''St. Vincent's Court'' is the fourth studio album by

Kim Carnes Kim Carnes (; born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. A veteran writer of many of her own hits, as well as those for numerous other artists, she began her career in 1966 as ...

, released in 1979. The album's single, "It Hurts So Bad", peaked at No. 56 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Pop Singles chart.

Critical reception

'' The Courier Journal'' noted that "the material runs from slightly country to slightly rhythm-and-blues to heavily ballad-like pop." The ''

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'' wrote that the album "samples everything now playing in pop, with Ms. Carnes struggling unsuccessfully to keep up with abrupt shifts in mood and song style."

Track listing

# "What Am I Gonna Do" (Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson) – 2:58 # "Jamaica Sunday Morning" (Carnes, Ellingson) – 4:23 # "Stay Away" (Carnes) – 4:00 # "Lookin' for a Big Night" (Carnes, Ellingson) – 3:54 # "Paris Without You (St. Vincent's Court)" (Carnes, Ellingson) – 5:15 # "It Hurts So Bad" (Carnes) – 3:02 # "Lose in Love" (Carnes) – 3:45 # "Skeptical Shuffle" (Carnes, Ellingson) – 3:30 # "Take Me Home to Where My Heart Is" (Daniel Moore) – 3:13 # "Blinded by Love" (Carnes, Ellingson) – 3:00 # "Goodnight Moon" (Carnes, Ellingson) – 3:37

Personnel

* Kim Carnes – lead vocals, backing vocals (1-3, 8, 10),

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usu ...

(1), rhythm track arrangements * Bill Cuomo – acoustic piano (1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11), keyboards (2, 8), electric piano (4),

clavinet The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and respond ...

(4),

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

(5),

ARP String Ensemble The Solina String Ensemble, also marketed as the ARP String Ensemble, is a fully polyphonic multi-orchestral string synthesizer with a 49-key keyboard, produced by Eminent BV (known for their ''Solina'' brand). It was distributed in the United ...

(5), ARP String Synthesizer (7), additional string arrangements (7) * Daniel Moore – melodica (1), backing vocals (1, 4, 9), harmony vocals (7), rhythm track arrangements * Ron Barron –

organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

(6) * Jim W. Gordon – organ (9), synthesizers (9) * Dave Ellingson – rhythm guitars (1),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

(1), melodica (1), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 8-11), sound effects (2), guitars (11), rhythm track arrangements * Steve Geyer – electric guitars (1),

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

(1, 2), guitars (2, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (10) * John Beland –

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

(1), acoustic guitars (6), mandolin (6), rhythm guitar (7) * Bobby Cochram – guitars (3-5, 9), electric guitars (6, 10) * Dominic Genova – bass (1, 2, 7, 8, 10) *

Leland Sklar Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician. He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylu ...

– bass (3-5, 11) * Reine Press – bass (6) * David Jackson – bass (9) * Matt Betton – drums (1–5, 7, 8, 10, 11) *

Richie Hayward Richard Hayward (February 6, 1946 – August 12, 2010) was an American drummer best known as a founding member and drummer in the band Little Feat. He performed with several bands and worked as a session player. Hayward also joined with fri ...

– drums (6, 9) * Larry Hirsch – percussion (1, 6), sound effects (2) * Victor Feldman –

marimba The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the mari ...

(2), percussion (2),

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s (8, 10),

vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

(8, 10) *

Bobbye Hall Bobbye Jean Hall is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 20 songs that reached the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early career, work for ...

– percussion (4, 5) * Gary Montgomery –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

(1) * Jerry Peterson – saxophone (2, 5, 8, 10) * Tim Weisberg –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

s (5) * Darrell Leonard – trumpet (11) * Jim Ed Norman – string arrangements and conductor * Danny Timms – backing vocals (4, 11) * Etan McElroy – backing vocals (4, 11) * Matthew Moore – backing vocals (9) * Brian Cadd – backing vocals (11)

Production

* Kim Carnes – producer * Dave Ellingson – producer * Daniel Moore – producer, recording engineer (9) * Larry Hirsch – engineer, mixdown engineer * Ron Borawski – second engineer * Gary Lubow – second engineer * Linda Tyler – second engineer * Stewart Whitmore – second engineer * Michael Carnevale – second engineer (6) * Steve Escallier – additional engineer * Beverly Jones – additional engineer *

Wally Heider Wally Heider (''née'' Wallace Beck Heider; 20 May 1922 Sheridan, Oregon – 22 March 1989) was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and remote recording and was instrumental in r ...

– additional recording engineer (6) * John Golden – mastering * Jim Sintetos – mastering * Kendun Recorders (Burbank, California) – mastering location * John Kosh – art direction, design * Jim Shea – cover photography * Nancy Andrews – inner sleeve photography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Vincent's Court 1979 albums Kim Carnes albums EMI Records albums