Songs From The Warehouse - The Hits Rewired Russ Ballard

• 1 Resurrection 03:16
• 2 Courageous 03:15
• 3 Journey Man 03:24
• 4 The One Who Breathes Me 04:28
• 5 The Wild 03:55
• 6 Charlatan 03:28
• 7 Soul Music 04:15
• 8 Sleepwalking 03:12
• 9 Last Man Standing 03:32
• 10 Make Believe World 03:04
• 11 The Family Way 04:49
• 12 Fearless 02:42
• 13 The Last Amen 03:48
• 14 Since You've Been Gone 03:34
• 15 Winning 03:17
• 16 God Gave Rock and Roll to you 05:01
• 17 Voices 04:51
• 18 New York Groove 03:12
• 19 You Can Do Magic 04:11
• 20 Liar 03:41
• 21 I Know There's Something Going on 04:20
• 22 I Surrender 04:02
• 23 No More the Fool 04:16
• 24 So You Win Again 04:19
• 25 Free me 03:31
• 26 On the Rebound 03:23
• Total Runtime 01:38:46

Info for Songs From The Warehouse - The Hits Rewired

Russ Ballard is simply one of the most renowned and gifted songwriters in Pop and Rock music. During the 70’s and 80’s his songs ruled the airwaves and the list of hits is pretty much endless. From 'Since You Been Gone' (Rainbow), 'God Gave Rock'n'Roll To You' (Argent and Kiss), 'So You Win Again' (Hot Chocolate), 'New York Groove' (Hello and Ace Frehley), ‘You Can Do Magic’ (America), ‘Winning’ (Santana) or ‘I Don’t Believe In Miracles’ (Colin Blunstone) – just to name a few – everyone who needed a great song knew that with Russ Ballard they could not go wrong.

Numerous records/artists were also produced by him, like Roger Daltrey, America, Elkie Brooks, Skindred or Sada Vidoo and he started a solo career (after his stint with the band Argent in early 70’s) in 1974 which had its highest momentum with the “S/t” album in 1984 (which included the hit single “Voices”) and the follow up “The Fire Still Burns”.

He released a total of 10 studio albums and is now back with two albums in one: “Songs from the Warehouse / The Hits Rewired”.

The first album is made up of new songs which show once again that the inspiration never left Russ. The second includes brand new recordings of Russ Ballard hits either penned or performed by him during the years. You just need to look at the titles and will immediately recognize the track.

Russ Ballard

Russ Ballard
(born 31 October 1945, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, UK) is an gifted multi-talented English singer-songwriter, arranger, producer and musician. His most productive period was from the mid 60s until the early 80s.

Ballard was initially a guitarist with Buster Meikle & The Day Breakers in 1961, together with Roy Ballard, Russ's older brother on piano and Bob Henrit on drums. After a stint with The Roulettes, backing Adam Faith, he then went on to join Unit 4 + 2 (also Unit Four Plus Two) in the early 1960s, before becoming the lead singer and guitarist of Argent, writing their hit the rock-anthem God Gave Rock and Roll to You, which would later be covered by both Petra and Kiss.

In 1972, Ballard performed on The Zombies frontman Colin Blunstone's album Ennismore, which was produced by Chris White. Ballard also wrote the hit single, I Don't Believe in Miracles, which featured on that album.

He left Argent in 1973 and pursued a solo and songwriting career. He wrote such hits as Three Dog Night's Liar, Hot Chocolate's 1977 UK chart topper So You Win Again, and Rainbow's Since You Been Gone (also featured on Ballard's second solo album Winning) and I Surrender.

As a solo artist, Ballard charted once on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, when "On the Rebound" reached #58 in 1980. Progressive rock band Uriah Heep covered On the Rebound in 1982 on their album, Abominog.

Ballard also wrote and performed on The Who's vocalist Roger Daltrey's first two solo albums - Daltrey (1973) and Ride a Rock Horse (1975) and produced several singles.British pop band Hello recorded Ballard's New York Groove in 1975, reaching #7 in Germany and #9 in the UK.

In 1978 New York Groove would again feature on KISS' lead-guitarist Ace Frehley's solo album and be a hit once more.Ballard also wrote the #17, 1981 hit for Santana, called Winning, which appeared on their album entitled Zebop! and had previously been released by Ballard himself on his second solo album.

Ballard wrote and produced You Can Do Magic for the group America. The single climbed to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1982, and helped resurrect the band's career. The following year, America brought in Ballard to produce their follow-up album, Your Move.

One of its tracks, The Border, which was co-written by Ballard with Dewey Bunnell, reached #33 on the Billboard Hot 100.Borrowing from The Cure's Simon Gallup's 1981 "Other Voices" bass riff, Ballard wrote ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad's 1982 solo hit: I Know There's Something Going On (with drums played by Phil Collins).

The track reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. He also penned Can't Shake Loose for fellow ABBA former member, Agnetha Fältskog, which peaked at #29 in the same listings.His song Voices - from the album Russ Ballard - was featured on the Miami Vice episode entitled "Calderone's Return: Part 2 - Calderone's Demise", which aired on 26 October 1984.

The song was a brief hit on rock radio stations, peaking at #15 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. However, "Voices" stalled below the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #110. The song In The Night (also from the Russ Ballard album), was also featured in Miami Vice, and included in the episode entitled "Calderone's Return: Part 1 - The Hit List".

The show also featured Your Time Is Gonna Come by Ballard and recorded by Roger Daltrey for the movie soundtrack: McVicar.The Fire Still Burns, the title track of his 1985 album attained #15 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

In 1991 the song he co-wrote with John Waite (The Babys) and Jonathan Cain, So This Is Eden, appeared on Bad English's album, Backlash.Ballard has also written and produced for Elkie Brooks, and more recently, acting as a talent scout, he "discovered" Lauren Harris.

Other artists he's worked with or have covered songs written by him include Bay City Rollers, Pointer Sisters, Carol Douglas, Clout, Kandidate, Long John Baldry, Peter Criss (KISS drummer), The Cats, Bruce Dickinson, The Brian May Band to name a few.

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