Dream Master (album)

Dream Master
Studio album by
Billie Hughes
Released1979
StudioA&M Studios, Hollywood; Sounds Interchange Studios, Canada; Total Sound West, Vancouver, British Columbia; Cherokee Studios, LA
Genre
LabelEpic Records
Producer
Billie Hughes chronology
Dream Master
(1979) 		Welcome to the Edge
(1991)

Dream Master is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Billie Hughes, released in 1979 on Epic Records by CBS Canada. Hughes composed all of the songs with "Stealin' My Heart Away" issued as the first single in 1979.[1][2] The album was produced by Henry Lewy who held recording sessions at A&M Studios featuring top Los Angeles session musicians including Jeff Porcaro,[3] Russ Kunkel, Victor Feldman, Wilton Felder, Mike Melvoin, and Mike Porcaro,[4] Oscar Castro-Neves and a guest appearance by José Feliciano on guitar and background vocals.[5][6]

The album was released in the US and internationally where in Japan, it received attention in the Osaka region, and Europe, in connection with the release of Hughes' Martin Eden single, appearing as the theme song of the Martin Eden mini-series, an Italian production broadcasting pan-Europe. In Germany, the album was released with Martin Eden opening the album, as a bonus track.

"Stealin' My Heart Away"
Single by Bill Hughes
from the album Dream Master
Released1979
StudioA&M Studios
GenrePop
Length3:34
LabelEpic Records
Songwriter(s)Bill Hughes
Bill Hughes singles chronology
"Martin Eden"
(1979) 		"Stealin' My Heart Away"
(1979) 		"Welcome To The Edge"
(1991)

The album was released on vinyl by Epic Records in 1979.[7] It was re-released in Japan in 1982 when Billie Hughes moved to Japan for four months to perform in Osaka. Dream Master was re-released in Japan in CD format during the 1990s, after the success of Hughes' second solo album, Welcome to the Edge, and again in 2001.[1]

  1. ^ a b Dream Master – Billie Hughes | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved April 28, 2021
  2. ^ "Billboard, Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. October 6, 1985. p. 70. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 21, 2021.
  3. ^ "THE GREAT GROOVE MASTER : JEFF PORCARO SESSION WORLD". geocities.jp. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  4. ^ "Radio Swiss Pop – Musikdatenbank – Musiker". Radio Swiss Pop (in German). Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  5. ^ Lewis, Randy (August 26, 1978). "East Coasting/Points West" (PDF). Cashbox. p. 50. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 23, 2021.
  6. ^ Lewis, Randy (August 5, 1978). "East Coastings/Points West" (PDF). Cashbox. p. 22. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 23, 2021.
  7. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (February 17, 1979). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)