape in Nashville or Jack Lawrence Record Shop: 615/256-9240.
          You can receive a FREE CD of this album when you join Gail's International fanclub. Click here for more details.

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