Sunshower (album)

Sunshower

Studio album by Thelma Houston

Released

1969

Recorded

1968–69

Soul, pop

Thelma Houston chronology

Sunshower
(1969)

Thelma Houston
(1972)

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Allmusic	^[1]

Sunshower is the debut album of Thelma Houston released in 1969 on Dunhill Records. It was produced by Jimmy Webb and became a critically acclaimed album, it charted at #50 on the Billboard R&B charts.^[2]

Previous to signing at Dunhill Records, Houston had recorded three singles, in 1967 at Capitol Records, as lead vocalist of the group called The Art Reynolds Singers, none of these singles made any mark on the singles charts. This album also provided four singles; "Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon", "Sunshower", "If This Was The Last Song" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Houston recorded several other tracks while signed to Dunhill, these were issued on an expanded CD re-issue of Sunshower in 2010 by the Soulmusic.com label.

Track listing

For the 1969 album release on Dunhill Records; Dunhill DS-50054
All tracks composed and arranged by Jimmy Webb; except where indicated
Side one:

"Sunshower (From His Own Dark City)" – 3:17
"Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon" – 4:16
"To Make It Easier on You" – 4:42
"Didn't We" – 3:10
"(Crazy) Mixed Up Girl" – 4:15
"Someone Is Standing Outside" – 3:27

Side two:

"Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:25
"This Is Where I Came In" – 3:15
"Pocketful of Keys" – 3:03
"This Is Your Life" – 3:42
"Cheap Lovin'" (arranged by Elton "Skip" Mosher) – 3:30
"If This Was the Last Song" – 3:20

CD Bonus tracks on 2010 Soulmusic.com re-issue; SMDC 05 CD

13. "Save the Country" – 1970 A-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Laura Nyro) – 2:47

14. "I Just Can't Stay Away" – 1970 B-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Harvey Price, Dan Walsch) – 2:16

15. "I Just Gotta be Me" – 1970 A-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter) – 2:23

16. "Crying in the Sunshine" – 1970 B-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Kliningman) – 2:51

17. "(The) Good Earth" – 1970 A-side UK single release only on EMI-Stateside Records (Karen O’Har, Denny McReynolds) – 3:01

18. "Ride Louis, Ride (Change in Louise)" – 1970 B-side UK single release only on EMI-Stateside Records (Joe Cocker, Chris Stainton) – 2:38

Personnel

Thelma Houston – vocals
Hal Blaine – drums, percussion
Joe Osborn – bass
Ginger Blake – background vocals
Fred Tackett – guitar
Patrice Holloway – background vocals
Mike Deasy – guitar
Larry Knechtel – harpsichord, organ
Sid Sharp – concert master
Sherlie Matthews – background vocals

References

↑ "Sunshower". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
↑ "Thelma Houston". AllMusic. 1943-05-07. Retrieved 2012-03-11.

Thelma Houston

Studio albums	Sunshower Thelma Houston (1972) I've Got the Music in Me Any Way You Like It Thelma & Jerry The Devil in Me Two to One Ready to Roll Ride to the Rainbow Reachin' All Around Breakwater Cat Never Gonna Be Another One Thelma Houston (1983) Qualifying Heat Throw You Down Thelma Houston (1994) A Woman's Touch

Collaboration albums	Tore Down House Well to the Bone

Associated albums	Good News in Hard Times

Soundtracks	The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Thank God It's Friday Into the Night Lean on Me 54

Singles	"Baby Mine" "Jumpin' Jack Flash" "Save the Country" "Me and Bobby McGee" "Don't Leave Me This Way" "Love Machine" "Suspicious Minds" "96 Tears" "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" "Moonlight Serenade" "My Lucille" "Lean on Me" "Let It Be"

Related articles	Fame Divas of Disco Jerry Butler Scott Henderson Sisters of Glory

Book:Thelma Houston

Jimmy Webb

Original albums	Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968) Words and Music (1970) And So: On (1971) Letters (1972) Land's End (1974) El Mirage (1977) Angel Heart (1982) Suspending Disbelief (1993) Ten Easy Pieces (1996) Twilight of the Renegades (2005) Live and at Large (2007) Just Across the River (2010) Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013)

Collaborative albums	Up, Up, and Away (1966) The Magic Garden (1967) Rewind (1967) A Tramp Shining (1968) The Yard Went On Forever (1968) Sunshower (1969) The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972) Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974) Earthbound (1975) Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977) Watermark (1977) Breakwater Cat (1980) The Last Unicorn (1983) The Animals' Christmas (1986) Light Years (1988) Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989) Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003) This Kind of Love (2008) Cottonwood Farm (2009) Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012)

Compilation albums	Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972) And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998) Archive (1994) Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999) Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003) The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004) Archive & Live (2005)

Songs	"All I Know" "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" "Galveston" "The Girls' Song" "Highwayman" "Honey Come Back" "MacArthur Park" "Still Within the Sound of My Voice" "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" "Up, Up and Away" "Where's the Playground Susie" "Wichita Lineman" "The Worst That Could Happen"

Related articles	Jimmy Webb discography

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