Huey Lewis And The News "Hard At Play (USA, EMI Records USA, CDP-7-93355-2)"

Hard at Play is the sixth album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News. It was released in 1991 on EMI for most of the world and Chrysalis in the UK. Hard at Play peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 pop albums chart and produced two top 40 singles, "Couple Days Off" and "It Hit Me Like a Hammer." Music videos were released for "It Hit Me like a Hammer," "Couple Days Off," and "He Don't Know."

In a review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine notes the "return to the straight-ahead blues-inflected pop/rock that made Huey Lewis and the News superstars in the early '80s" with Hard at Play.

Tracklist:

1. "Build Me Up" Johnny Colla/Huey Lewis   4:28
2. "It Hit Me Like a Hammer"   Robert John "Mutt" Lange/Lewis   4:01
3. "Attitude" Max Carl 4:00
4. "He Don't Know"  Don Covay/Jon Tiven/Sally Tiven   4:15
5. "Couple Days Off"  Chris Hayes/Lewis/Geoffrey Palmer   4:56
6. "That's Not Me" Michael Ruff 4:15
7. "We Should Be Making Love" Andy Goldmark/Steve Kipner/Steve Lindsey  4:01
8. "Best of Me" Bonnie Hayes/Kevin Hayes/Annie Stocking   3:57
9. "Don't You Love Me, or What?"  C. Hayes/Lewis/Nick Lowe  3:46
10. "Don't Look Back"   Lewis/Bill Gibson/David Fredericks  3:44
11. "Time Ain't Money" Colla/Lewis   4:46

Total length: 46:24

Recording information:

Huey Lewis and the News – producers

Bill Schnee – producer, engineer, mixing

Eric "ET" Thorngren – co-producer (1, 5), additional engineer

Bob Brown – executive producer

Bob Edwards – additional engineer, assistant engineer

Jeffrey "Nik" Norman – additional engineer

Ken Allardyce – assistant engineer, mix assistant

Tony Eckert – assistant engineer

Stephen Hart – assistant engineer

Tim Lauber – assistant engineer

Kevin Scott – assistant engineer

Jim "Watts" Vereecke – assistant engineer

Jack Joseph Puig – mixing

Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).

Henry Marquez – art direction

Michael Diehl – design

Aaron Rapoport – photography