STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - ROD STEWART - OUT OF ORDER

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Good morning Sunday people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again . Today we wish Sir Roderick David Stewart CBE, a very Happy 76th Birthday. Happy Birthday Rod ! With that, we find ourselves spinning his fifteenth studio album, Out Of Order. Out Of Order was released May 23rd, 1988 on the Warner Brothers label and produced by Rod Stewart, Andy Taylor, and Bernard Edwards. The record reached #20 in America, where it has been certified 2X Platinum, #11 in the UK, #2 in Canada, and #1 in Sweden. There were so many good (oh wow !) songs on this album, five of the 11 tracks were released as singles, as (*) noted below :

"Lost in You" (Stewart, Andy Taylor) – 4:59 (*) (#21 UK, #12 Hot 100, #6 Canada, #3  Billboard Album Rock Tracks)

"The Wild Horse" (Stewart, Taylor) – 4:58

"Lethal Dose of Love" (Taylor, Stewart, Tony Brock) – 4:38

"Forever Young" (Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar, Bob Dylan, Stewart) – 4:03 (*) (#57 UK, #12 Hot 100, #9 Canada, #3 South Africa)

"My Heart Can't Tell You No" (Simon Climie, Dennis Morgan) – 5:12 (*) (#49 UK, #4 Hot 100, #3 Adult Contemporary)

"Dynamite" (Taylor, Stewart) – 4:16 (*) (#16 Mainstream Rock)

"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:50

"Crazy About Her" (Duane Hitchings, Cregan, Stewart) – 4:53 (*) (#12 Canada, #11 Hot 100, #2 Adult Contemporary, #1 Switzerland )  

"Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods) – 4:27

"When I Was Your Man" (Savigar, Stewart) – 5:14

"Almost Illegal" (Stewart, Taylor) – 4:27

Rod Stewart – vocals

Kevin Savigar – keyboards (3–5, 7–10)
Bill Payne – acoustic piano (2, 6)

William D. "Smitty" Smith – Hammond organ (2)
Duane Hitchings – keyboards (8)
Michael Landau – guitar (1, 2, 4, 6–10), guitar solo (7)

Andy Taylor – guitar (1–6, 11), guitar solo (1, 2, 4)
David Lindley – mandolin (1, 2), slide guitar (7), fiddle (11)
Jim Cregan – acoustic guitar (4), acoustic guitar solo (5), guitar (5, 7, 8)
Eddie Martinez – guitar (9)

Bob Glaub – bass guitar (1, 5, 11)
Bernard Edwards – bass guitar (2, 3, 4, 6–10)
Tony Thompson – drums (1, 2, 6, 9, 10)
Tony Brock – drums (3–5, 11), programming (7, 8)
Bobbye Hall – percussion (8)

Lenny Pickett – saxophone (3, 7)

Jimmy Roberts – saxophone (6, 8, 10), saxophone solo (9)
David Woodford – saxophone (6, 8, 10)

Earl Gardner – trumpet (3, 7)
Bruce Miller – string arrangements (1, 5, 9, 10), brass arrangements (9)
Kelly Emberg – backing vocals (1)

Lyn Collins – backing vocals (2)
Rita Johnson – backing vocals (2)
Robert Sheen – backing vocals (2)

Producers – Bernard Edwards, Rod Stewart and Andy Taylor.
Production Coordinator – Malcolm Cullimore
Engineers – Jeff Hendrickson, Steve MacMillan, David Tickle and Paul Wertheimer.
Assistant Engineer – Alan Abrahamson
Mixing – Bernard Edwards and Steve MacMillan
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
Art Direction and Design – Janet Levinson
Photography – Randee St. Nicholas
Lettering – Margo Chase