Friday, November 20, 1998
Details on Amanda Marshall's
next album
By KAREN BLISS -- Jam! Music
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Canadian pop-adult singer Amanda Marshall has just finished recording and mixing the follow-up to her 1995 1.5 million selling debut.
The yet-to-be-titled new album was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Don Was and mixed by Bob Clearmountain.
While many songwriters and publishers submitted to the Toronto singer, Michael Roth, co-head of A&R at Sony Music Canada, says none was used. "She got into co-writing and wrote with a ton of people, from Carole King to Eric Bazillion to Mark Hudson, lots of well-known writers," says Roth. "She co-wrote 90 percent of the songs on the album."
None of those co-writers, however, are Canadian, unlike her self-titled debut, which was penned by numerous Canadian songwriters, including David Tyson, Christopher Ward, Dean McTaggert and Marc Jordan. Marshall is only credited with co-writing two songs, "Dark Horse" and "Let's Get Lost", and wrote "Sitting On Top Of The World" by herself.
According to Roth, sales of that album, which Elton John once said was one of his favourites, is approaching diamond status in Canada, signifying the one-million sales mark. "We're closing in on 900,000 (in Canada) and about 350,000 to 400,000 in the States and another half-a-million around the world."
Marshall currently has a brand new single out on the pop adult and contemporary hit radio charts called "Believe In You" from the Touched By An Angel soundtrack. The song will also appear on her sophomore album, tentatively scheduled for a March '99 release.