Rockinghorse

This article is about the Alannah Myles album. For other uses, see Rocking horse (disambiguation).

Rockinghorse is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alannah Myles, released on October 13, 1992, by Atlantic Records. It spawned five singles, "Song Instead of a Kiss", "Tumbleweed", "Our World, Our Times", "Living on a Memory", and "Sonny Say You Will" (the first one of which Myles co-wrote). The album was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards.

Rockinghorse
Studio album by Alannah Myles
Released	October 13, 1992
Studio	Brooklyn Recording (New York City) Capitol Studios (Los Angeles, California) Saturn Sound (Studio City, California) The Complex (Los Angeles, California) Mad Dog Studios (Burbank, California) Westlake Studios (Los Angeles, California) A&M Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Rock
Length	50:10
Label	Atlantic
Producer	David Tyson
Alannah Myles chronology
Alannah Myles (1989) Rockinghorse (1992) A-lan-nah (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B[2]
Orlando Sentinel	[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Our World Our Times"	Christopher Ward David Tyson	6:25
2.	"Make Me Happy"	Ward Tyson	5:47
3.	"Sonny Say You Will"	Ward	5:04
4.	"Tumbleweed"	Ward	4:36
5.	"Livin' on a Memory"	Ward Tyson	5:50
6.	"Song Instead of a Kiss"	Alannah Myles Robert Priest Nancy Simmonds	5:03
7.	"Love in the Big Town"	Ward Tyson	4:45
8.	"The Last Time I Saw William"	Myles Ward Tyson	4:12
9.	"Lies and Rumours"	Ward Tyson	5:06
10.	"Rockinghorse"	Myles Simmonds Ward	3:00

Personnel

Musicians

• Alannah Myles – vocals
• David Tyson – keyboards, bass, backing vocals
• Kurt Schefter – guitars
• David Wipper – acoustic guitars, mandolin
• Buzz Feiten – electric guitars (5)
• Will Lee – bass
• Denny Fongheiser – drums, percussion
• Jørn Andersen – additional cymbals (1)
• Larry Williams – saxophones
• Greg Smith – baritone saxophone (2, 4)
• Gary Grant – trumpets
• John Elefante – backing vocals
• Mark Free – backing vocals
• Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
• Christopher Ward – backing vocals
• Rose Stone – backing vocals

Production

• Produced by David Tyson
• Executive Producer – Christopher Ward
• Engineered by Brian Foraker
• Additional Engineering by Brad Aldredge, Richard Benoit, Bill Dooley and Peter Willis.
• Assistant Engineers – Brad Aldredge, Peter Doell, Jeff Graham, Efren Herrera, Leslie Ann Kones, Dominique Schafer, Scott Stillman and Ben Wallach.
• Tracks 1-5, 7, 8 & 9 mixed by Tom Lord-Alge
• Tracks 6 & 10 mixed by Brian Foraker
• Recorded at Brooklyn Recording (Brooklyn, New York); Capitol Studios and A&M Studios (Hollywood, California), Saturn Sound (Studio City, California); Mad Dog Studios (Burbank, California); Westlake Audio and The Complex (Los Angeles, California).
• Mixed at Image Recording Studios and Westlake Audio (Los Angeles, California).
• Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, California).
• Production Coordinator – Shari Sutcliffe
• Cover Photography – Reisig & Taylor
• Creative Director and Wardrobe Design – Alannah Myles
• Art Direction and Design – Tom Bricker
• Atlantic Records Creative Director –Melanie Nissen
• Creative Design – Lisa Panagapka for Alannahworks
• Make-up – Michael Bonneville
• Hair Design – Helen Chudoba

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Rockinghorse Chart (1992) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 65 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[5] 40 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[6] 9 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[7] 9 European Albums (Music & Media)[8] 58 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[9] 19 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[10] 53 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[11] 23 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[12] 16

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for Rockinghorse Chart (1992) Position Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[13] 37

Certifications

Certifications for Rockinghorse

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[14]	2× Platinum	200,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Moon, Tom (November 6, 1992). "Rockinghorse". Entertainment Weekly.
3. Gettelman, Parry (November 13, 1992). "Alannah Myles". Orlando Sentinel.
4. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 198.
5. "Austriancharts.at – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
6. "Top RPM Albums: Issue 1857". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
7. "Top 10 Sales in Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 9, no. 48. 28 November 1992. p. 24. OCLC 29800226 – via World Radio History.
8. "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 9, no. 48. 28 November 1992. p. 25. OCLC 29800226 – via World Radio History.
9. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
10. "Offiziellecharts.de – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
11. "Swedishcharts.com – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
12. "Swisscharts.com – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
13. "The RPM Top 100 Albums of 1992" (PDF). RPM. Vol. 56, no. 25. 19 December 1992. p. 13. ISSN 0033-7064 – via World Radio History.
14. "Canadian album certifications – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse". Music Canada. March 8, 1993. Retrieved September 28, 2021.