| Amore | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the Hooters |
| Cover: | TheHootersAmore.JPG |
| Released: | December 1983[1] |
| Recorded: | 1983 |
| Studio: | Studio 4 Recording, Philadelphia |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 25:04 |
| Label: | Antenna[2] |
| Producer: | |
| Next Title: | Nervous Night |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
Amore is the debut studio album by American rock band the Hooters, released in 1983.[3] [4]
The Hooters got their start with their independently released album Amore. It cost $12,000 to record. The album sold over 100,000 copies, mostly in the Philadelphia area, and led to their major label record deal with Columbia Records in 1984.[5]
Amore introduced the original versions of four songs: "All You Zombies," "Hanging on a Heartbeat," "Fightin' on the Same Side," and "Blood from a Stone," which would reappear in different versions on later albums.
An early studio recording of "Fightin' on the Same Side" and a live recording of "All You Zombies" had previously been released as singles in 1981 and 1982, respectively, on the small indie label Eighty Percent Records.[6] [7] [8]
In 2001, 18 years after its original release on LP album and cassette, Amore was made available on compact disc and included two cover versions as bonus tracks: the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from June 15, 1986, at A Conspiracy of Hope, a benefit concert on behalf of Amnesty International at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Skatalites' "Man in the Street," a live demo from the first Hooters recording session in 1980, which was also the band's first song to be played on the radio.
Trouser Press wrote: "The Hooters’ easy facility in many stylistic genres (reggae, the main impulse on Amore, remains in the repertoire, along with glossed-up heartland rock versed in folk traditionalism) matches an inability to pin down any clear-cut personality."[9]
All tracks are written by Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian, except where noted.
2001 CD bonus tracks
Credits adapted from the album liner notes.[10]