Mary Margaret O'Hara

Miss America

Virgin Records VL2559 1988 12" 33rpm (Canada)

AllMusic:  Originally recorded in 1984 and not released until 1988, Miss America still sounds light years ahead of its time: Mary Margaret O'Hara is a force of nature, a remarkable singer and composer whose crystal-clear soprano acrobatics and hypnotic songs defy accepted conventions. Flirting intermittently with country ("Anew Day," "Dear Darling") and jazz ("Keeping You in Mind"), O'Hara works primarily with pop dynamics, but deconstructs and reassembles the form according to her own blueprint: "Year in Song" is jaggedly intense, "To Cry About" is gorgeously ambient, and "Body's in Trouble" is delicately gripping, yet none conform easily to such facile assessments, with hairpin turns in mood and atmosphere which blindside expectations. Following instead its own abstract internal logic, Miss America is a work of mad-scientist genius, and it remains a singular experience.

Tracklist
A1 To Cry About
Bass [Elias 5-string] – David Piltch
Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
Guitar [Infinite Guitar] – Michael Brook
1:55
A2 The Year In Song
Bass – Hendrik Riik
Drums – Michael Sloski
Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
5:18
A3 Body's In Trouble
Bass – Hendrik Riik
Drums – Bruce Moffet
Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
Piano – Bill Whelan
Violin – Hugh Marsh
4:59
A4 Dear Darling
Acoustic Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
Bass – Hendrik Riik
Drums – Michael Sloski
Lap Steel Guitar [Lap Steel] – Don Rooke
3:48
A5 A New Day
Bass [Elias 5-string] – David Piltch
Drums – Michael Sloski
Guitar – Michael Brook
Piano – John Sheard
Rhythm Guitar – Don Rooke
Violin – Hugh Marsh
3:11
A6 When You Know Why You're Happy
Bass [Elias 5-string] – David Piltch
Drums – Michael Sloski
Guitar – Michael Brook, Rusty McCarthy
Lap Steel Guitar [Lap Steel] – Don Rooke
4:33
B1 My Friends Have
Bass – Hendrik Riik
Drums – Michael Sloski
Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
3:09
B2 Help Me Lift You Up
Acoustic Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar [Lap Steel] – Don Rooke
Bass – Hendrik Riik
Electric Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
4:34
B3 Keeping You In Mind
Bass – David Piltch
Drums – Michael Sloski
Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
Piano – John Sheard
Violin – Hugh Marsh
4:37
B4 Not Be Alright
Bass [Elias 5-string] – David Piltch
Drums – Michael Sloski
Guitar – Rusty McCarthy
Keyboards [DX-7 Log Rhythm] – Hugh Marsh
5:11
B5 You Will Be Loved Again
Double Bass [String Bass] – David Piltch
3:34

Manufactured By – Virgin Records Canada Inc.
Distributed By – Virgin Records Canada Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Virgin Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Yet Courier
Pressed By – Cinram
Printed By – Ever Reddy
Published By – Yet Courier
Recorded At – Rockfield Studios
Recorded At – Phase One Studios
Recorded At – Comfort Sound
Mixed At – Comfort Sound
Mixed At – Windmill Lane Studios
Mastered At – The Town House

Artwork [Album Artwork] – M²O'H
Engineer [Additional] – Bill Kennedy, Garth Richardson, Mick Walsh, Randy Staub
Engineer [Assistant] – Evan Caulford, Kevin Markland, Rhonda Bruce, Richard Schiller
Executive-Producer – Jody Colero
Mixed By – Kevin Killen (tracks: A3), Mary Margaret O'Hara (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B5), Michael Brook (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B5)
Photography By, Art Direction – Don Rooke, Heather Cameron
Producer – Mary Margaret O'Hara, Michael Brook
Recorded By [Comfort Sound] – Stephen Traub
Recorded By [Phase One Studios] – Joe Primeau, Paul Gross (tracks: A3)
Recorded By [Rockfield Studios] – Paul Cobbold
Written-By, Arranged By – Mary Margaret O'Hara

Cat# on back cover, spine & printed lyrics inner sleeve: VL 2559
Cat# on labels: VL2559

On back cover:
Distributed by/Distribué par Virgin Records Canada Inc.
Made in Canada
© & ℗ 1988 Virgin Records Ltd.

On spine:
Ever Reddy logo
Printed in Canada

On printed lyrics inner sleeve:
Recorded ... at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales; ... at Phase One Studios, Toronto, Canada; and ... at Comfort Sound, Toronto, Canada.
[A3] was recorded ... at Phase One Studios and mixed .. at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Eire
Mastered at Townhouse, London, England.
Hugh Marsh appears courtesy of Duke Street Records; Michael Brook appears courtesy of 4 A.D. Records
Words and music © 1988 Yet Courier
© & ℗ 1988 Virgin Records Ltd.

On labels:
MAPL icon indication 100% CanCon
Published by Yet Courier
℗ 1988 Virgin Records Ltd.
Made in Canada. Manufactured by/Fabriqué par Virgin Records Canada Inc.

12" Vinyl is NEAR MINT in a printed paper lyric inner sleeve in a hard card picture sleeve that is NEAR MINT

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
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