A handful of the songs from this LP by Fay Stevens came out as singles on Heart Records, and an equal number on Ontario-based Bel Air records. We don't know what the full details of the arrangement between the two labels was, but this promo sheet was tucked into our copy of this LP: [center][img width=662.484px]//7ca49eb9f67ba1319ef136f9d52cd8b8.cdn.bubble.io/f1766449648256x795064967421529100/richtext_content.jpeg[/img][/center] [h1][b]Fay Stevens[/b][/h1] [h1][b]Take Me Now[/b][/h1] Bel Air Records is pleased to announce the release of another new single by Canadian country singer Fay Stevens, entitled Take Me Now. The current single is a follow- up to Fay's summer release, Playin' A Fool's Game, which cracked charts across the country and is still seeing airplay well into the winter of 1984. Recorded at the lavish Platinum City Studios in Dallas, Texas, Take Me Now benefits from the fine touch of two major behind-the-scenes country talents, one Canadian and one American. Producing these sessions was Ron Mahonin, a recognized Canadian singer and composer with some impressive hits on the national market. Mahonin's song You Came Into My Life was a winner at the 1978 American Song Festival and was later declared the most per- formed country tune of 1983 by PROCan. In the same year, My Love, another Mahonin tune, cracked the top 30 on RPM's Contemporary Adult chart. Coproducing Fay's new single was Phil York, a producer and engineer with some huge successes to his credit on the U.S. market. York was behind the mixing board in 1975 when Willie Nelson created his platinum hit, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, at the Autumn Sound Studios in Garland, Texas where York also produced several of Fay's tunes for her album, Love is a Dream. The Texas-based producer-engineer has a career studded with gold records, including Helen Reddy's giant hit, I Am Woman. This time out, Fay has teamed up with two songs that will fit into a number of listening categories. Take Me Now, writ- ten by Nashville Singer-songwriter-producer Curtis Young, is a slow, romantic ballad with a lush, seductive sound that could be called either country or contemporary adult pop. Start All Over Again, another Ron Mahonin song, is an upbeat country tune with a bouncy, bright tempo and a clean Nashville sound. This is Fay's third release since signing in early 1984 with Bel Air Records, the Brampton, Ontario-based independent label that made waves in the Canadian country music business by taking unknown country singer Eddie Eastman from obscurity to prominence as the winner of two Juno awards. Fay's first Bel Air single, Hey Mister/Honky Tonk Corner, established her as a contender on the 1984 music scene, with widespread airplay. The second, Playin' A Fool's Game, made further advances, impressing programmers as far afield as Moncton, N.B., home of the 1984 ACME country music awards. Fay, a prairie girl born in the small town of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan and raised in Alberta, is a well-known performer in the Calgary area, where she makes her home. Since her first recording session at the age of 17, she has been performing and recording steadily in western Canada and the U.S. (including the stopover in Texas which produced these singles, from the album Love is a Dream.) In the summer of 1984, she and her band City Lights played to full houses in Alberta and Saskatchewan, sharing bills with performers like Dick Damron and Tommy Hunter. Buoyed by the success of her 1984 singles and her stage act, Fay is making big plans for 1985. The search is underway for hit material for new recording sessions in the coming year, and plans are also afoot for Fay and her band to tour Ontario and the maritime provinces in the summer of '85. Then perhaps the western singer and her eastern fans can meet face to face.
