Looking for Angeline explained

Looking for Angeline
Cover:Love and Money Looking for Angeline 1991 single cover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Love and Money
Album:Dogs in the Traffic
B-Side:True Believer
Released:2 September 1991[1]
Length:3:53
Label:Fontana
Producer:Love and Money
Prev Title:My Love Lives in a Dead House
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:Winter
Next Year:1991

"Looking for Angeline" is a song by Scottish band Love and Money, released on 2 September 1991 as the second single from their third studio album, Dogs in the Traffic. The 12-inch and CD formats were released as the Wishing Waters E.P., with "Looking for Angeline" as the lead track. The song was written by James Grant and produced by Love and Money. It peaked at number 109 in the UK Singles Chart.

Background

Speaking to Record Mirror in 1989, Grant revealed the following about "Looking for Angeline",

"Looking for Angeline" first surfaced in January 1989 as the B-side to the band's single "Strange Kind of Love",[2] and was included in the set-list of their 1989 UK tour.[3] It was included as the sixth track on the band's third studio album, Dogs in the Traffic, in 1991.[4]

Critical reception

Upon its release as a single, Jim Whiteford of the Dundee Evening Telegraph described "Looking for Angeline" as a "classy song on which there is some country-styled guitar playing".[5] Flo Swann of the Coventry Evening Telegraph wrote, "Wicked spirited country/bluesy type thing. Great harmonica and guitars, and an infectious chorus. Very highly recommended."[6] Fife Free Press called it a "memorable country blues ditty".[7] In a review of Wishing Waters, Paul Baldwin of the Northampton Chronicle & Echo stated that the EP contains four tracks of "ever-so-sophisticated RnB, clinically produced, but somehow naggingly good". He continued, "Real candidates for 'the band most likely to' label, Love and Money are honours graduates from the Lloyd Cole college of cool."[8]

Track listing

7-inch single (UK and Europe)[9]

  1. "Looking for Angeline" – 3:53
  2. "True Believer" – 4:16

Wishing Waters E.P. – 12-inch and CD (UK and Europe)[10] [11]

  1. "Looking for Angeline" – 3:53
  2. "Who in Their Right Mind" – 4:53
  3. "True Believer" – 4:16
  4. "Hubcap to Blue Town" – 2:25

Personnel

Love and Money

Additional musicians on "Looking for Angeline"

Production

Other

Notes and References

  1. New Releases: Singles . . 31 August 1991 . 19 . 0265-1548.
  2. News: Russell . Ian . Music Matters: Love and Money . . 16 December 1988 . 16 . . subscription . 28 May 2024.
  3. News: Off the Record... . . 16 June 1989 . 11 . . subscription . 28 May 2024.
  4. Web site: Dogs in the Traffic - Love and Money; Songs, Reviews, Credits . . 28 May 2024.
  5. News: Whiteford . Jim . On the Record! - Singles . . 12 September 1991 . 23 . . subscription . 28 May 2024.
  6. News: Swann . Flo . Street Talk: Reviews - Double treat for rock fans . . 12 September 1991 . 12 . . subscription . 28 May 2024.
  7. News: Inside Outlook: Singled out . . 20 September 1991 . 12 . . subscription . 28 May 2024.
  8. News: Baldwin . Paul . Entertainments - Rock and Pop: Singles . . 11 September 1991 . 4 . . subscription . 28 May 2024.
  9. Looking for Angeline . . 1991 . UK and European 7-inch single sleeve . . MONEY 12, 868 928-7.
  10. Looking for Angeline . . 1991 . UK and European 12-inch EP sleeve . . MONEY 1212, 868 929-1.
  11. Looking for Angeline . . 1991 . UK and European CD EP sleeve . . MONCD 12, 868 929-2.
  12. Singles - Positions 76 to 200 . . Spotlight Publications . 14 September 1991 . 2.

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