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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = Gonna Ball |
| name = Gonna Ball
Type = [[Album]] |
| type = [[Album]]
Cover = Gonna Ball cover.jpg |
| artist = [[Stray Cats]]
Artist = [[Stray Cats]] |
| cover = Gonna Ball cover.jpg
Released = October 1981 |
| alt =
| released = November 1981
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Genre = [[Rockabilly]] |
| recorded =
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Label = [[Arista Records|Arista]] |
| venue =
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Producer = Stray Cats, Hein Hoven |
| studio =
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| Last album = ''[[Stray Cats (album)|Stray Cats]]''<br />(1981)
| genre = {{flatlist|
| This album = ''Gonna Ball''<br />(1981)
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*[[Rockabilly]]
| Next album = ''[[Built for Speed]]<br />(1982)
*[[rock and roll]]
}}
| length =
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| label = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
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| producer = Stray Cats, Hein Hoven
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| prev_title = [[Stray Cats (album)|Stray Cats]]
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title = [[Built for Speed (Stray Cats album)|Built for Speed]]
| next_year = 1982
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r50384|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r50384|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev4 = ''[[Rock 82]]''
| rev4 = ''[[Rock 82]]''
| rev4score = (favorable)<ref name="rock82">{{cite journal|last=|first=|title=Gonna Ball, Stray Cats|journal=Rock 82|publisher=NIP Politika|location=Belgrade|issue=10|page=11|language=Serbian}}</ref>
| rev4score = (favorable)<ref name="rock82">{{cite journal|title=Gonna Ball, Stray Cats|journal=Rock 82|publisher=NIP Politika|location=Belgrade|issue=10|page=11|language=sr}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
| noprose = yes
}}
}}


'''''Gonna Ball''''' is the second album from the [[rockabilly]] band [[Stray Cats]]. It was released in [England] & [Germany]{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}} in 1981 and was not as successful as ''[[Stray Cats (album)|Stray Cats]].'' Five of the songs from it, including "Baby Blue Eyes" and "Little Miss Prissy," were issued on the band's first American album ''[[Built for Speed]]''.
'''''Gonna Ball''''' is the second studio album by American [[rockabilly]] band [[Stray Cats]], first released in the UK by [[Arista Records]] in November 1981.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/gonna-ball-mw0000470613|title = Gonna Ball Stray Cats|website = [[AllMusic]]}}</ref> The album was produced by the band and Hein Hoven. It went silver in the UK.<ref name="bpi2">{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2592-883-2|title=Stray Cats: Gonna Ball|publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]]|access-date=August 10, 2023}}</ref>

Five of the album's tracks ("Baby Blue Eyes", "Little Miss Prissy", "You Don't Believe Me", "Rev It Up and Go" and "Lonely Summer Nights") were later included on the band's first American album, ''[[Built for Speed (Stray Cats album)|Built for Speed]]'' (1982). Only "You Don't Believe Me" charted in the UK, reaching No. 57.


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
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#"Cryin' Shame"
#"Cryin' Shame"
#"(She'll Stay Just) One More Day" ([[Slim Jim Phantom]], [[Lee Rocker]])
#"(She'll Stay Just) One More Day" ([[Slim Jim Phantom]], [[Lee Rocker]])
#"What's Goin' Down (Cross That Bridge)"
#"You Don't Believe Me" (Setzer, Lee Rocker)
#"You Don't Believe Me" (Setzer, Lee Rocker)
#"Gonna Ball"
#"Gonna Ball" (Allen Bunn)
#"Wicked Whisky"
#"Wicked Whisky"
#"Rev It Up and Go"
#"Rev It Up and Go"
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==Personnel==
==Personnel==
;Stray Cats
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*[[Brian Setzer]] - guitar, vocals
*[[Lee Rocker]] - bass, vocals
*[[Brian Setzer]] - [[guitar]], [[singing|vocals]]
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*[[Lee Rocker]] - [[Acoustic bass guitar|bass]], vocals
*[[Slim Jim Phantom]] - drums
*[[Slim Jim Phantom]] - [[drum kit|drums]], vocals
*John Locke - keyboards

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*Steve Poncar - saxophone
;Additional personnel
*[[John Locke (musician)|John Locke]] - [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
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*Steve Poncar - [[saxophone]]
*[[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] - keyboards
*[[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] - keyboards
*Brian McDonald - harmonica
*Brian McDonald - [[harmonica]]
*[[Lee Allen (musician)|Lee Allen]] - tenor saxophone
*[[Lee Allen (musician)|Lee Allen]] - [[tenor saxophone]]
*Gavin Cochrane - Photography
*Gavin Cochrane - [[photography]]

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1981)
!Peak<br> position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=297}}</ref>
|align="center"|61
|-
|United Kingdom ([[Official Charts Company]])
|align="center"|48
|}


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:1981 albums]]
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Latest revision as of 18:26, 19 December 2024

Gonna Ball
Studio album by
Stray Cats
ReleasedNovember 1981
Genre
LabelArista
ProducerStray Cats, Hein Hoven
Stray Cats chronology
Stray Cats
(1981) 		Gonna Ball
(1981) 		Built for Speed
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic link
Rock 82(favorable)[1]

Gonna Ball is the second studio album by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, first released in the UK by Arista Records in November 1981.[2] The album was produced by the band and Hein Hoven. It went silver in the UK.[3]

Five of the album's tracks ("Baby Blue Eyes", "Little Miss Prissy", "You Don't Believe Me", "Rev It Up and Go" and "Lonely Summer Nights") were later included on the band's first American album, Built for Speed (1982). Only "You Don't Believe Me" charted in the UK, reaching No. 57.

Track listing

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All tracks composed by Brian Setzer; except where indicated

  1. "Baby Blue Eyes" (Johnny Burnette, Paul Burlison)
  2. "Little Miss Prissy"
  3. "Wasn't That Good" (Wynonie Harris)
  4. "Cryin' Shame"
  5. "(She'll Stay Just) One More Day" (Slim Jim Phantom, Lee Rocker)
  6. "What's Goin' Down (Cross That Bridge)"
  7. "You Don't Believe Me" (Setzer, Lee Rocker)
  8. "Gonna Ball" (Allen Bunn)
  9. "Wicked Whisky"
  10. "Rev It Up and Go"
  11. "Lonely Summer Nights"
  12. "Crazy Mixed-Up Kid"

Personnel

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Stray Cats
Additional personnel

Charts

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Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 61
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company) 48

References

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  1. ^ "Gonna Ball, Stray Cats". Rock 82 (in Serbian) (10). Belgrade: NIP Politika: 11.
  2. ^ "Gonna Ball Stray Cats". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "Stray Cats: Gonna Ball". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 297. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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