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- Date Released: January 1, 1978
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Lifesong / The Orchard
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The 1970s weren't overly kind to Dion. After his reunion with the Belmonts early in the decade, he returned to his "real" career as a singer/songwriter without a huge amount of success. Then, in 1978, came Return of the Wanderer, produced by Terry Cashman and Tommy West for their Lifesong label. The singing, the songs, and the sound were as contemporary to 1978 as the single "The Wanderer" had been to 1961, and his group, the Streetheart Band, between Rusty Steele's lead guitar, Lee Foy's sax and harmonica, and Buzz London's drums, was an outfit that could have shared a stage with the E-Street Band without any embarrassment. The most personal songs dealt with different aspects of coming to terms with being 40 and a rock & roller, and elements of Dion's past, personally and musically, but none of it was overly maudlin, even at its most confessional -- sandwiched in between the originals by Dion and songs written by Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, he also found room for a quietly intense version of "Do You Believe In Magic." In many ways, this album was his equivalent of the best of Sinatra's work of the late '50s and early '60s -- vulnerable and sophisticated -- yet it rocked. Return of the Wanderer got rave reviews, but it never charted and was generally overlooked, despite being Dion's best album; only in New York did it resonate in any serious way, not enough to drive up sales in 1978 but sufficiently to command prices of $20-$30 in collector's shops by the early 1980s.
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Lookin’ For The Heart Of Saturday Night |
3:53 |
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| 02. | |
Midtown American Main Street Gang |
6:02 |
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| 03. | |
You've Awakened Something In Me |
3:34 |
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Guitar Queen |
4:37 |
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| 05. | |
The Pattern Of My Lifeline |
3:58 |
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| 06. | |
(I Used To Be A) Brooklyn Dodger |
4:00 |
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| 07. | |
Streetheart Theme |
2:52 |
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| 08. | |
The Power Of Love Within |
4:14 |
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| 09. | |
Spanish Harlem Incident |
5:03 |
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Do You Believe In Magic |
3:09 |
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10 Total Tracks, 41:22 Total Length
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Credits
- Dion - Main Performer // Terry Cashman - Vocals (Background) // Terry Cashman - Producer // Tommy West - Producer // Tony Battaglia - Guitar // Tony Battaglia - Guitar (Rhythm) // Dion DiMucci - Vocals // Zach Glickman - Director // Eric Schilling - Assistant Engineer // Bruce Tergesen - Percussion // Bruce Tergesen - Engineer // Mark Tiernan - Keyboards // Mark Tiernan - Vocals (Background) // David Crowther - Assistant Engineer // John Berg - Cover Design // Lawrence Gates - Assistant Engineer // David Gahr - Photography // Bob Heimall - Art Direction // Bob Heimall - Design // Jim Houghton - Photography // Duncan Cowell - Post Production // Stephanie Zuras - Design // Denny Weston, Jr. - Bass // Rusty Steele - Guitar // Rusty Steele - Guitar (Rhythm) // Rusty Steele - Vocals (Background) // Jan Zlotkin - ? // Vinny Adinolfi - Assistant Producer
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