''Tennis'' is the third studio album by British singer-songwriter
Chris Rea
Christopher Anton Rea ( ; born 4 March 1951) is a British Rock music, rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist from Middlesbrough. Known for his distinctive voice and his slide guitar playing, Rea has recorded twenty-five studio albums, ...
, released in 1980.
The album features two singles one of which includes a non-album B-side.
Track listing
All words and music by Chris Rea
# "Tennis" – 5:18
# "Sweet Kiss" – 4:33
# "Since I Don't See You Anymore" – 3:41
# "Dancing Girls" – 4:02
# "No Work Today" (instrumental) – 2:33
# "Every Time I See You Smile" – 6:18
# "For Ever and Ever" – 4:09
# "Good News" – 3:54
# "Friends Across the Water" (instrumental) – 3:45
# "Distant Summers" – 2:10
# "Only with You" – 3:42
# "Stick It" – 5:19
Singles
# "Tennis" b/w "If You Really Love Me"
# "Dancing Girls" b/w "Friends Across the Water"
Personnel
Musicians
* Chris Rea – vocals, backing vocals, grand piano, keyboards, lead guitars,
slide guitar
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...
, arrangements
* Graham Watson – keyboards, synthesizers,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
* Dave Burton – guitars
* Mick Hutchinson –
Fender bass
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* Norman Nosebait – drums
* Mark Rea – percussion
* Geoff Driscoll – "every type" of saxophones
*
Raphael Ravenscroft
Raphael Ravenscroft (4 June 1954 – 19 October 2014) was a British musician, composer and author. He is best known for playing the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street".
Early life
Ravenscroft was born in the distri ...
– saxophones, brass arrangements
* Raúl Gonzáles – trombone, bass trombone
* Lee Thornburg – trumpet, brass arrangements
* Jimmy Chambers – backing vocals
* George Chandler – backing vocals
*
Stuart Epps
Stuart Epps is a British record producer and audio engineer.
Since 1967, he has worked with Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, Twisted Sister, Nine Lies, Bill Wyman, Kiki Dee, George Harrison, Robbie Williams, Mark Owen, Paul Weller, Cliff Richar ...
– backing vocals
* Watsoni – backing vocals
*
Pete Wingfield
William Peter Wingfield (born 7 May 1948) is an English record producer, Keyboardist, keyboard player, songwriter, singer, and music journalism, music journalist.
Career
Whilst at Sussex University, Wingfield and three other students formed ...
– backing vocals
Production
* Chris Rea – producer
* Barry Hammond – engineer, mixing
* Hothouse – artwork
* David Magnus – inner sleeve photography
Charts
References
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Chris Rea albums
1980 albums
Magnet Records albums