:Careless (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Careless
| type = studio
| artist = Stephen Bishop
| cover = Careless (Stephen Bishop album - cover art).jpg
| alt =
| released = October 1976
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = *ABC, Los Angeles, California
- A&M, Hollywood, California
| length = 39:17
| label = ABC, Los Angeles, California
| producer = Henry Lewy, Stephen Bishop
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Bish
| next_year = 1978
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000207215}}
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = C+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: B|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=B&bk=70|accessdate=February 21, 2019}}
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Record Guide
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Record Guide |date=1979 |publisher=Random House |page=34}}
| rev4 = The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Concise 3rd Edition, p. 135. Virgin Books, London. {{ISBN|1-85227-832-3}}
}}
Careless is the debut album by singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop. It includes two hit singles: "On and On", which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard singles chart,Whitburn, Joel (2000). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th Edition, p. 65. Billboard Books, New York. {{ISBN|0-8230-7690-3}} and "Save It for a Rainy Day" which made No. 22. The album itself rose to No. 34 on the Billboard albums chart.Whitburn, Joel (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums, 3rd Edition, p. 35. Billboard Books, New York. {{ISBN|0-8230-7631-8}} Notable contributors to the album include Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel and Chaka Khan.
Track listing
All songs written by Stephen Bishop.
{{Track listing
| title1 = On and On
| length1 = 3:00
| title2 = Never Letting Go
| length2 = 3:48
| title3 = Careless
| length3 = 3:45
| title4 = Sinking in an Ocean of Tears
| length4 = 3:08
| title5 = Madge
| length5 = 4:03
| title6 = Every Minute
| length6 = 3:58
| title7 = Little Italy
| length7 = 3:27
| title8 = One More Night
| length8 = 4:02
| title9 = Guitar Interlude
| length9 = 0:35
| title10 = Save It for a Rainy Day
| length10 = 3:10
| title11 = Rock and Roll Slave
| length11 = 3:38
| title12 = The Same Old Tears on a New Background
| length12 = 2:40
}}
Personnel
=Musicians=
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- Stephen Bishop – lead vocals (1–8, 10–12), backing vocals (1, 3, 6, 11), acoustic guitar, trombone (3)
- John Barlow Jarvis – electric piano (1, 10), acoustic piano (2–4, 6, 8, 10)
- Alan Lindgren – synthesizers (4, 8)
- Steve Paietta – accordion (7)
- Larry Knechtel – electric piano (11), organ (11)
- Andrew Gold – electric guitar (1, 6)
- Michael Staton – steel guitar (1), backing vocals (1)
- Lee Ritenour – acoustic guitar (2)
- Eric Clapton – slide guitar (4), electric guitar solo (10)
- Jay Graydon – electric guitar (4), acoustic guitar (6)
- Larry Carlton – acoustic guitar (7)
- Tommy Tedesco – mandolin (7)
- Jeff Staton Jones – electric guitar (10), bass (10), backing vocals (10)
- Mac Cridlin – bass guitar (1, 3, 4)
- Reinie Press – bass guitar (2, 8, 11)
- Max Bennett – bass guitar (6, 7)
- Larry Brown – drums (1, 3, 4)
- Jim Gordon – drums (2, 8, 11)
- John Guerin – drums (6, 7)
- Russ Kunkel – drums (10)
- Victor Feldman – marimba (1), percussion (1, 7), vibraphone (1, 7)
- Ray Pizzi – saxophone solo (4)
- Ian Freebairn-Smith – string arrangements (2, 7), string conductor (2), horn arrangements (4, 10), woodwind arrangements (7)
- Lee Holdridge – string arrangements and conductor (3, 5, 8)
- Chaka Khan – backing vocals (2, 10), co-lead vocals (7)
- Art Garfunkel – backing vocals (3, 6, 11)
- Leah Kunkel – backing vocals (11)
{{div col end}}
=Production=
- Producers – Stephen Bishop and Henry Lewy
- Engineer – Henry Lewy
- Assistant Engineers – Leslie Jones and Helen Silvani
- Recorded at ABC Recording Studios and A&M Studios (Los Angeles, CA).
- Mastered by Bernie Grundman
- Cover and Back Photography – Gary Heery
- Inside Photography – Gary Heery, Patti Boyd Harrison and Charles Villiers.