Glass Tiger "Simple Mission (Canada, EMI Of Canada, 7 92922 2)"

Simple Mission is the third album by the Canadian band Glass Tiger, released in 1991.

The single "My Town" features Rod Stewart on lead vocals alongside Alan Frew, and reached No. 33 on the UK, marking the band's second highest position in that country. "Animal Heart" received a Juno Award nomination. The album was certified platinum in Canada.

The album was produced mostly by Tom Werman. Tony Thompson played drums on the majority of its tracks. The band attempted to incorporate rock styles alongside its pop.

The Toronto Star wrote: "By the fourth or fifth listen, one senses the pure, unvarnished Glass Tiger, and that's a band still very much rooted in the ethos of mid-'70s arena-rock, a hybrid of your basic REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Journey and Kansas." The Windsor Star noted that the album "has a raunchier, gutsier sound on most of the tunes, a conscious effort on their part to emphasize guitar rather than keyboards." The Edmonton Journal concluded that "every cut on this uneven effort is slathered with rackety electric guitar riffs and self-consciously aggressive vocals that ape everyone from Aerosmith's Steve Tyler to Corey Hart."

Track listing

1. "Blinded" Connelly, Frew, Dvoskin 4:38
2. "Animal Heart" Connelly, Frew, Dvoskin 3:50
3. "Let's Talk" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:23
4. "Where Did Our Love Go" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:31
5. "My Town" Connelly, Frew, Parker, Cregan 4:49
6. "The Rhythm of Your Love" Connelly, Frew 4:38
7. "Spanish Slumber" Frew, Reid 1:29
8. "Simple Mission" Frew, Reid 4:34
9. "Stand or Fall" Frew, Reid, Vallance, Sandford 3:59
10. "Rescued (By the Arms of Love)" Frew, Parker, Washbrook 4:16
11. "One to One" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:30
12. "One Night Alone" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:06
13. "(She Said) Love Me Like a Man" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:09

Produced by Tom Werman except:

track 5, produced by Tom Werman and Jim Cregan

track 7, produced by Sam Reid

track 11, produced by Tom Werman and Jim Vallance

Associate Producer: Sam Reid

Engineering: Eddie DeLena

Mixing: Eddie DeLena and David Thoener

Assistance: Neal Avron, Ed Goodreau, Greg Goldman, and Efren Herrera

Additional Engineering: Neal Avron

Recording: Jim Vallance

Mastering: Stephen Marcussen (Precision Lacquer, Los Angeles).

Glass Tiger "Diamond Sun (USA, EMI-Manhattan Records, CDP-7 48684-2)"

Diamond Sun is the second album by Canadian band Glass Tiger. It was released by EMI Manhattan Records on April 13, 1988. The album was certified triple platinum in Canada and featured the single "I'm Still Searching", which peaked at No. 2 in Canada. The album was produced by Jim Vallance.

Track listing

1. "Diamond Sun" Alan Frew/Jim Vallance   5:22
2. "Far Away From Here" Frew/Michael Hanson/Sam Reid   4:08
3. "I'm Still Searching" Frew/Hanson/Reid   3:58
4. "A Lifetime of Moments" Frew/Hanson   4:58
5. "It's Love U Feel"   Frew/Reid/Vallance   5:32
6. "My Song" (with The Chieftains) Frew/Reid/Vallance   3:26
7. "(Watching) Worlds Crumble" Frew/Reid/Vallance  4:53
8. "Send Your Love" Frew/Hanson   4:28
9. "Suffer in Silence" Frew/Reid   3:35
10. "This Island Earth"   Frew/Hanson/Reid  6:30

Total length: 46:54

Management: Derek Sutton (Los Angeles, California), Gary Pring, and Joe Bamford (Toronto, Ontario, CA)

Recording: Jim Vallance, Randy Staub, Tom Henderson, and Brian Masterson

Mixing: Ed Thacker

Assistance: Randy Staub, Paul Milner, Glen Robinson, Darren Millar, Joe Mancuso, and Ciaran Byrne

Producing on Track 6: Sam Reid

Mastering: Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, NY

Art Direction, Design, and Sculpture: Heather Brown

Photography: Douglas Brown

Group Photography: Alison Wardman

Glass Tiger "The Thin Red Line (Canada, Capitol Records Of Canada, 0 7777 46313 2 7)"

The Thin Red Line is the debut album by Canadian band Glass Tiger. It was released by Manhattan Records in Canada on February 17, 1986.

