Black Velvet (album)
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Black Velvet is the third studio album released by American country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Robin Lee
Robin Lee (singer)
Robin Lee Irwin is an American country music artist, known professionally as Robin Lee or Robin Lee Bruce. After several years on an independent label, Lee broke through on the country music scene in 1990 with her cover of Alannah Myles' Number One pop single "Black Velvet"...

, and her first album for Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

. The album's title track is a cover of Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles is a Canadian singer-songwriter, the daughter of Canadian broadcast pioneer William Douglas Byles. In 1989, she released her eponymous debut album...

' Number One single from 1989. Lee's cover peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts in 1990, becoming her highest hit on that chart.

Track listing

  1. "Black Velvet
    Black Velvet (song)
    "Black Velvet" is a rock song written by Canadian musicians David Tyson and Christopher Ward, and recorded by Canadian singer Alannah Myles in 1988. It became a number one hit for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1990 and reached number one on the Album Rock Tracks chart, as well as...

    " (Christopher Ward
    Christopher Ward (songwriter)
    Christopher William Ward is a Canadian songwriter and broadcaster, known as a former long-standing on-air personality at MuchMusic, Canada's music video network, where he and J.D. Roberts were among the first video jockeys in 1984...

    , David Tyson
    David Tyson
    David Tyson is a Canadian rock music producer and songwriter. He is best known for co-writing Alannah Myles' 1990 #1 hit "Black Velvet" and producing her debut album. He also co-wrote 3 hit songs from Amanda Marshall's self-titled 1995 debut album.Tyson has won 3 Juno Awards for his work,...

    ) – 4:43
  2. "How About Goodbye" (Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler
    Thom Schuyler is an American songwriter. Schuyler wrote songs recorded by more than 200 various artists including "16th Avenue" for Lacy J. Dalton, "Love Will Turn You Around" for Kenny Rogers, and "Long Line of Love" for Michael Martin Murphey.In 1983, Schuyler signed to Capitol Records and...

    ) – 3:05
  3. "He's Helping Me Get Over You" (Ava Aldridge, Cindy Walker) – 3:00
  4. "When the Feeling Comes Around" (Rick Cunha) – 3:30
  5. "Younger Love" (Pam "Sunny" Russ) – 2:58
  6. "Love Letter" (Bonnie Hayes) – 3:56
  7. "Something I Know I'm Gonna Love" (Rafe VanHoy, Deborah Allen
    Deborah Allen
    Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...

    , Eddie Struzick) – 3:45
  8. "Every Little Bit Hurts" (Walt Aldridge
    Walt Aldridge
    Walt Aldridge is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter...

    , Tommy Brasfield) – 2:56
  9. "Till I Get It Right" (W. Aldridge, Lisa Angelle
    Lisa Angelle
    Lisa Angelle is an American country music singer-songwriter. During the 1980s and 1990s, Angelle wrote songs for several country artists including Wynonna Judd, who reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1991 with "I Saw the Light", co-written by pop singer...

    ) – 3:09
  10. "Sad Eyes" (R. J. Pedrick) – 3:40

Musical credits

  • Michael Black – background vocals
  • Larry Byrom – electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Jim Ferguson – background vocals
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

    , Dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

  • Billy Hullett – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Clayton Ivey – keyboards
  • Jerry Kroon – drums
    Drum kit
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    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Robin Lee – lead and background vocals
  • Gary Lunn – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Kim Morrison – background vocals
  • Ron "Snake" Reynolds – percussion
  • Brent Rowan – electric guitar
  • Harry Stinson – background vocals
  • John Willis – acoustic guitar
  • Lonnie Wilson – background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson – background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1990) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 23
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