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Careless
Studio album by Stephen Bishop
Released	October 1976
Studio	ABC, Los Angeles, California A&M, Hollywood, California
Genre	Pop, soft rock
Length	39:17
Label	ABC, Los Angeles, California
Producer	Henry Lewy, Stephen Bishop
Stephen Bishop chronology
Careless (1976) Bish (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	C+
The Rolling Stone Record Guide
The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music

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, and "Save It for a Rainy Day" which made No. 22. The album itself rose to No. 34 on the Billboard albums chart. Notable contributors to the album include Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel and Chaka Khan.

Track listing

All songs written by Stephen Bishop.

Personnel

Musicians

• 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)

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.

References

1. Careless at AllMusic
2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
3. The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 34.
4. Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Concise 3rd Edition, p. 135. Virgin Books, London. ISBN 1-85227-832-3
5. Whitburn, Joel (2000). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th Edition, p. 65. Billboard Books, New York. ISBN 0-8230-7690-3
6. Whitburn, Joel (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums, 3rd Edition, p. 35. Billboard Books, New York. ISBN 0-8230-7631-8

• 1976 debut albums
• ABC Records albums
• Stephen Bishop (singer) albums
• Albums arranged by Lee Holdridge