Sleeping with Your Memory explained

Sleeping with Your Memory
Type:studio
Artist:Janie Fricke
Cover:Janie Fricke--Sleeping with Your Memory.jpg
Studio:Audio Media Recorders
Genre:Country-pop[1]
Label:Columbia
Producer:Jim Ed Norman
Prev Title:I'll Need Someone to Hold Me When I Cry
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:It Ain't Easy
Next Year:1982

Sleeping with Your Memory is a studio album by American country music artist Janie Fricke. It was released in September 1981 via Columbia Records and contained 11 tracks. It was the sixth studio album of Fricke's music career and spawned two singles: "Do Me with Love" and "Don't Worry 'bout Me Baby". Both songs reached chart positions on the North American country charts. The album itself also reached charting positions in the United States.

Background and content

Janie Fricke had been signed to Columbia Records since 1977 but found it challenging to find a musical identity. This resulted in her early singles only reaching minor chart positions and receiving limited radio airplay. In the early 1980s, Fricke started focusing on ballads which ultimately led to her breakthrough with 1981's "Down to My Last Broken Heart". She would continue having a string of hits during the decade and release a series of commercially successful albums.[2] Among these albums was Sleeping with Your Memory, which she recorded with produced Jim Ed Norman. It was Fricke's second album produced by Norman. The project was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Audio Media Recorders in June 1981.[3]

Sleeping with Your Memory was a collection of 11 tracks that contained new recordings as well as covers of previously released songs.[1] Several ballads were featured on the collection including the title track. Among the final tracks was "Always", which was composed by Fricke's then-husband Randy Jackson. A cover version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Homeword Bound" was also included and it featured Ricky Skaggs playing fiddle. A cover version of Yvonne Elliman's "Love Me" was also part of the project.[3]

Release, reception and singles

Sleeping with Your Memory was originally released in September 1981 on Columbia Records. It was Fricke's sixth studio release of her career. The album was originally distributed as a vinyl LP and a cassette with identical track listings.[3] [4] In later decades, it was reissued to digital platforms including Apple Music.[5] The disc spent a total of 27 weeks on the American Billboard country albums survey, peaking at number 42 in March 1982. It was Fricke's second album to reach a Billboard chart.[6] Greg Adams of AllMusic gave the album a three-star rating, calling it "an impressively consistent album that matches its hits with material nearly as good."[1]

Sleeping with Your Memory spawned two singles that received radio airplay and reached chart positions. Its first single spawned was the track "Do Me with Love", which was released in November 1981 on Columbia Records.[7] The single spent 19 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and peaked at number four in 1982.[8] It was followed by the April 1982 release of the track "Don't Worry 'bout Me Baby".[9] It spent 18 weeks on the Billboard country songs chart and reached the number one spot in late 1982, becoming Fricke's first number one single.[8] In Canada, "Do Me with Love" topped the RPM country chart while "Don't Worry 'bout Me Baby" reached the top ten.[10]

Track listings

Digital version

Personnel

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Sleeping with Your Memory.[3]

Musical personnel

Technical personnel

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
AustraliaSeptember 1981 VinylCBS Records International[11]
North AmericaColumbia Records
Cassette
United KingdomVinylCBS Records International[12]
North America2016Columbia Records[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adams . Greg . Sleeping with Your Memory: Janie Fricke: Songs, reviews, credits . . 2 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Deming . Mark . Janie Fricke Biography . . 2 January 2022.
  3. Fricke . Janie . Sleeping with Your Memory (LP Liner Notes and Album Information) . . September 1981 . FC-37535.
  4. Fricke . Janie . Sleeping with Your Memory (Cassette Liner Notes and Album Information) . . September 1981 . PCT-37535.
  5. Web site: Sleeping with Your Memory by Janie Fricke . . 2 January 2022.
  6. Janie Fricke chart history (Country Albums) . . 2 January 2022.
  7. Fricke . Janie . "Do Me with Love"/"If You Could See Me Now" (7" vinyl single) . . November 1981 . 18-02644.
  8. Janie Fricke chart history (Country Songs) . . 2 January 2022.
  9. Fricke . Janie . "Don't Worry 'bout Me Baby"/"Always" (7" vinyl single) . . April 1982 . 18-02859.
  10. Search results for "Janie Fricke" under Country Singles. RPM. 26 November 2012.
  11. Fricke . Janie . Sleeping with Your Memory (LP Liner Notes and Album Information) . . September 1981 . SBP-237721.
  12. Fricke . Janie . Sleeping with Your Memory (LP Liner Notes and Album Information) . . September 1981 . CBS-85309.
  13. Web site: Press Release: Sony Legacy Releases Four Janie Fricke Albums Digitally For The First Time Ever . The Country Note . 16 October 2016 . 29 December 2021.