The album is most famous for the single "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)". The song, which featured backup vocals by Bryan Adams, reached #1 on the Canadian charts and #2 in the United States. A follow-up single, "Someday", was also successful, reaching #7 in the United States and #14 in Canada.

Both Greg Burliuk of the Kingston Whig-Standard and Evelyn Erskine of the Ottawa Citizen compared the album to Duran Duran. Erskine dismissed the album and opined that the band "has yet to find its own musical direction", while Burliuk called the album uneven but praised the singles "Don't Forget Me", "Someday" and "You're What I Look For".

The album was certified quadruple platinum in Canada, and went gold in the United States.

It debuted on the RPM100 album charts in RPM the week of March 1, 1986, and peaked at #3 on the charts in the week of April 26. It remained in the top 100 for 67 weeks overall, concluding its chart run in the week of July 20, 1987. In the magazine's year-end charts, it placed as the 16th top-selling album of 1986, and the 27th top-selling album of 1987. It was named the 14th top-selling album of the year in The Record's year-end chart for 1986.

In the United States, the album peaked at #27 in the Billboard 200 in the week of February 7, 1987.

At the Juno Awards of 1986, the album won the Juno Award for Album of the Year. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" also won for Single of the Year, and the band won Most Promising Group. "Someday" won Single of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1987, the first time in the award's history that the same artist won the award in two consecutive years for singles from the same album.

At the Grammy Awards in 1987, the band were nominated for Best New Artist.

The band swept the Rock Express magazine reader's poll in 1987, winning Top Canadian Group, Top Canadian Album for The Thin Red Line, and Top Canadian Single for "Don't Forget Me"

The album was remastered and reissued as a special anniversary edition double CD on June 19, 2012 by EMI Music Canada. In addition to the remastered album on the first disc, the second disc collects thirteen additional tracks including remixes, demos, single mixes, B-sides and live versions. A booklet with extensive liner notes is also included.

Track listing

1. "Thin Red Line" Alan Frew/Sam Reid/Al Connelly  4:57
2. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" Frew/Reid/Jim Vallance   4:08
3. "Closer to You" Frew/Reid/Michael Hanson/Wayne Parker   3:37
4. "Vanishing Tribe"  Frew/Reid/Connelly/Hanson/Parker/Reid   4:06
5. "Looking at a Picture"  Frew/Reid/Connelly/Hanson/Parker/Gerald O'Brien  4:02 
6. "The Secret"   Frew/Reid   0:47
7. "Ancient Evenings" Frew/Connelly/Reid/Hanson/Parker  4:55
8. "Ecstasy"     Frew/Reid/Connelly   4:25
9. "Someday"   Frew/Connelly/Vallance   3:37
10. "I Will Be There" Frew/Connelly/Hanson  3:28
11. "You're What I Look For" Frew/Connelly/Hanson   3:50

Total length: 41:59

Engineering: Mike Jones, Paul Northfield, Jim Vallance, Lorne Feld, Mike Baskerville, Hayward Parrott, and Robin Brouwers

Assistance: Randy Staub, Angelo Civiero, Robert Digioia, and Steve Ibelshauser

Mixing: Ed Thacker and Sam Reid ("The Secret")

Producing on "The Secret": Sam Reid

Mastering: Bob Ludwig

Photography: Deborah Samuel

Design: Heather Brown

Cover Concept Deborah Samuel and Dal Heslip

Logo: Shoot That Tiger!

Glass Tiger "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) (Single & Video)"

"Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" is a song by Canadian rock band Glass Tiger. It was released in January 1986 as the lead from their debut album, The Thin Red Line. The song reached number-one in Canada and number 2 in the United States. The song features backing vocals by rock singer Bryan Adams.

