1980 Amy Holland – Amy Holland

Amy Holland is singer Amy Holland’s self-titled debut album. The album was released on LP record in 1980, and was produced by Amy’s future husband Michael McDonald. One of the songs on the album “How Do I Survive” (a song originally sung by The Paul Bliss Band) became a big hit and made it to the Top 30 chart. Amy Holland would often perform “How Do I Survive” live on music TV shows such as Music Fair (a Japanese music show) and Young Oh! Oh!. Those live performances of the song can be found on YouTube. Holland mostly recorded some song covers for this album, with one of them being Annette Hanshaw’s 1928 jazz-standard Forgetting You The success of the song How Do I Survive helped Amy earn a Grammy Nomination for Best New Artist in 1981, but she did not win the award however. Some of the songs on the album have been written by Michael McDonald such as “Here In The Light” and “Show Me the Way Home”. “How Do I Survive” was a hit peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three years later Amy would release another studio album called On Your Every Word.