Sunshower is the debut album of Thelma Houston

Thelma Houston

Thelma Houston is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She scored a number-one hit in 1976 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.-Early life & career:Houston is the daughter of a cotton picking mother...

 released in 1969 on Dunhill Records

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Dunhill Records was started by Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts in 1964 as Dunhill Productions, originally for the purpose of releasing Johnny Rivers recordings on Imperial Records. It became a record label in 1965 and was distributed by ABC Records...

. It was produced by Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...

 and became a critically acclaimed album, it charted at #50 on the Billboard R&B charts.

Previous to signing at Dunhill Records, Houston had recorded three singles, in 1967 at Capitol Records

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, as lead vocalist of the group called The Art Reynolds Singers, none of these singles made any mark on the singles charts.
This album also provided four singles; "Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon", "Sunshower", "If This Was The Last Song" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
Houston recorded several other tracks while signed to Dunhill, these were issued on an expanded CD re-issue of Sunshower in 2010 by the Soulmusic.com label.

Track listing

For the 1969 album release on Dunhill Records; Dunhill DS-50054

Side One:

1. "Sunshower (From His Own Dark City)" - 3:17
2. "Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon" - 4:16
3. "To Make It Easier on You" - 4:42
4. "Didn't We" - 3:10
5. "(Crazy) Mixed Up Girl" - 4:15
6. "Someone Is Standing Outside" - 3:27

Side Two:

1. "Jumpin' Jack Flash
   Jumpin' Jack Flash
   "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1968. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London" by Rolling Stone, the song was perceived by some as the band's return to their blues roots after the psychedelia of their preceding...
   
   " (Mick Jagger
   Mick Jagger
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   , Keith Richards
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   ) - 3:25
2. "This Is Where I Came In" - 3:15
3. "Pocketful of Keys" - 3:03
4. "This Is Your Life" - 3:42
5. "Cheap Lovin'" - 3:30
6. "If This Was the Last Song" - 3:20

• All tracks composed and arranged by Jimmy Webb; except where indicated

CD Bonus tracks on 2010 Soulmusic.com re-issue; SMDC 05 CD

13. "Save the Country" - 1970 A-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records

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(Laura Nyro

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) - 2:47

14. "I Just Can't Stay Away" - 1970 B-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Harvey Price, Dan Walsch) - 2:16

15. "I Just Gotta be Me" - 1970 A-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Lambert, Potter) - 2:23

16. "Crying in the Sunshine" - 1970 B-side single release on Dunhill-ABC Records (Kliningman) - 2:51

17. "(The) Good Earth" - 1970 A-side UK single release only on EMI-Stateside Records

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(Karen O’Har, Denny McReynolds) - 3:01

18. "Ride Louis, Ride (Change in Louise)" - 1970 B-side UK single release only on EMI-Stateside Records (Joe Cocker

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, Chris Stainton) - 2:38

Personnel

• Thelma Houston - vocals
• Hal Blaine
  Hal Blaine
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   - drums, percussion
• Joe Osborn
  Joe Osborn
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   - bass
• Ginger Blake - background vocals
• Fred Tackett
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   - guitar
• Patrice Holloway
  Patrice Holloway
  Patrice Holloway was an African-American soul and pop singer.-Career:Patrice Yvonne Holloway was born on March 23, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of three children born to Wade Holloway, Sr. and his wife, the former Johnnie Mae Fossett...
  
   - background vocals
• Mike Deasy Sr. - guitar
• Larry Knechtel
  Larry Knechtel
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   - harpsichord, organ
• Sid Sharp - concert master
• Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews
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  - background vocals