The album's lead single, " Nothin ' Better to Do " was released in mid 2007, and peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Country Chart before the end of the year.

Most of the album's fourteen songs are originals ; the exceptions being covers of " Running Out of Fools ", previously a hit for Aretha Franklin, and " Look for Me ( I'll Be Around )" previously performed by Sarah Vaughan.

For unknown reasons, this album was unreleased by Motown, but in April, 2011, the album's original tracks, along with fourteen unreleased original Contours 1960s Motown recordings, and new 2011 interviews with the Contours ' founder Joe Billingslea as well as with Sylvester Potts, was released as part of the CD compilation collection, Dance With The Contours on the import label, Kent Records, under legal license from, and with the full approval of, the owners of the Motown catalogue.

The album's third single, " Voice of Truth ", spent a record-breaking fourteen consecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in 2003.

" That's the Way Love Goes ", the album's lead single entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number fourteen and peaked at number one.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were " Instinct ", " Not the Girl You Think You Are " and " Everything Is Good for You ", which featured backing vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

The album's liner notes included information about the songs, written by music journalist David Hepworth.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

Though neither of the album's two singles, "( Why Don't More Women Sing ) Honky Tonk Songs " and " Salt in my Tears ", charted, videos for both songs received significant airplay on CMT.

The album's tour featured the band performing seven songs in front of a 12-foot high rear-projection screen with synchronized video, an image recreated using blue screen effects in the album's accompanying music videos.

The album's original songs were the result of a very productive songwriting partnership between Parsons and Hillman, who were sharing a bachelor pad in LA during this period.

Blue Lines was seen widely as the first major manifestation of a uniquely British hip hop movement, but the album's hit single " Unfinished Sympathy " and several other tracks, while their rhythms were largely sample-based, were not seen as hip hop songs in any conventional sense.

Waits beatboxes on the opening track, " Top of the Hill ", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's " vocal percussion " improvisations.

The song " Fingertips " actually comprised 21 separate tracks — short snippets that not only acted together to make the song, but that when played in random order would be interspersed between the album's full-length songs.

After the Replacements signed to Twin / Tone, Westerberg began to write new songs, and soon had a whole album's worth of material.

Alternate mixes of this album's songs along with unreleased tracks from the sessions have appeared on later compilations.

Comfort Eagle itself was released on July 24, 2001, to good reviews ; Michael D. Clark of The Houston Chronicle described it as " Cake at its best ", while a reviewer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the album's songs were " among the best of the band's career ", praising McCrea for widening his vocal repertoire.

Singles were released in various territories for three of the album's songs, " If You Were Here ", " Things She Said " and " 747 " ( featuring the English version of " Kräm ", entitled " What It Feels Like ").

The album's release was delayed when the band ran into conflict with their label over the content of songs such as " We Can Be Together " and " Uncle Sam Blues " and the planned title of the album, Volunteers of Amerika.

"), and that its wide variety of songs was a major part of the album's appeal.

The album's inside packaging included a poster, the lyrics to the songs, and a set of photographs taken by John Kelly during the autumn of 1968 that have themselves become iconic.

< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 28 %; float: left ; margin: 10px 10px 5px 5px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;"> Into the Music: " The album's last four songs, " Angelou ", " And the Healing Has Begun ", and " It's All in the Game / You Know What They're Writing About " are a veritable tour-de-force with Morrison summoning every vocal trick at his disposal from " Angelou's climactic shouts to the sexually-charged, half-mumbled monologue in " And the Healing Has Begun " to the barely audible whisper that is the album's final sound.

This LP reached # 7 on the national charts on the strength of songs like the ballad " In My Room ", later released as a single ; " Catch a Wave "; and " Little Deuce Coupe ", which was released as a double-sided single with the album's title track, both top-15 hits.

Wilson played and sang on much of the 1971 Surf's Up album and wrote or co-wrote four of the album's ten songs, including the title track, which was a Carl Wilson-produced rerecording of the legendary 1966 SMiLE track.

The Flaming Lips released two EPs in the same vein of their previous album's robotic theme and containing remixed songs from Yoshimi, Fight Test and Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell.

Finally in 1980, the album's title track, which still remains one of their most popular songs to date reached No. 17.

Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, Pornography became the band's first UK Top 10 album, charting at number eight.

The " Voices Carry " single peaked at number eight on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and is said to have been inspired by an argument between Mann and Hausman, who had broken off a relationship before the album's release.

The successful release of the singles bolstered the album's sales, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States, gaining eight-time platinum certification by the RIAA.

Following its release, Lust for Blood ranked at the top of Germany's DAC for four weeks ; the album's single release, " Wound ", ranked on the DAC's singles chart for eight weeks and held the # 1 position for four weeks.

Only two of the album's eight tracks featured Turner on lead vocals, and there was only one Turner composition, " Life Still Goes On ( I'm Lonely )".

The album's third single, " Dirty Little Thing ", peaked at number eight on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Rew wrote all the songs on this LP, while Leskanich sang eight of the album's ten tracks.

" A Beautiful Lie " was released as the album's fourth single in some territories, including Portugal, where it reached number eight on the chart.

Music videos were released for eight of the album's tracks.

She brought back Steve Bray and hired a new songwriter collaborator, Patrick Leonard, to help her co-write eight of the album's nine tracks.

" To make matters worse, Slowdive booked a tour with fellow shoegazers Catherine Wheel for a tour of the United States, only to find SBK had pushed the album's US release date back eight months.

Notable among its eight tracks were " 1865 ( 96 ° in the Shade )", " Rhythm of Life " and the album's only cover, " Dreamland ", written by Bunny Wailer.

The album's second single, " Believe ", peaked at number eight and won the duo the next year's Single of the Year and Song of the Year awards from the Country Music Association.

The Doobies most recent album " World Gone Crazy " features 13 songs, eight of which were penned by Johnston including the album's title track and the first single " Nobody ", a rerecording of the band's first single in 1971.

The hardest and most " rocking " Gentle Giant album to date, Octopus was allegedly named by Phil Shulman's wife Roberta as a pun on " octo opus " ( eight musical works, reflecting the album's eight tracks ).

Of the album's eight selections, " Memories " is the only track Cohen regularly performed in concert ( on tours in 1979, 1980 and 1985 ).

The final eight pages of the album's booklet are titled " Walk On -- Against Violence and Cruelty " and are dedicated to preventing domestic abuse and animal cruelty, providing contact information of numerous organizations, including the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Humane Society.

The melody on the album's eight tracks was often carried by the bassline, while an array of samples ( including running water, breaking glass, car crashes, fax machines ) built the musical collages ; the music on D. I.

Wright co-wrote eight of the album's twelve songs and recorded songs by successful songwriters such as Shelly Peiken, who wrote pop singer Christina Aguilera's 1999 hit, " What a Girl Wants ".

" There are numerous references to the numbers five and eight throughout the artwork, alluding to the album's concept.

Released as the album's lead single in April 1993, the song became Jackson's biggest number-one single ever in the United States, staying atop the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks, in addition to winning a Grammy Award for Best R & B Song in 1994.

The hardest and most " rocking " Gentle Giant album to date, Octopus was allegedly named by Phil Shulman's wife Roberta as a pun on " octo opus " ( eight musical works, reflecting the album's eight tracks ).