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1 Love Is Alright Tonite
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2 Jessie's Girl
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3 Hole in My Heart
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4 Carry Me Away
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5 I've Done Everything for You
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6 The Light of Love
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7 Everybody's Girl
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8 Daddy's Pearl
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9 Red Hot & Blue Love
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10 Inside Silvia
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11 Easy to Cry (previously unreleased) [Bonus Track]
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12 Taxi Dancing (original version, previously unreleased) [Bonus Track]
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13 Jessie's Girl (demo version) [Bonus Track]
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the 1981 breakthrough album
by the singer, songwriter and actor including three bonus tracks.
Recorded in his adopted home of Los Angeles, at the now famed Sound City
studios, with a production combination of Rick Springfield, Bill
Drescher and Fleetwood Mac producer, Keith Olsen, the album exploded out
of the box to become one of the biggest selling records of the year,
eventually achieving three million units. In addition, the single
'Jessie's Girl' reached #1 on the charts, helping to define his clean
cut Pop Rock style and providing a watershed mark for the rest of his
career. Penning nine of the 10 songs himself, it was left to fellow
rocker Sammy Hagar to provide the second hit single taken from this
record, 'I've Done Everything for You,' a song originally written in
1977, but not recorded at that time. As near a perfect a Pop Rock album
as you could wish for, Working Class Dog set the standard for radio
friendly Rock for much of the '80s.
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Forget that Rick Springfield was a soap star for a moment and listen to his music, because he made
some of the finest guitar-driven mainstream pop/rock of the early '80s. Working Class Dog is his finest moment, filled with expertly crafted pop songs, highlighted by the massive hit "Jessie's Girl." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic