Cheat the Night

Cheat the Night is an extended play by country pop singer Deborah Allen. Released in 1983 via RCA Records, the album includes the singles "Baby I Lied," "I've Been Wrong Before," and "I Hurt for You." Although this has never been on CD, four of its six tracks (the singles and "Cheat the Night") appeared on her later Anthology compilation.

Cheat the Night
EP by
Deborah Allen
Released1983
GenreCountry
Length21:57
LabelRCA Records
ProducerRafe Van Hoy
Deborah Allen chronology
Trouble in Paradise
(1980)		 Cheat the Night
(1983)		 Let Me Be the First
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Critical reception

Michael McCall of AllMusic writes, "An EP features her two best-known hits of the 1980s, "Baby I Lied" and "I've Been Wrong Before." It's sweeter and softer-edged than her '90s work."[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Deborah Allen and Rafe VanHoy, unless otherwise noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Baby I Lied"
4:10
2."Cheat the Night" 3:56
3."Fool's Paradise" 3:27
4."I Hurt for You" 3:48
5."What's the Matter with Me"
3:35
6."I've Been Wrong Before"
  • Deborah Allen
  • Rafe Van Hoy
  • Don Cook
3:01
Total length:21:57

Musicians
  • Deborah Allen – lead vocals
  • Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar (track 1)
  • Buzzy Feiten – electric guitar (track 1)
  • George Doering – electric guitar (track 1)
  • Neil Stubenhaus – bass (track 1)
  • Robbie Buchanan – keyboards and synthesizers (track 1)
  • Eddie Bayers – drums and percussion (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Tom Robb – bass (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Dennis Burnside – keyboards (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Bobby Ogdin – keyboards (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Steve Gibson – electric rhythm guitar (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Weldon Myrick – steel guitar (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Rafe VanHoy – acoustic guitar and synthesizer (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Strings (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Background vocals (track 1)
  • Background vocals (tracks 2 to 6)

Production
  • Produced by Rafe VanHoy (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Produced and arranged by Charles Calello (track 1)
  • Mastered by Hank Williams
  • Recorded and mixed by Rick Rugger (track 1)
  • Recorded and mixed by Pat McMakin (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Additional recording by Russ Martin and Todd Cerney (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Assistant engineers – Russ Martin and Keith Odle (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Recorded and mixed at Ocean Way and The Mix Room (track 1)
  • Recorded and mixed at Emerald Sound Studio (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Additional recording at Creative Workshop & Sound Stage Studio (tracks 2 to 6)
  • Photography by Mark Tucker
  • Art direction by Bill Brunt

Track information and credits adapted from the EP's liner notes.[2]

Charts

Album
Chart (1984) Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[3] 10
US Billboard 200[4] 67

Singles
Single Year Chart Peak positions
"Baby I Lied"[5][6][7] 1983 Hot Country Songs 4
Adult Contempory 10
1984 Hot 100 26
"I've Been Wrong Before"[5] Hot Country Songs 2
"I Hurt For You"[5] 10
gollark: Also because I could get a "UPS" for that pretty cheaply, i.e. a decently high-powered battery pack.
gollark: I kind of want to migrate my server stuff to a Raspberry Pi 4 and 256GB or so SSD, because flash memory > spinny disks.
gollark: It... might be... it just says "HP" on all the info I can dredge up quickly.
gollark: It also claims to have read only 10TB and written 5TB, sooo...
gollark: ```Manufactured in week 18 of year 2012Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000Accumulated start-stop cycles: 1967Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000Accumulated load-unload cycles: 1967Elements in grown defect list: 4```

References
  1. McCall, Michael. Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. Cheat The Night (liner notes). Deborah Allen. RCA Records. 1983. MHL1-8514.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. "Deborah Allen Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  4. "Deborah Allen Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  5. "Singles Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  6. "Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  7. "Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.