Crying In The Night

Album: Buckingham Nicks (1975)
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  • Running to 2 minutes 58 seconds, this Stevie Nicks composition has two claims to fame: It was the first track on the sole Buckingham Nicks album, which was Stevie and Lindsey Buckingham's duo in their pre-Fleetwood Mac days; it was also the first track to be recorded on the Neve Console at the Sound City studio in Los Angeles. >>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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  • Thomas from El Paso,txStevie said she wrote this for Lesley Anne Warren. A lady kind of like Miss Kitty in the show Gunsmoke. But you might want to check on that.
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