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1428: 1371: 345: 340: 335: 330: 307: 302: 297: 325: 292: 287: 31: 361:"an exceptionally slick-sounding yet pedestrian album overall". They recommended that listeners instead seek out the two hits, especially "You Can Do Magic", on greatest hits compilations. 1465: 1412: 1509: 1158: 1504: 1499: 940: 1458: 1405: 1130: 833: 1298: 887: 1519: 1514: 1489: 1191: 1183: 1112: 1484: 1451: 1398: 504: 1098: 870: 316: 1084: 933: 1070: 670: 658: 1199: 1137: 1000: 1326: 1249: 1077: 1007: 1224: 1206: 1028: 182: 1312: 1144: 1014: 993: 926: 393: 242: 226: 1319: 1270: 1151: 1035: 1021: 498: 234: 1439: 1386: 357:
gave high praise to the hit songs "You Can Do Magic" and "Right Before Your Eyes", but deemed
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in the '80s and remains one of the band's best-known songs in the country to date.
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Mixed at Location Recording Service (Burbank, California) and Amigo Studios.
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singles chart and number five on the adult contemporary chart, and "
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singles chart and 16 on the adult contemporary chart. "
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Index


Studio album
America
Capitol Studios
Criteria Studios
Abbey Road Studios
Genre
Soft rock
Label
Capitol
Producer
Gerry Beckley
Dewey Bunnell
Russ Ballard
Bobby Colomby
America
Alibi
The Last Unicorn
folk rock
America
Capitol Records
Dan Peek
You Can Do Magic
Right Before Your Eyes
You Can Do Magic
Philippines
AllMusic
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide
AllMusic
You Can Do Magic

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