Electric Youth

Infobox Album
Name = Electric Youth
Type = studio
Artist = Deborah Gibson


Caption = Front cover, Atlantic SD 81932. Courtesy Greg Porto.
Released = January 24, 1989
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Pop, Bubblegum Pop, Dance, Pop rock
Length = 58:17
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Deborah Gibson, Fred Zarr
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:giftxqu5ldje link]
Chronology = Deborah Gibson album
Last album = "Out of the Blue" (1987)
This album = "Electric Youth" (1989)
Next album = "Anything Is Possible" (1990)
Misc = Singles
Name = Electric Youth
Type = studio
Single 1 = Lost in Your Eyes
Single 1 date = January 1989
Single 2 = Electric Youth
Single 2 date = March 1989
Single 3 = No More Rhyme
Single 3 date = May 1989
Single 4 = We Could Be Together
Single 4 date = August 1989

"Electric Youth" (Atlantic LP 81932) is the second album by Debbie Gibson, released January 24, 1989 on Atlantic Records. It is the most successful album of her career, staying at the top of the Billboard Hot Albums chart for five weeks, and reaching Number 8 on the UK album chart.

Album

As with "Out of the Blue," all tracks were written by Gibson herself, and she single-handedly produced six of the tracks. She was also given half of the production credits on one track alongside Fred Zarr who produced the other four tracks. The album, like her first, contained mainly bubblegum-pop songs, though other, more mature styles were touched upon. "Electric Youth" spawned four singles, the first being the biggest charting single of her career—"Lost In Your Eyes," which held #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks. "Electric Youth", the album's title track, just missed the Top 10, reaching #11. "No More Rhyme" followed, ending its run at #17, and "We Could Be Together" charted at #71. In the USA, The album was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA. This album sold over 10,000,000 copies worldwide.

Gibson promoted the album with "The Electric Youth World Tour" in 1989. She also had a fragrance of the same name manufactured by Natural Wonder.

Track listing

# "Who Loves Ya Baby?" (4:00)
# "Lost In Your Eyes" (3:34)
# "Love in Disguise" (4:17)
# "Helplessly in Love" (4:10)
# "Silence Speaks (a Thousand Words)" (3:37)
# "Should've Been the One" (5:07)
# "Electric Youth" (4:55)
# "No More Rhyme" (4:13)
# "Over the Wall" (3:58)
# "We Could Be Together" (5:33)
# "Shades of the Past" (4:52)
# "We Could Be Together" (Campfire Mix/5:33)*
# "No More Rhyme" (Acoustic Mix/4:13)*

Asterisk (*) denotes bonus tracks on Compact Disc Digital Audio 81932-2. _{All songs written by Deborah Gibson - Music Sales Corp., ASCAP.}

Personnel

*Deborah Gibson - Lead and Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Drum Programming, Piano
*Fred Zarr - Keyboards, Drum Programming
*Ira Siegel - Guitars
*Tommy Williams - Guitars
*Kirk Powers Burkhardt - Bass
*Lou Appel - Drums
*Bashiri Johnson - Percussion
*Leslie Ming - Percussion Overdubs on "Who Loves Ya Baby?," "Love in Disguise," "No More Rhyme," "Over the Wall"
*Jeff Smith - Saxophone
*Adam Tese - Saxophone, Percussion
*Carrie Johnson - Backing Vocals
*Libby Johnson - Backing Vocals
*Keeth Stewart - Backing Vocals
*Tim Lawless - Backing Vocals on "Shades of the Past"
*Linda Moran - Backing Vocals on "We Could Be Together"
*Sandra St. Victor - Backing Vocals on "No More Rhyme"
*Additional Winds support on "No More Rhyme" and "We Could Be Together": The Cadillac Horns
**Ed Palermo, Tenor Saxophone
**Bud Burridge, Trumpet
**Matt Finders, Trombone

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