All Dressed Up And No Place To Go is the fourth studio album by American singer Nicolette Larson. It was produced by Andrew Gold and released by Warner Bros. Records in 1982.
The album was produced by Andrew Gold, who at the time was in a serious relationship with Larson. The pair broke up shortly after the album’s recording sessions had finished. In a circa 2005 interview for Randolph Michaels’s book Flashbacks to Happiness: Eighties Music Revisited, Andrew Gold recalled of the album: “She and I had a blast making the record and we had some great players doing the album with us. To me, the album was one of her best, yet it was somehow overlooked by many of her fans.”
The album’s only single was “I Only Want to Be with You”, a cover of the 1963 Dusty Springfield song. Larson’s version was released in July 1982, and reached No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Larson’s last appearance on the chart. All Dressed Up and No Place to Go, released in July, peaked at No. 75 on the Billboard 200. It was her final release for Warner Bros.
The album received its first release on CD, in Japan only, during 1991. Wounded Bird Records later released a remastered CD version in the US in 2005, followed by a UK release from BGO Records in 2018
Tracks
1 I’ll Fly Away (Without You) (Craig Doerge; Jackson Browne; Rosemary Butler) 04:02
2 I Only Want To Be With You (Ivor Raymonde; Mike Hawker) 03:18
3 Just Say I Love You (Jim Lang; Andrew Kastner) 04:04
4 Nathan Jones (Kathy Wakefield; Leonard Caston) 03:07
5 I Want You So Bad (Andrew Gold) 03:29
6 Two Trains (Lowell George) 04:14
7 Love, Sweet, Love (Paul Barrere) 03:53
8 Say You Will (Gary Ogan; Leon Russell) 03:32
9 Talk To Me (Allee Willis; Patrick Henderson) 03:14
10 Still You Linger On (Andrew Gold) 02:49
Musicians
1 I’ll Fly Away (Without You)
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Fred Tackett |
Acoustic Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Electric Piano | Mark Jordan |
Organ | Mark Jordan |
Piano | Andrew Gold |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
2 I Only Want To Be With You
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Acoustic Guitar | Fred Tackett |
Keyboards | Mark Jordan |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
3 Just Say I Love You
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar (solo) | Fred Tackett |
Guitar (solo) | Andrew Kastner |
Fender Rhodes | Mark Jordan |
Congas | Arno Lucas |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
4 Nathan Jones
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Fred Tackett |
Slide Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Electric Piano | Mark Jordan |
Piano | Andrew Gold |
Synthesizer | Andrew Gold |
Sax | Jim Horn |
Congas | Bobby LaKind |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Julia Tillman Waters |
Background Vocals | Maxine Willard Waters |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
5 I Want You So Bad
Bass | Bob Glaub |
Drums | Mike Botts |
Guitar | John McFee |
Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Keyboards | Andrew Gold |
Sax | Jim Horn |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Valerie Carter |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
6 Two Trains
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Fred Tackett |
Slide Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Piano | Andrew Gold |
Synthesizer | Bill Payne |
Synthesizer | Andrew Gold |
Wurlitzer | Mark Jordan |
Congas | Arno Lucas |
Congas | Bobby LaKind |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
7 Love, Sweet, Love
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Fred Tackett |
Mandolin | Andrew Gold |
Piano | Mark Jordan |
Synthesizer | Andrew Gold |
Tambourine | Arno Lucas |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
8 Say You Will
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Piano | Mark Jordan |
Synthesizer | Andrew Gold |
Trumpet | Lee Thornburg |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Linda Ronstadt |
Background Vocals | Wendy Waldman |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
9 Talk To Me
Bass | Scott Chambers |
Drums | Rick Shlosser |
Guitar | Richard Feldman |
Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Electric Piano | Patrick Henderson |
Synthesizer | Andrew Gold |
Sax | Jim Horn |
Congas | Arno Lucas |
Percussion | Andrew Gold |
Background Vocals | Maureen McDonald |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
10 Still You Linger On
Guitar | Andrew Gold |
Piano | Bill Payne |
Synthesizer | Bill Payne |
Vocals | Nicolette Larson |
Liner Notes
Producer – Andrew Gold
Producer (Executive) – Ted Templeman
Coordinator – Jodie Lunine
Engineer – Jim Isaacson
Engineer (Second) – Stephen McManus
Mastered By – Bobby Hata
Design – Jimmy Wachtel
Photography By – Randee St. Nicholas
Mastered At Warner Bros. Recording Studios
Recorded At Sunset Sound
Phonographic Copyright WEA International
Phonographic Copyright Warner Bros Records Inc
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Copyright Warner Bros Records Inc