Sneaker (album)
album by Sneaker
Sneaker is the debut album by the band Sneaker. It was released in 1981 on Handshake Records.
It contains the hit single, "More Than Just the Two of Us" (which peaked at number 34 in the U.S. charts, and number 17 on the Adult Contemporary chart).
Background and recording
The album's lead track, "Don't Let Me In", was written by Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who recorded a songwriting demo of it in the late 1960s. However, Sneaker were the first artist to record the song for release.
Michael Carey Schneider wrote the opening to "More Than Just the Two of Us" on piano, influenced by Barry Manilow, and Mitch Crane then wrote the vocal melody and lyrics. The lyrics were written about Crane's pending separation and divorce from his wife. A demo was recorded with Crane singing lead, but he struggled to reach the notes he had written, and rather than transpose the song to a key he could more easily sing, he suggested Schneider sing the lead.
Schneider said of the song "Jaymes", "That’s one of my most jazziest chord progressions I’ve ever written. That was inspired by 'You Belong to Me' by Michael McDonald [sic - McDonald co-wrote "You Belong to Me" with Carly Simon, and he never recorded it as a solo artist].
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