Juice (Juice Newton album)

"Angel of the Morning"

Newton covered the 1968 Merrilee Rush hit at the suggestion of Steve Meyer, who promoted Capitol Records product to radio stations and felt it would be a strong candidate to attain airplay for Newton.^[3]

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The album features two #1 hits, "Angel of the Morning" and "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)". It also contains "Queen of Hearts," the biggest single of Juice Newton's career, which peaked at #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts^[4] ("Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie prevented the song from reaching #1). "Queen of Hearts" was a popular music video during the summer of MTV's debut. Newton would go on to have more hit songs and albums, but this remains the album for which she is best known.

In 1984, a fourth track from Juice, titled "Ride 'Em Cowboy", was released in support of Newton's first Greatest Hits album. The single reached #32 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Two versions of the album exist. Early releases feature the original pedal steel guitar-heavy country version of "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)," subsequently replaced by the more pop-friendly remix that was issued as a single. Early editions have Newton's name in blue outlined letters on the front of the jacket. Later editions with this remix have the artists name with the lettering filled in with cream or off white.

Juice garnered Newton two "Best Female Vocalist" Grammy Award nominations (in the pop and country categories, respectively). She lost out to Lena Horne and Dolly Parton but won a Grammy for her follow-up studio album Quiet Lies (1982).

• Juice Newton – acoustic guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
• Chuck Martin, George Doering, Mitch Holder, Otha Young, Tim May – electric guitar
• Billy Joe Walker Jr., Dennis Budimir, Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar
• Dan Dugmore, Doug Livingston, Jay Dee Maness – pedal steel guitar
• Philip Aaberg – keyboards
• Neil Stubenhaus, Scott Chambers – bass
• Rick Shlosser – drums
• Steve Forman – percussion
• Brad Felton – banjo
• Andrew Gold, Brock Walsh, Harry Stinson, Jim Haas, Jon Joyce, Kenny Edwards, Lewis Morford, Stan Farber – backing vocals

• Produced by Richard Landis
• Associate producer: Otha Young
• Engineered by Joe Chiccarelli
• Assistant engineers: David Cole, Hugh Davies, Mitch Gibson, Karen Siegel
• Mixing: Michael Verdick
• Mastering: Wally Traugott