^ a b Juice - Juice Newton Album charts and awards.^ Juice - Juice Newton Singles charts and awards.Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. ^ 'Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies: Juice Newton'.Assistant Engineers: David Cole, Hugh Davies, Mitch Gibson, Karen Siegel.Andrew Gold, Brock Walsh, Harry Stinson, Jim Haas, Jon Joyce, Kenny Edwards, Lewis Morford, Stan Farber - backing vocals.Dan Dugmore, Doug Livingston, Jay Dee Maness - pedal steel guitar.Billy Joe Walker Jr., Dennis Budimir, Fred Tackett - acoustic guitar.Chuck Martin, George Doering, Mitch Holder, Otha Young, Tim May - electric guitar.Juice Newton - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals.But she did win her first Grammy for her follow-up album Quiet Lies. Juice garnered Juice Newton two 'Best Female Vocalist' Grammy Award nominations (in the Pop and Country categories, respectively) neither of which she won. Later editions with this remix have the artists name with the lettering filled in with cream or off white. Early editions have the artist's name in blue outlined letters on the front of the jacket. Early releases feature the original pedal steel guitar-heavy country version of 'The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known),' subsequently replaced by the more pop-friendly remix that was issued as a single.

In 1984, a fourth track from Juice, titled 'Ride 'Em Cowboy', was released in support of Newton's first 'Greatest Hits' album. Newton would go on to have more hit songs and albums, but this remains the album for which she is best known. 'Queen of Hearts' was a popular music video during the summer of MTV's debut. It also contains ' Queen of Hearts,' the biggest-selling single of Juice Newton's career, which peaked at #2 on both Billboard's Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts ('Endless Love' by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie prevented the song from reaching #1).

The album features two #1 hits, ' Angel of the Morning' and ' The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)'. You can listen to “Queen of Hearts” in the video below.Problems playing this file? See media help. 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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