Shaky (album)

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Shaky
Shaky album.jpg
Studio album by
Shakin' Stevens
Released4 September 1981
Recorded1981
Studio Eden Studios, London
Genre
Length39:04
Label Epic
Producer Stuart Colman
Shakin' Stevens chronology
This Ole House
(1980)		Shaky
(1981)		 Give Me Your Heart Tonight
(1982)
Singles from Shaky
  1. "You Drive Me Crazy"
    Released: 24 April 1981
  2. "Green Door"
    Released: 17 July 1981
  3. "It's Raining"
    Released: 2 October 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Smash Hits 8/10 [3]

Shaky is an album released by Shakin' Stevens in 1981. Released at the peak of his popularity, Shaky was the first and, to date, only UK number 1 album for Shakin' Stevens. The album features three top ten singles, most notably Green Door, which enjoyed a month at number one during the summer of 1981. Despite Shaky's reputation as a rock and roll cover artist, the album contained five of his own compositions as well as the original song "You Drive Me Crazy", which spent four weeks at number two in the UK singles chart in the spring of 1981. A cover of "It's Raining", released in the autumn, also managed to reach the top ten in the UK.

Contents

Produced by Stuart Colman, the album retained most of the musicians from Shaky's previous album, notably Mickey Gee, BJ Cole and Geraint Watkins, and was again recorded at the Eden Studios in Chiswick.

The album was issued in Australia under the title Green Door with a slightly different track listing where it was also released on CD in the early 1990s. In Europe, it was only officially released on CD for the first time in 2009 as part of The Epic Masters box set.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mona Lisa" Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 2:15
2."You Drive Me Crazy"Ronnie Harwood2:49
3."I'm Knockin'"Shakin' Stevens2:50
4."It's Raining" Naomi Neville 3:18
5."Don't She Look Good" Joey Spampinato 2:09
6."Green Door" Bob Davie, Marvin Moore3:09
7."Don't Bug Me Baby"Leon Luallen, Johnny Bragg2:50
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" Don Gibson 2:29
2."I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young 3:21
3."This Time" Chips Moman 2:50
4."Baby You're A Child"Stevens2:35
5."Don't Turn Your Back"Stevens2:59
6."Let Me Show You"Stevens2:49
7."I'm Looking"Stevens2:41

Personnel

Musicians

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [17] Platinum50,000^
Germany (BVMI) [18] Gold250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [19] Platinum300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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