Turn Back (album)

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Turn Back
File:TotoTurnbackcover.jpg
Studio album by Toto
Released January 1981
Recorded March–November 1980, Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Arena rock, hard rock, soft rock
Length 37:43
Label Columbia
Producer Toto & Geoff Workman
Toto chronology
Hydra
(1979)Hydra1979		 Turn Back
(1981)		 Toto IV
(1982)Toto IV1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Turn Back is the third studio album by the American rock group Toto. Although it achieved the band's first top-ten hit and steady sales in Japan, the album was a commercial disappointment elsewhere, failing to produce any charting singles and selling approximately 900,000 copies worldwide.[2]

The group nearly lost their recording contract with Columbia Records but rebounded with 1982's Toto IV.

Track listing

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "Gift with a Golden Gun"   David Paich, Bobby Kimball Kimball 4:00
2. "English Eyes"   Paich, Kimball, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro Kimball 6:11
3. "Live for Today"   Steve Lukather Lukather 4:00
4. "A Million Miles Away"   Paich Kimball 4:26
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "Goodbye Elenore"   Paich Kimball and Lukather 4:52
2. "I Think I Could Stand You Forever"   Paich Lukather 5:25
3. "Turn Back"   Kimball, Lukather Kimball 3:58
4. "If It's the Last Night"   Paich Lukather 4:28

Personnel

Additional personnel

  • Joe Porcaro: additional percussion on "If It's the Last Night"

Production

  • Producers: Toto and Geoff Workman
  • Engineer: Geoff Workman
  • Recordist: John Weaver

Singles

  • "Goodbye Elenore" / "Turn Back"
  • "If It's the Last Night" / "Turn Back" (US / Europe)
  • "Live for today" / "A Million miles away" (released in Japan)

Charts

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ *Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 11 Jul 1982
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