Steppin' Out (Neil Sedaka album)


Steppin' Out is a 1976 album containing the works of Neil Sedaka. In America it was the third and final album of a trilogy of albums issued by The Rocket Record Company. Outside America Steppin' Out was issued on the Polydor label. In 1998, the Varèse Sarabande label reissued Steppin' Out and included four bonus tracks.
The title track, a #36 hit in the U.S., featured backing vocals by Sedaka's labelmate, Elton John.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Sing Me"
  2. "You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine"
  3. "No. 1 with a Heartache"
  4. "Steppin' Out"
  5. "Love in the Shadows"
  6. "Cardboard California"

    Side Two

  7. "Here We Are Falling In Love Again"
  8. "I Let You Walk Away"
  9. "Good Times, Good Music, Good Friends"
  10. "Perfect Strangers"
  11. "Bad and Beautiful"
  12. "Summer Nights"

    Singles and EPs

Many of the songs on this album were released on 45 rpm singles; some were even included on a 33-1/3 rpm EP album in the UK. Those songs that saw such a release are as follows:
In 1976, Polydor issued an EP in the UK entitled, "Make Your Own Sunshine". This EP included "You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine" and "Summer Nights" along with "Tit For Tat" and "New York City Blues", two songs from earlier Neil Sedaka albums.

Varese Sarabande re-release

In 1998, Varèse Sarabande reissued Steppin' Out and included the following bonus tracks: