SHEENA EASTON - ALMOST OVER YOU

ALMOST OVER YOU

SHEENA EASTON

SONGWRITER: Jennifer K. Kimball & Cindy Diane Richardson

COUNTRY: SCOTLAND

ALBUM: BEST KEPT SECRET

LABEL: ONE WAY RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 1983

 

         Sheena Shirley Easton(née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress. Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.

         Easton's first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5", both entered the UK Top Ten. She became one of the most successful British female performers of the 1980s.

         A six-time Grammy nominee in the US, Easton is a two-time Grammy Award winner, winning Best New Artist in 1982 and Best Mexican-American Performance in 1985, for her duet with Luis Miguel on the song "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres". She has received five US Gold albums and one US Platinum album. She has recorded 15 studio albums, released 45 singles total worldwide, and had 20 consecutive US singles, including 15 US Top 40 singles, seven US Top Tens and one US #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991. She had 25 top 40 hits internationally. In Canada, Easton scored three gold and two platinum albums. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide.

Easton became the first and only recording artist in Billboard history to have a top 5 hit on each of Billboard's primary singles charts: "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" (pop and AC), "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers(country and AC), and "Sugar Walls" (R&B and dance).

        Easton's other hits include the James Bond theme "For Your Eyes Only", "Strut", "U Got the Look" and "The Arms of Orion" with Prince, "The Lover in Me", and "What Comes Naturally". She has worked with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid & Babyface, Patrice Rushen, and Nile Rodgers.

        Best Kept Secret is the fourth album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. It was released in 1983 on EMI Records.

            Easton's first album to be recorded entirely in the United States, Best Kept Secret was produced by Greg Mathieson, Jay Graydon, and Trevor Veitch. Easton had planned to collaborate again with Christopher Neil, the London-based producer of her previous three albums, but it had eventuated that she and Neil had disparate ideas regarding her new album's material and style. Easton had also hoped that David Foster, who had produced her interim hit duet with Kenny Rogers, "We've Got Tonight", would produce some solo tracks for her, but Foster's schedule did not permit this.

       The songs on Best Kept Secret alternated between dance tracks in the Eurodisco style of the recent Laura Branigan hit "Gloria"— which Mathieson/Graydon/Veitch had been responsible for— and ballads. The album's lead single was the dance track "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" which became Easton's third solo hit to reach the US Top Ten with a Nº 9 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Grammy nominated. The second single was the ballad "Almost Over You" (Nº 25) and another rock track "Devil in a Fast Car" was subsequently issued as a single to reach Nº 79.

I saw an old friend of ours today

She asked about you, I didn't quite know what to say

Heard you've been making the rounds 'round here

While I've been trying to make tears disappear

 

Now I'm almost over you

I've almost shook these blues

So when you come back around

After painting the town

You'll see I'm almost over you

 

You're such a sly one with your cold, cold heart

Maybe leaving came easy, but it tore me apart

"Time heals all wounds", they say, and I should know

'Cause it seems like forever, but I'm letting you go

 

Now I'm almost over you

I've almost shook these blues

So when you come back around

After painting the town

You'll see I'm almost over you

 

I can forgive you and soon I'll forget all my shattered dreams

Although you left me with nothing to show, full of misery

 

Now I'm almost over you

I've almost shook these blues

So when you come back around

After painting the town

You'll see I'm almost over you

 

When you come back around

After painting the town

You'll see I'm almost over you.