''Wheels Are Turnin is the eleventh

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, released on October 31, 1984. It reached No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The lead single was "

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," which stalled at #29 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The second single, "

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", was REO's second and longest-running number one single. Other singles released were " One Lonely Night" and "Live Every Moment". These singles also reached the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, reaching #19 and #34, respectively. The singles from the album also had success on other ''

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'' charts: "Can't Fight This Feeling" and "I Do' Wanna Know" each reached #5 on the

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, with "One Lonely Night" reaching #17, and "Can't Fight This Feeling" and "One Lonely Night" reached #3 and #10, respectively on the

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chart. ''Billboard'' writer Kim Freeman suggested that the release of "I Do' Wanna Know" before "Can't Fight This Feeling" could be regarded as an "oversight." However, lead singer

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, who wrote both songs, disagreed, stating "not all singles are released to be hits." Paul Grein attributed the initial sluggish sales of ''Wheels Are Turnin before the release of "Can't Fight This Feeling" to the fact that "I Do' Wanna Know" was not successful with pop radio stations and noted that sales began to take off only after the release of the second single. In 2013, the album was released on CD by UK-based company Rock Candy Records, with expanded liner notes and photos. The LP version contained a cut-out

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Track listing

Personnel

REO Speedwagon *

– lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar on "Thru the Window" *

Gary Richrath Gary Dean Richrath (October 18, 1949 – September 13, 2015) was an American guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for the band REO Speedwagon from 1970 until 1989. Early life Richrath was born in Peoria, Illinois, on Octob ...

– electric guitar *

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– keyboards * Bruce Hall – bass * Alan Gratzer – drums Additional personnel * Steve Forman – percussion * Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals * Tom Kelly – backing vocals *

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– backing vocals * Bill Cuomo – orchestration on "Can't Fight This Feeling"

Production

* Kevin Cronin – producer, arrangements * Alan Gratzer – producer * Gary Richrath – producer * David DeVore – assistant producer, engineer * Julian Stoll – assistant engineer * Steve Hall – mastering at Future Disc (Hollywood, California). *

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– art direction, design * Ron Larson – art direction, design * Randee St. Nicholas – photography

Charts

Certifications

References

REO Speedwagon – Wheels Are Turnin' @ MSN Music
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