Fireball Zone
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Fireball Zone was the third solo album from Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek is an American musician and music producer. He is best known as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band, The Cars....

, the lead singer-songwriter of The Cars
The Cars
The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...

.

Tracks

All songs written by Ric Ocasek except where noted.
  1. "Rockaway"
  2. "Touch Down Easy" (Ric Ocasek/Rick Nowels
    Rick Nowels
    Richard Wright Nowels Jr. is a Grammy / Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter/producer who has worked with many of the most vibrant artists in contemporary music...

    )
  3. "Come Back"
  4. "The Way You Look Tonight"
  5. "All We Need Is Love"
  6. "Over and Over"
  7. "Flowers of Evil"
  8. "They Tried"
  9. "Keep That Dream"
  10. "Balance"
  11. "Mister Meaner"
  12. "Fireball Zone"

Personnel

  • Ric Ocasek
    Ric Ocasek
    Ric Ocasek is an American musician and music producer. He is best known as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band, The Cars....

     - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Nile Rodgers
    Nile Rodgers
    Nile Gregory Rodgers is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist.-Biography:...

     - Guitar
  • Larry Mitchell
    Larry Mitchell
    Larry Paul Mitchell was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1996.-External links:...

     - Guitar
  • Dann Huff
    Dann Huff
    Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...

     - Guitar
  • Steve Elson - horns
    Horn (instrument)
    The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....

  • Stan Harrison
    Stan Harrison
    Stan Harrison is an American saxophonist who is also accomplished in playing other woodwind instruments, namely the horn, flute and clarinet. He has also written music for television. Harrison released his first solo album The Ties That Blind in 2000 on his own record label...

     - Horns
  • Matt Collehon - Horns
  • Richard Hilton
    Richard Hilton
    Richard Howard "Rick" Hilton is an American entrepreneur and hotelier. He is the Chairman and co-founder of Hilton & Hyland, a real estate brokerages firm based in Beverly Hills that specializes in homes and estates in Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, Bel-Air, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and...

     - Keyboards
  • Al Berry - Bass Guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Larry Aberman - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Tawatha Agee - backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Fonzi Thornton
    Fonzi Thornton
    Fonzi Thornton, is an American singer, song writer/producer, stage performer and radio personality.Thornton has provided background vocals on albums by artists which include Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Chic, Sheena Easton, Mariah Carey, David Bowie, Michael Jackson,...

     - Backing vocals
  • Curtis King Jr. - Backing vocals
  • Dennis Collins - Backing vocals
  • Katherine Miller - Engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

  • Hiro Ishihara - Engineer
  • Dave Schiffman - Engineer
  • Justin Luchter - Engineer
  • Jon Goldberger - Engineer
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