Fool Around
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fool around
1.
Also,
monkey around. Engage in idle or casual activity, putter. For example, Jim loved to fool around with his computer, or She was monkeying around with some figures in hopes of balancing the budget. [Second half of 1800s]
2.
Engage in frivolous activity, waste time. For example, Instead of studying, he spends all his spare time fooling around. Also see fool away.
3.
Engage in flirting or casual sexual acts; also, engage in adultery. For example, He caught the two teenagers fooling around in the basement. [1830s]
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Fool Around
- Artist: Rachel Sweet
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- Release Date: 1978
- Genre: Rock
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If Stiff Records wanted to market Rachel Sweet as an ironic sex symbol, they succeeded only at the irony of forbidden fruit; the picture of her on the back of this disc in a rugby shirt and jeans, head cocked, hands on hips, could grace the cover of Lolita's next edition. Sweet was fully sweet 16 in 1978, though, and pictures aside, "the little girl with the big voice," as the bosses billed her, lived up to that description. Belting, whooping, pleading, and near-weeping through the speakers, she rides the crest of Liam Sternberg and his Spector-ized production (that feel of a marching brass band keeping warm on a snowy morning), embodying the tough, rowdy sides of Brenda Lee and Wanda Jackson, though not so genre-bound as the latter. Sternberg's "Wildwood Saloon" and Elvis Costello's letter-perfect "Stranger in My House" hearken back to Sweet's childhood country records, but Carla Thomas' gleeful "B-A-B-Y," Del Shannon's mournfully up-tempo "I Go to Pieces," and Dusty Springfield's desperate "Stay Awhile" pulsate into new life through her throat, a crackerjack band including Brinsley Schwartz and Lene Lovich swirling faithfully along. Another Sternberg original, "Who Does Lisa Like?," opens with, "Sittin' around in the Firestone parking lot/It's alright!," and climaxes by insisting on the primacy of the title question over starvation in India and war in Baghdad. Only a true believer touched with the power of imputing her true belief could run that one back for a touchdown. ~ Andrew Hamlin, Rovi| Fool Album (1999 Album by Elvis Presley) | |
| Fool Around (1999 Album by One Foundation) |
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For the song "Fool Around" by The American Analog Set, see Promise of Love.
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| Studio album by Rachel Sweet | ||||
| Released | 1978, 1979 | |||
| Recorded | ??? | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 34:29 | |||
| Label | Stiff Records, Columbia Records | |||
| Producer | James Stroud, Liam Sternberg, Dave Mackay, Barrie Guard | |||
| Rachel Sweet chronology | ||||
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Fool Around is Rachel Sweet's debut album. It was released when she was 16.
This album was originally released in England as Stiff Records SEEZ 12 with some different tracks and ordering from that which appeared on the American release and all other releases since.
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B+ [2] |
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Contents
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Track listing (English version)
All tracks composed by Liam Sternberg; except where indicated
- "Just My Style" -
- "B-A-B-Y" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:08
- "Who Does Lisa Like?" – 2:54
- "Wildwood Saloon" – 4:00
- "Stay Awhile" (Michael Hawker, Ivor Raymonde) – 3:04
- "Suspended Animation" – 3:09
- "It's So Different Here" – 2:45
- "Cuckoo Clock" – 2:45
- "Pin a Medal on Mary" (Will Birch, John Wicks) – 3:05
- "Girl With a Synthesizer" - 2:35
- "Stranger in the House" (Elvis Costello) – 4:05
Track listing (American version)
All tracks composed by Liam Sternberg; except where indicated
- "B-A-B-Y" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:08
- "I Go to Pieces" (Del Shannon) – 2:42
- "Who Does Lisa Like?" – 2:54
- "Wildwood Saloon" – 4:00
- "Stay Awhile" (Michael Hawker, Ivor Raymonde) – 3:04
- "Suspended Animation" – 3:09
- "Sad Song" (Ken Middler, Mason) – 2:52
- "It's So Different Here" – 2:45
- "Cuckoo Clock" – 2:45
- "Pin a Medal on Mary" (Will Birch, John Wicks) – 3:05
- "Stranger in the House" (Elvis Costello) – 4:05
Personnel
- Rachel Sweet - Vocals
- Lene Lovich - Background vocals
- Liam Sternberg - Producer, songwriter
- Dave Mackay - Producer (Tracks 2 and 7)
- Barrie Guard - Producer (Tracks 2 and 7)
- Bob Painter - Engineer, Recording
- Roger Bechirian - Engineer, Recording, Mixing
- Buy Bidmead - Engineer, Recording, Mixing
- Charley Charles - Drums
- Mark Sugden - Drums, Percussion
- Norman Watt-Roy - Bass
- Pietro Nardini - Bass, Guitar, Keyboards
- Mickey Gallagher - Piano
- Brinsley Schwarz - Guitar
- Lia Sweet - Percussion
- Dick Hanson - Trumpet
- Ray Bevis - Tenor Saxophone
- John "Irish" Earle - Baritone Saxophone
- Paul Gillieron - Soprano Saxophone, Pennywhistle
- Chris Glover - Trombone
References
- ^ Hamlin, Andrew. Fool Around at Allmusic. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (July 30, 1979). "Christgau's Consumer Guide: Rachel Sweet Fool Around". The Village Voice. http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv7-79.php. Retrieved 30 November 2011. Revised version posted at "Rachel Sweet: Fool Around > Consumer Album Guide". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2854. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
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