Dream Master (album) explained

Dream Master
Type:studio
Artist:Billie Hughes
Cover:Bill Hughes Dream Master album cover artwork.jpg
Border:yes
Released:1979
Studio:A&M Studios, Hollywood; Sounds Interchange Studios, Canada; Total Sound West, Vancouver, British Columbia; Cherokee Studios, LA
Label:Epic Records
Next Title:Welcome to the Edge
Next Year:1991

Dream Master is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Billie Hughes, released in 1979 on Epic Records by CBS Canada. Hughes composed all of the songs with "Stealin' My Heart Away" issued as the first single in 1979.[1] The album was produced by Henry Lewy who held recording sessions at A&M Studios featuring top Los Angeles session musicians including Jeff Porcaro,[2] Russ Kunkel, Victor Feldman, Wilton Felder, Mike Melvoin, and Mike Porcaro,[3] Oscar Castro-Neves and a guest appearance by José Feliciano on guitar and background vocals.[4] [5]

The album was released in the US and internationally where in Japan, it received attention in the Osaka region, and Europe, in connection with the release of Hughes' Martin Eden single, appearing as the theme song of the Martin Eden mini-series, an Italian production broadcasting pan-Europe. In Germany, the album was released with Martin Eden opening the album, as a bonus track.

Stealin' My Heart Away
Cover:Stealin'_My_Heart_Away_single_by_Bill_Hughes.jpeg
Type:single
Artist:Bill Hughes
Album:Dream Master
Released:1979
Studio:A&M Studios
Genre:Pop
Length:3:34
Label:Epic Records
Prev Title:Martin Eden
Prev Year:1979
Next Title:Welcome To The Edge
Next Year:1991

The album was released on vinyl by Epic Records in 1979.[6] It was re-released in Japan in 1982 when Billie Hughes moved to Japan for four months to perform in Osaka. Dream Master was re-released in Japan in CD format during the 1990s, after the success of Hughes' second solo album, Welcome to the Edge, and again in 2001.

Background

After recording two albums with his band Lazarus in Woodstock and New York City, Hughes moved to Toronto where he played live performances.[7]  In 1978, he was signed by CBS Canada with plans to record an album in Los Angeles to be released on the Epic Records label.[8]

Songs

José Feliciano appears on "Only Your Heart Can Say" on guitar and background vocals.

“Quiet Moment" was included on Shine, Mono Presents 70s Shine American Music Masterpiece Collection, released by Sony Music direct (Japan) in 2003, as track No. 8, alongside tracks by Eric Anderson, Tony Kosinec, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Mason, Ned Doheny, Fools Gold, Cecilio & Kapono, Les Dudek, Simon & Garfunkel, Livingston Taylor, Bob Dylan, Dane Donohue, Willie Nelson, Eric Gale, and James Taylor.[9] [10]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from liner notes of the Dream Master album.

(Note: the numbers below refer to the songs in the order of the tracking listing)

Notes and References

  1. October 6, 1985. Billboard, Top Single Picks. live. Billboard. 70. https://web.archive.org/web/20210121215754/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1979/Billboard%201979-10-06.pdf . January 21, 2021 .
  2. Web site: THE GREAT GROOVE MASTER : JEFF PORCARO SESSION WORLD. geocities.jp. April 8, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050628/http://www.geocities.jp/jeffsstamp/diskfile/bfile/bihues1a.html. March 4, 2016. dead.
  3. News: Radio Swiss Pop – Musikdatenbank – Musiker. Radio Swiss Pop. June 27, 2017. de.
  4. Web site: Lewis. Randy. August 26, 1978. East Coasting/Points West. live. Cashbox. 50. https://web.archive.org/web/20210423194014/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1978/CB-1978-08-26-OCR-Page-0050.pdf . April 23, 2021 .
  5. Web site: Lewis. Randy. August 5, 1978. East Coastings/Points West. live. Cashbox. 22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210423194015/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1978/CB-1978-08-05-OCR-Page-0043.pdf . April 23, 2021 .
  6. Book: Inc, Nielsen Business Media. Billboard. February 17, 1979. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. en.
  7. Web site: July 29, 1978. OUR ARTISTS GET RIGHTS TO THE POINTS.. live. Cashbox. 22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210423194007/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1978/CB-1978-07-29-OCR-Page-0057.pdf . April 23, 2021 .
  8. Web site: January 28, 1978. CBS Signs Hughes. live. Cashbox. 57. https://web.archive.org/web/20210423194017/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1978/CB-1978-01-28-OCR-Page-0057.pdf . April 23, 2021 .
  9. Web site: Inc. Lawson Entertainment. Mono Presents '70s Shine American Music Masterpiece Collection. December 26, 2021. HMV&BOOKS online. en.
  10. News: DREAM MASTER Bill Hughes CD Album. CDJapan. June 27, 2017. en.
  11. News: Brooks. Ben. November 11–24, 1982. Producer/Engineer Henry Lewy: Sensitivity And Experience In A Supportive Studio Role. 10. Music Connection.

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