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Waiting Here For You
I Don't Know Why
Hearts in The Wind
I've Had Enough
Somewhere Tonight
Pretty Words
It's Just a Matter of Time
Ready to Fall in Love Again   
Meet Me Halfway
I Will Rise and Shine Again

Gail Davies
Gail Davies/Harry Stinson
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies/Wally Wilson
Gail Davies
Gail Davies

Acoustic guitar:
Electric guitar:
Drums:
Bass:
Keyboards:
Cello:
Dobro:
Steel guitar:
Background vocals:

Art direction:
Photograhpy:
Project asst:

Billy Joe Walker, Jr. Kevin Welch and Pat Flynn
Reggie Young
Bob Mummert
Denny Dadmun-Bixby, Leland Sklar
Gene Sisk, Randy McCormick, Matt Rollings
John Catchings
Paul Franklin
Paul Franklin, Steve Fishell, Bruce Bowden
Gail Davies, Jonele Mosser, Harry Stinson, Walker Igleheart,
Lionel Cartwright, Herman Harper
Simon Levy
Jim McGuire
Jessee Noble

          After the demise of Wild Choir, Gail left RCA and returned to a solo career. She signed with MCA Records, now headed by Jimmy Bowen, who encouraged her to write as much as she could for the new album. During a period of five to six months, Gail wrote and co-wrote, all the songs on this album and produced it with Jimmy Bowen. She said she was concerned that one of her songs, Waiting Here For You, sounded too much like a melody that her friend, Harlan Howard, had written so she called him at home and played it for him over the phone. Harlan, always the country gentleman, said he thought it was a great song and sounded like all those old time country melodies. Then he added, "Of course you can put my name on it if you like, but I'd rather you had a big hit so you can take care of that little boy of yours."
          Newsweek magazine wrote a full page story on Gail when the album was released and she was, subsequently, invited to appear on The Today Show. Everything started off well, but the project was later caught in the middle of a highly political "changing of the guard" as Bowen made plans to break off from MCA to start his own label. Gail had left RCA at the same time as her friend and fellow artist, Vince Gill. They both signed with MCA at about the same time and had released two singles, which did not fare well at radio. Tony Brown, who had produced Vince's MCA album, was completely committed to him and, in spite of recomendations to drop both artists, convinced Bruce Hinton to release a third single on Vince entitled When I Call Your Name. Of course the rest is history. Gail, having been signed and co-produced by Jimmy Bowen, had no one at the label to champion her once he had gone. She was told there were no hit singles on her album and was abruptly dropped from the label.
            Steve Fishell, who played steel guitar on this record, was about to produce an artist on Curb Records by the name of Jann Browne and wanted to record I Don't Know Why, written by Gail and Harry Stinson. Curb Records asked to change the song's title to Tell Me Why. The single became a bitter/sweet hit for Gail. She was thrilled to see her song on the Billboard charts and happy for the success of her friend, Jann Browne, but disapointed that MCA had not believed in her enough to release her version of the song.
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