Sweetheart's Dance

Sweetheart's Dance
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Studio album by Pam Tillis
Released	April 26, 1994 (1994-04-26)
Genre	Country
Length	33:03
Label	Arista
Producer	Pam Tillis Steve Fishell
Pam Tillis chronology
Homeward Looking Angel (1992)Homeward Looking Angel1992 Sweetheart's Dance (1994) All of This Love (1995)All of This Love1995

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Sweetheart's Dance is a 1994 album from American country music singer Pam Tillis. It is her highest ranking album on the Billboard charts, at number 6.

This album produced five singles: "When You Walk in the Room" (a cover of a Jackie DeShannon song), "Spilled Perfume", "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)", "I Was Blown Away" and "In Between Dances". Respectively, these reached #2, #5, #1, #16, and #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "I Was Blown Away" was withdrawn from radio after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Track listing

1. "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" (Pam Tillis, Jess Leary) – 2:51
2. "Sweetheart's Dance" (Doug Gill) – 3:39
3. "Calico Plains" (Matraca Berg, Mike Noble) – 3:47
4. "When You Walk in the Room" (Jackie DeShannon) – 2:44
5. "Spilled Perfume" (Tillis, Dean Dillon) – 3:53
6. "I Was Blown Away" (Layng Martine, Jr.) – 2:45
7. "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To" (Roger Brown, Jason Sellers) – 2:57
8. "In Between Dances" (Craig Bickhardt, Barry Alfonso) – 3:21
9. "Better Off Blue" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge) – 2:52
10. "Til All the Lonely's Gone" (Tillis, Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill) – 3:55
    • duet vocals: Mel Tillis

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

• John Jorgenson – electric guitar, mandolin, acoustic guitar solo on "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)"
• Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Greg Leisz – steel guitar, electric rhythm guitar, Dobro
• Brent Mason, George Marinelli – electric guitar
• Bob DiPiero – 12-string guitar on "When You Walk in the Room"
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Sam Bush – fiddle
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Bill Monroe – mandolin solo on "Til All the Lonely's Gone"
• Steve Nathan – piano
• Bobby Ogdin – synthesizer
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano, accordion
• Mike Brignardello, Willie Weeks – bass guitar
• Milton Sledge – drums, percussion
• Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion
• Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica
• Harry Stinson – percussion
• Pam Tillis – lead vocals, background vocals
• Mel Tillis – duet vocals on "Til All the Lonely's Gone"
• Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey - vocal backing on "When You Walk in the Room"
• Ashley Cleveland, Vicki Hampton, Liana Manis - vocal backing on "Better Off Blue"
• Vince Gill - vocal backing on "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To"
• Mary Ann Kennedy - vocal backing on "Spilled Perfume"
• Suzy Ragsdale - vocal backing on "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" and "I Was Blown Away"
• Harry Stinson - vocal backing on "Sweetheart's Dance"
• Cindy Tillis Westmoreland, Connie Tillis Howden, Mel Tillis Jr. - vocal backing on "'Til All the Lonely's Gone"

Production

• Produced By Steve Fishell & Pam Tillis
• Engineered By Graham Lewis & Mike Poole, with assistance by Tony Collins, Eric Elwell, Steve Henning & Ed Simonton
• Mixed By Chuck Ainlay, with assistance by Graham Lewis
• Digital Editing: Don Cobb & Carlos Grier
• Mastered By Denny Purcell

Chart performance

Chart (1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
U.S. Billboard 200	51