Fading Shades

Fading Shades is the sixth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 1995 by Virgin Records.

Fading Shades
Studio album by
Sandra
Released12 June 1995
Recorded1994–1995
StudioA.R.T. Studios (Ibiza, Spain)
GenrePop
Length40:11
LabelVirgin
ProducerMichael Cretu, Jens Gad
Sandra chronology
18 Greatest Hits
(1992)		 Fading Shades
(1995)		 My Favourites
(1999)
Singles from Fading Shades
  1. "Nights in White Satin"
    Released: April 1995
  2. "Won't Run Away"
    Released: July 1995
"Won't Run Away" single cover

Background

Sandra recorded Fading Shades while pregnant with twins and was having to sit during the recording sessions. The album saw a new collaborator Jens Gad working alongside Michael Cretu as a writer, arranger, programmer and producer.[1] Again, Andy "Angel" Hart performed all the male vocals on the album.

The first single released from the album was a cover version of The Moody Blues song "Nights in White Satin", which reached number thirty-four in New Zealand and only eighty-six in Germany, becoming one of Sandra's lowest-charting singles in her home country.[2] It was more successful in Israel and Finland. The song's music video featured only close-ups of Sandra's face as she was heavily pregnant at the time. A still from the video served as the album cover. "Won't Run Away" was released as the second and final single, and was Sandra's first single since 1984's "Japan ist weit" not to receive a music video. The CD single included three remixes of the song.[3] It was commercially unsuccessful and did not enter any charts, apart from reaching lower regions of German airplay top 100.[4]

The album is one of Sandra's least successful releases, only reaching number forty-two in Germany and thirty-seven in Switzerland.

Track listing
  1. "Fading Shades" (Part I) (Jens Gad) — 1:02
  2. "Nights in White Satin" (Justin Hayward) — 3:34
  3. "Son of a Time Machine" (Jens Gad, Michael Cretu, Klaus Hirschburger) — 5:01
  4. "Won't Run Away" (Jens Gad, Klaus Hirschburger) — 4:14
  5. "Tell Me More" (Jens Gad, Klaus Hirschburger) — 3:15
  6. "Will You Whisper" (Jens Gad, Klaus Hirschburger) — 4:13
  7. "Invisible Shelter" (Jens Gad, Michael Cretu, Klaus Hirschburger) — 5:20
  8. "You Are So Beautiful" (Jens Gad, Klaus Hirschburger) — 4:38
  9. "I Need Love '95" (Michael Cretu, Klaus Hirschburger) — 3:28
  10. "First Lullaby" (Michael Cretu, Jens Gad, KlausHirschburger) — 4:20
  11. "Fading Shades" (Part II) (Jens Gad) — 1:06

Charts
Chart (1995) Peak
position
Germany (Media Control)[5] 42
Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade)[6] 37
gollark: Perl is slightly lower, technically.
gollark: I'm not. I simply choose to not use C, so I do not have to deal with this.
gollark: ... yes, I know the preprocessor isn't designed for that, this is part of why I dislike it?
gollark: So you can write macros which... actually do moderately complex syntax things?
gollark: It doesn't give you an actual parse tree.

References
  1. "FadingShades". www.sandranet.com. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  2. "Sandra - Nights In White Satin". charts.nz. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  3. "Sandra - Won't Run Away (CD) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  4. "Won't run away". www.sandranet.com. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  5. "SANDRA — FADING SHADES" (in German). www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  6. "Sandra" (in German). swisscharts.com. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.