Patty Smyth

Patty Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention in the band Scandal. She went on to record and perform on her own. Her distinctive voice and new-wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on what were then newly emerging cable music video channels such as MTV. Her debut album Never Enough was well received, and generated a pair of Top 40 hits. In the early 1990s she again reached the Top 10 with the hit single "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough", a duet sung with Don Henley. She performed and co-wrote with James Ingram the song "Look What Love Has Done" for the 1994 motion picture, Junior. The work earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Smyth married tennis star John McEnroe in 1997.

Musical career

With Scandal

After growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood Gerritsen Beach, Smyth joined Scandal as vocalist in 1981. The band released a self-titled debut album the next year. Featuring the song "Goodbye to You", it went on to become Columbia Records' biggest selling EP. In 1984, they put out their follow-up, The Warrior. Buoyed by MTV airplay, the album peaked at No. 17 on the charts, and the first song off the release, also titled "The Warrior", was a top-ten smash. However, despite their success, internal strife within the group led to their breakup shortly afterwards.

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Patty Smyth (album)

Patty Smyth is the second solo studio album by rock singer-songwriter Patty Smyth, formerly of Scandal, which went gold, as a result of the popularity of its first single, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and also went Gold. The album also produced two further singles in the opening track "No Mistakes" (top 40) and another, albeit minor, hit in "I Should Be Laughing".

Track listing

  • "No Mistakes" (Patty Smyth, Kevin Savigar) 5:23
  • "Too Much Love" (Michael Lunn, Sam Lorber) 3:54
  • "Make Me a Believer" (Jesse Harms) 4:38
  • "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" with Don Henley (Smyth, Glen Burtnik) 4:28
  • "Out There" (Smyth, Edward Roynesdal) 4:46
  • "River of Love" (Smyth, Burtnik) 4:23
  • "My Town" (Smyth, Savigar) 4:07
  • "Shine" (Smyth, Burtnik) 4:27
  • "One Moment to Another" (Jon Dee Graham) 3:34
  • "I Should Be Laughing" (Smyth, Burtnik) 5:04

    • Production

  • Roy Bittan: Producer
  • Robbie Jacobs, Brian Scheuble: Engineering and mixing
  • Additional engineering by Nick DiDia and John Aguto
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    I Should Be Laughing

    by: Patty Smyth

    Somewhere in a scrapbook
    There's a rose you gave to me
    And a photograph that's torn in half
    And all that's left is me
    And happily ever after darlin'
    Well that came after I was gone
    They tell you that, you can't go back
    Then why can't I go on
    When I should be laughing at this joke
    Dressed up as love disguised as hope
    Isn't it funny after all this time
    A tear is falling, when I should be laughing
    Sunsets like a painting
    Windows like a frame
    The night comes in and I begin
    To see it all again
    When I should be laughing at this joke
    The damage done the words I spoke
    Isn't it funny after all this time
    Regret can find me when I should be laughing
    I should be laughing at life and all of the tricks that it plays
    I should be laughing at time and how fast it's slipping away
    Somewhere in a scrapbook
    There's a rose you gave to me
    With one last look I close the book
    And let the past just be
    Cause I should be laughing at this joke
    Dressed up as love disguised as hope
    Isn't it funny after all this time
    A tear is falling, when I should be laughing
    Isn't it funny, I should be laughing
    And isn't it funny
    I should be laughing
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