''Tommy Tutone 2'' is the second album by

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Tommy Tutone Tommy Tutone is an American power pop band, known for its 1981 song " 867-5309/Jenny", which peaked at #4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The band's lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and occasional keyboardist is Tommy Heath. He is the only active ...

, released in 1981. It features its biggest hit, "

867-5309/Jenny "867-5309/Jenny" is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Keller's band Tommy Tutone. It was released on the album '' Tommy Tutone 2'' (1981) through Columbia Records. It peaked at number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 10 ...

". The first two albums by the band were re-released by the Collectable label as a two-albums-on-one-CD release in 1997. John Cowsill of the Cowsills appears on backing vocals and plays percussion on the album. In October 2006, VH1 listed "867-5309/Jenny" as the 36th-greatest song of the 1980s.

Track listing

Side one

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Alex Call Alexander Marvin Call (born September 27, 1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cleveland Guardians. Amateur career Born in Bu ...

Jim Keller Jim Keller is an American musician, producer, manager, publisher, and composer whose work in the music business spans more than 40 years. He was the co-founder, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter for the American rock band Tommy Tutone based ...

) – 3:46 #"Baby It's Alright" (

Tommy Heath Thomas Allen Heath (born March 31, 1947) is an American musician best known as the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and occasional keyboardist of the band Tommy Tutone, who are most famous for their 1981 single, "867-5309/Jenny." A common misconce ...

, Keller) – 3:23 #"Shadow on the Road Ahead" (

Rita Abrams Rita Abrams (born August 30, 1943) is an American songwriter, performer and writer. Her song "Mill Valley", recorded with children at the school where she was teaching, was released under the name Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Fourth Grade ...

, Heath) – 3:36 #"Bernadiah" (Heath, Keller) – 5:29 #"Why Baby Why" (Heath, Keller) – 2:58

Side two

#"Which Man Are You" (Heath, Keller) – 2:50 #"No Way to Cry" (Heath) – 3:07 #"

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" (David Gilman, Keller) – 3:50 #"Tonight" (Brian Dalton, Heath) – 2:41 #"Only One" (Keller) – 3:24 #"Not Say Goodbye" (Keller) – 3:26

Personnel

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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Jon Lyons –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

(tracks A1-5) *Victor Carberry –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(tracks A1-5)

Additional musicians

*Steve LeGassick – keyboards (became an official member of the band by 1982) *Rick Cutler – drums (tracks B1-6) *Lonnie Turner – bass guitar (tracks B1-6) *

John Cowsill John Patrick Cowsill (born March 2, 1956) is an American musician, best known for his work as a singer and drummer with his siblings' band the Cowsills. He has been a drummer and vocalist for the Beach Boys touring band, which featured original B ...

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

harmony vocals Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical ...

(tracks A1-2) *

Sam Clayton Sam Clayton (born September 16, 1946) is an American singer and percussionist, primarily focusing on drums, conga and djembe, throughout his musical career. He is best known as a supporting vocalist and percussionist with the American rock band ...

– percussion (track A4)

Production

*Tracks A1-A5: Produced by Chuck Plotkin and Tutone-Keller (sic) *Tracks B1-B6: Produced by Geoff Workman *

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: Toby Scott, Geoff Workman *Assistant engineers: Catharina Masters, John Weaver

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1981 albums Tommy Tutone albums Columbia Records albums CBS Records albums