In 1985, Glass Tiger chose Jim Vallance to produce the band's debut album. At the time, Vallance was primarily known as a songwriter, having written most frequently (and successfully) with Bryan Adams (who can be heard providing background vocals towards the end of this song). He also had some previous production experience, having produced one album apiece for Adams, Doug and the Slugs and CANO in the early 1980s. The band's lead vocalist Alan Frew recalled: "It worked out great because we were all at the same stage of development. He didn't change the sound of the band at all. He let us experiment but wasn't afraid to get heavy-handed when he had to." Vallance composed "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" with the band, while Adams provided backing vocals. Frew - "On the very first day that we met Jim Vallance, he picked us up at the airport and to break the ice asked us what we were listening to. One was Tears for Fears. We went to his house and drank tea and listened to some tunes. 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' came on and we really liked the shuffle beat. So we went into the studio and based on this shuffle beat, we wrote 'Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)'. First day, first song."

"Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" topped the Canadian RPM Top 100 in March 1986, and spent two weeks at number 1. The single was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association in July. The song entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in July, peaked at number 2 in October - kept from number 1 by Janet Jackson's "When I Think of You" - and spent 24 weeks on the chart. It reached number 1 on the Singles Sales chart and number 6 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. The song also peaked at number 17 on the Mainstream Rock chart, number 30 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and number 34 on the Billboard Year-End singles chart of 1986. The single reached the top 10 in Australia, number 27 in New Zealand, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and number 40 in the Netherlands.

Frew credited the song's chart performance to "solid record company involvement" and the band's international appeal. "We aren't rewriting musical history by any means," he added. "But our melody lines are strong and mature enough to appeal to the English-speaking world." The song won the 1986 Juno Award for Single of the Year, and was named top Canadian single in the Rock Express magazine readers' poll awards in 1987. In 1996, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada honored the song for airing more than 100,000 times on Canadian radio. Glass Tiger performed the song during an episode of the 2005 NBC reality television program Hit Me, Baby, One More Time.

The song's original music video, made for the Canadian market, mixed performance footage with a storybook concept. Directed by Rob Quartly, the video was nominated for Best Video at the Juno Awards of 1986. This version was the first video to air on the MuchMoreRetro digital cable music video channel when it launched on September 4, 2003. A second video was created for other markets, according to Manhattan Records Vice President of A&R Bruce Garfield. He noted that "Steven Reed, our senior vice president of marketing, took a very strong stand because the Canadian video was too cutesy and directed solely toward the youth market." Garfield added, "It didn't focus enough on the artistic integrity and entertainment aspect of the band." The newer version, which has a concert setting, received heavy rotation on MTV.

Track listing

7" Vinyl (Canada, Australia, Europe, U.S.)

1. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" – 4:05
2. "Ancient Evenings" – 4:50

12" Vinyl (Canada)

1. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" (extended version) – 7:10
2. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" (single mix) – 4:05
3. "Do You Wanna Dance (With Me)" – 3:58

Glass Tiger "Someday (Single & Video)"

"Someday" is a song by Canadian band Glass Tiger. It was released on 1986 as the third single from their debut studio album The Thin Red Line through Capitol Records in Canada and Manhattan Records worldwide. The song was written by members Alan Frew and Al Connelly and by producer Jim Vallance. "Someday" also won a Juno Award in the category Single of the Year.

Following the success of "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)", "Someday" reached No. 14 on Canada's RPM Top 100 and it was also a success in the U.S., reaching No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, while reaching lower positions in other countries.

"Someday" is a mid-tempo pop rock ballad written by Alan Frew, Al Connelly and Jim Vallance. The track runs at 100 BPM and is in the key of D major. It runs at three minutes and thirty-seven seconds in the album version.

The music video for "Someday" was directed by Storm Thorgerson, who had also directed the "Thin Red Line" clip previously. The clip shows Alan Frew discussing with his "girlfriend" through a telephone call, alternating with scenes of the band performing the song.

Track listing
7" single

1. "Someday" 3:34
2. "Vanishing Tribe" 3:59

12" single

1. "Someday" (Extended Remix) 7:19
2. "Someday" (Dub Mix) 6:26
3. "Someday" 3:34