I'm Only Fooling Myself

Following Eric Martin on Capitol Records, this album was produced by Richie Zito, with Rick Nowels also credited as producer of "Confess". It was recorded at Oasis Recording Studios and Rumbo Recorders and mixed by Phil Kaffel and Zito. The players include guitarists Michael Landau and Tim Pierce, bassist Nathan East and drummers Vinnie Colaiuta, Mickey Curry and Mike Baird, with a horn section including Jerry Hey and percussion by Paulinho Da Costa. All ten songs were written by other songwriters. The title track is by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight, whom Canada's RPM introduced as the pair behind James Brown's hit "Living in America". The opening "These Are the Good Times", by Myles Hunter, had already been used on the soundtrack of the film Iron Eagle. Elsewhere there are "Crazy World Like This" by Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly and Neil Giraldo and "Gonna Make a Lover Out of You" by Nicky Chinn and Paul Gurvitz. Capitol released the album in the United States on LP (ST-12521) and cassette (4XT-12521), with LP editions in Canada and Europe. FMQB presented it to album-rock radio as a new release in its issue of 27 February 1987, and RPM, reviewing it on 21 March 1987, named "Everytime I Think of You" as the first single and noted that Martin's management was the team that looked after Journey. In 1988 and 1989 Eric Martin went on to form Mr. Big with Billy Sheehan, Pat Torpey and Paul Gilbert. The album was issued on CD by Spitfire Records in the United States in 2000 and by Rock Candy Records in Britain in 2008. In Japan, five of its songs were combined with six from Eric Martin on the 1996 compilation Soul Sessions: The Capitol Years, released by Toshiba EMI.