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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]

Out of the Night is the first release by American hard rock band Great White in 1983.[3] It was independently released and sold more than 8,000 copies in less than three months, with the band supporting Dokken in their 1983 US tour.[4] This led to EMI picking up the band for their first full-length, self-titled LP. It was reissued as On Your Knees by Enigma Records in 1987, likely to capitalize on the band's growing popularity due to the album Once Bitten....

The songs also appeared on the US CD release of the live album Recovery: Live! and 3 of them ("Out of the Night", "On Your Knees" and "Dead End") appeared in the re-recorded versions on the debut LP.

Track listing

All songs by Jack Russell and Mark Kendall, except "Dead End" by Russell, Kendall, and Gary Holland

  1. "Out of the Night" – 2:14
  2. "On Your Knees" – 4:19
  3. "Last Time" – 3:42
  4. "No Way" – 2:57
  5. "Dead End" – 3:21

Personnel

Great White

  • Jack Russell – lead vocals
  • Mark Kendall – guitar, backing vocals
  • Lorne Black – bass
  • Gary Holland – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

  • Don Dokken, Michael Wagener, Alan Niven – backing vocals on "On Your Knees"
  • Mary Ulanskas – additional vocals on "On Your Knees"

Production

  • Michael Wagener – producer, engineer, mixing at Larrabee Sound Studios
  • Don Dokken – producer
  • Alan Niven – producer on "No Way", executive producer, management
  • Sabrina Buchanek – mixing assistant
  • Jack Hunt – mastering

References

  1. ^ a b Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Great White On Your Knees review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ^ "Great White – Out of the Night". Sleaze Roxx. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
  4. ^ "Mayhem!". Kerrang! (42): 10. May 19, 1983.
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