Hello, I Must Be Going!

Hello, I Must Be Going!
Studio album by Phil Collins
Released	November 1, 1982 CD issue: June 1988
Recorded	May - September 1982
Genre	Soft Rock
Length	45:03
Label	Virgin (UK/Ireland) Atlantic (North America) WEA (rest of the world)
Producer	Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham
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Phil Collins chronology
Face Value (1981) Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982) No Jacket Required (1985)

Hello, I Must Be Going! is the second studio album by British singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was originally released November 1, 1982 and a CD version released in 1988. This album's name comes from the Marx Brothers' song with the same name, featured in the movie Animal Crackers. The album was promoted with a tour of the same name

One of the highlights of the album is the cover version of the Supremes hit "You Can't Hurry Love", which is one of Collins' best-known singles, although none of the other single releases from the album made any significant impact on the charts. Other notable tracks include the modern-jazz instrumental "The West Side", and "Thru These Walls", a dark voyeuristic song about a man listening through the wall to his neighbors partaking in unseemly nighttime activities -- or at least that's what he's imagining at the time.

The more upbeat tracks serve as a preamble to the more commercial sound of the next album No Jacket Required. The album takes much of its inspiration from the problems in Collins' personal life, most notably the painful divorce he was going through at the time. This accounts for the dark and embittered tone on several of the tracks, including the single "I Don't Care Anymore". Co-produced with Hugh Padgham, the gated reverb sound of the drum kit is employed in full yet again, with a mixture of very dry drum sounds on tracks like "I Cannot Believe It's True" in contrast to the huge acoustics used on "Do You Know, Do You Care?".

Track listing

All songs by Phil Collins except as noted.

Side one

1. "I Don't Care Anymore" - 5:00
2. "I Cannot Believe It's True" - 5:14
3. "Like China" - 5:05
4. "Do You Know, Do You Care?" - 4:57
5. "You Can't Hurry Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) - 2:50

Side two

1. "It Don't Matter to Me" - 4:12
2. "Thru These Walls" - 5:02
3. "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away" - 4:43
4. "The West Side" - 4:59
5. "Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning" - 3:01

Personnel and arrangements

• Phil Collins – vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, trumpet on "Do You Know Do You Care", bass pedals on tracks 1, 4 and 9, producer
• Daryl Stuermer - guitars
• John Giblin - bass guitar on tracks 2, 3, 5 and 8
• Mo Foster - bass guitar on tracks 6 and 7
• Michael Harris, Rahmlee Michael Davis - trumpet
• Don Myrick - saxophones
• Louis "Louie Louie" Satterfield - trombone
• Chester Thompson - drums (for the tour)

• Produced by Phil Collins
• Assisted by Hugh Padgham
• Engineered by Hugh Padgham
• Assisted by Howard Gray
• Thanks to Martyn Ford for extra mixing hands on the orchestral tracks
• Recorded at Old Croft On 1" 8 track,
• Overdubbed at 'The Farm' and 'Townhouse' May-June '82
• Strings recorded at CBS, Engineered by Mike Ross
• Main cover photo by Trevor Key
• Mastered by Ian Cooper
• The Mountain Fjord Orchestra was conducted by Martyn Ford and led by Garyn Wright.
• The Phenix Horns are Don Myrick - Tenor and Alto, Louis Satterfield - Trombone, Rhamlee Michael Davis - Trumpet Michael Harris - Trumpet, Arranged by Tom-Tom 84

External links

• Official artist website