Part of the Game

Part of the Game
Studio album by Pablo Cruise
Released	October 1979
Recorded	Studio 55, Cherokee Studios, Redwing Sound and Sunset Sound, Los Angeles and Record Plant Studios, Sausalito, California
Genre	Pop rock
Length	40:04
Label	A&M
Producer	Bill Schnee
Pablo Cruise chronology
Worlds Away (1978) Part of the Game (1979) Reflector (1981)

Part of the Game is the fifth album by the California band Pablo Cruise, released in 1979.^[1] The album marked a decline in the band's popularity, as it managed only to reach #39 in the United States. One single was released from the album: "I Want You Tonight", reaching #19 in the United States.

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

The Globe and Mail wrote that "the problem is songwriter Cory Lerios, an under-achiever who takes little care with his tunes; he evidently picks an inoffensive chord pattern and constructs a series of notes that don't conflict, making preposterously weak melodies, which he then places on top of predictable rhythm tracks."^[3]

Track listing[edit]

Side One

1. "Part of the Game" (Jenkins, Lerios, Allee Willis, Day) - 3:44
2. "I Want You Tonight" (Jenkins, Lerios, Willis) - 5:31
3. "When Love Is at Your Door" (Jenkins, Lerios, Willis) - 4:31
4. "Givin' It Away" (Jenkins, Lerios, Willis) - 5:18

Side Two

1. "Tell Me That You Love Me" (Jenkins, Lerios, Willis) - 4:54
2. "Lonely Nights" (Jenkins, Lerios, Willis) - 5:23
3. "How Many Tears?" (Jenkins, Lerios, Willis, David Lasley) - 6:15
4. "For Another Town" (Lerios, Willis) - 4:28

Charts[edit]

Personnel[edit]

Pablo Cruise

• David Jenkins - guitars, vocals
• Steve Price - percussion, drums
• Bruce Day - bass, vocals
• Cory Lerios - piano, keyboards, vocals

Additional musicians

• Michael Boddicker, David Foster, Steve Porcaro - synthesizer
• Gene Meros - saxophone

Production[edit]

• Bill Schnee: Producer, Engineer

References[edit]