The Whole World's Goin' Crazy is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

 April Wine

April Wine

April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...

, released in 1976 (See 1976 in music

1976 in music

-January–February:*January 5 – Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determine is an air rifle....

). With the release of this album Steve Lang

Steve Lang

Steve Lang is a Canadian musician best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984. Lang replaced then-bassist Jim Clench in 1976. When April Wine reformed in 1993, Steve Lang was not amongst the line-up.Steve Lang is also the father of Canadian musician Erin...

 had replaced Jim Clench

Jim Clench

Jim Clench , was a Canadian bassist best known for his roles in the Canadian rock bands April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.- With April Wine :...

 on bass. It reached #1 in Canada on the RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

national album chart on May 8, 1976, and remained there for two weeks. The album was the first in Canadian history to have platinum advanced sales orders.

Canadian release

1. "Gimme Love" (M. Goodwyn, Hovaness "Johnny" Hagopian) – 4:00
2. "So Bad" – 3:26
3. "Wings of Love" – 4:51
4. "We Can be More than We Are" (M. Goodwyn, J. Henman)
5. "Rock n' Roll Woman" – 3:44
6. "Shotdown" – 3:39
7. "Like a Lover, Like a Song" – 5:12
8. "Kick Willy Road" – 3:22
9. "The Whole World's Goin' Crazy – 2:40

U.S. release

1. "Gimme Love" (M. Goodwyn, Hovaness "Johnny" Hagopian)
2. "Child's Garden"
3. "Rock n' Roll Woman"
4. "Wings of Love"
5. "Marjorie"
6. "So Bad"
7. "Shotdown"
8. "Like a Lover, Like a Song"
9. "Kick Willy Road"
10. "The Whole World's Goin' Crazy"

Personnel

• Myles Goodwyn
  Myles Goodwyn
  Myles Goodwyn is a record producer, guitarist, lead vocalist, main songwriter, founding member of the veteran Canadian hard rock band April Wine and father of the electronic artist Aaron Goodwyn...
  
   – 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...
  
  , lead vocals,
• Gary Moffet – guitar, vocals
• Jerry Mercer
  Jerry Mercer
  Jerry Mercer is a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with the groups Mashmakhan and April Wine.-Personal life:...
  
   – 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...
  
  , vocals
• Steve Lang
  Steve Lang
  Steve Lang is a Canadian musician best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984. Lang replaced then-bassist Jim Clench in 1976. When April Wine reformed in 1993, Steve Lang was not amongst the line-up.Steve Lang is also the father of Canadian musician Erin...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  

Guest musician

• Frank Marino
  Frank Marino
  Frank Marino , born November 20, 1954, in Montreal, is the guitarist and leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.-Biography and career:After playing drums since he was five,...
  
  – guitar on "So Bad"