Dreamboat Annie is the debut album by the band Heart, released in 1976. It contained three hit singles which became staples on FM radio. Producer Mike Flicker of Mushroom Records, a newly formed Canadian label, helped the group to polish their sound and obtain a recording contract with the label.
The album was first released in Canada by the small Mushroom Records label. After it became a Canadian hit, Mushroom formed a U.S. division and released...
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Dreamboat Annie is the debut album by the band Heart, released in 1976. It contained three hit singles which became staples on FM radio. Producer Mike Flicker of Mushroom Records, a newly formed Canadian label, helped the group to polish their sound and obtain a recording contract with the label.
The album was first released in Canada by the small Mushroom Records label. After it became a Canadian hit, Mushroom formed a U.S. division and released Dreamboat Annie in the Seattle area, where Heart's members had lived and played before relocating to Canada in the early 1970s. The group and their label worked together to build success for the album city by city. According to Flicker, this was part of a plan to convince record distributors that Mushroom had a hit record, so that the album would get national distribution.
However, the group's relationship with the label began to deteriorate. Mushroom paid for an advertising campaign celebrating the sales of Dreamboat Annie which read "It was...
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