NEWTON JUICE SERIES
In summing up the album's modest success, the music critic Ian McFarlane noted, "The first clue was the album cover which featured a series of nine photos of Juice looking bright, playful and not a little coy, whereas with previous covers ( Juice and Quiet Lies in particular) she’d radiated a quiet confidence and sheer determination by staring straight at the camera lens. "Stranger at My Door" had a modest peak at number 45 on the Billboard Country chart. " Tell Her No", a reworking of The Zombies's 1965 top ten hit, peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Pop chart while "Dirty Looks" only reached number 90. Dirty Looks was not as successful as Juice and Quiet Lies and produced only three modest hits. With their success, Capitol seemed determined more than ever to push Newton further into the pop market. Both had been major hits for Capitol and, between them, had produced six top ten singles. Overview ĭirty Looks was Newton's follow-up to Juice (her "breakthrough" album) and Quiet Lies. It was released by Capitol Records in 1983. You can listen to “Queen of Hearts” in the video below.Dirty Looks is the fifth solo album by the American country pop singer Juice Newton. Just two years later, Edmunds had to watch as Newton enjoyed the biggest success in America with “Queen of Hearts.” Edmunds had also claimed that Newton stole his composition: “She did pinch my arrangement, note for note, but I’m not angry with that,” he said. However, it was never released in the United States as his label refused to do so, but it peaked at No. Welsh singer Dave Edmunds was the first artist to record “Queen of Hearts” for his album Repeat When Necessary in 1979. Won’t you keep my heart from breakin’ if it’s only for a very short time. It used gambling metaphors to represent this. Though she knows it’s a bad move, it’s already impossible for her to resist it. The song tells the tale of a woman who fell in love with an unreliable lover. “Queen of Hearts” was written by Hank DeVito, who was primarily known for his pedal steel guitar work for The Hot Band, Emmylou Harris’ backing group. Sixteen years later, Newton once again recorded “Queen of Hearts” for her album The Trouble With Angels. Newton also earned a Best Female Vocalist, Country, and Western category nomination during the 1982 Grammy Awards. “Queen of Hearts” is actually Newton’s second-biggest international hit, securing Top Ten chart positions in Canada, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, and South Africa. 15 on Billboard Hot Country Songs, making Newton’s “Queen of Hearts” the highest-profile rendition.īut the song’s success did not stop in the United States. 2 both on Billboard Adult Contemporary and on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for two weeks.
“He wasn’t convinced at that point that it was a breakout song, but I told him I think this is a real cool song … so we cut it.”Īnd the singer proved herself right! Her version reached No. “I did live for about a year…Then I brought it to Richard Landis when we started the Juice album,” Newton later recalled. In 1981, country-rock singer Juice Newton released her rendition of “Queen of Hearts” as the second single off her album Juice.
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