Huey Lewis And The News "Small World (USA, Chrysalis Records, VK 41622)"

Small World is the fifth album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1988. It was also their last album release on Chrysalis Records in the USA.

Although it reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the album did not sell as well as the band's previous albums, Sports and Fore!. However, Lewis himself stated in a Behind the Music interview that the recording process for Small World had the most favorable working conditions

The album track "Slammin'" was written for the purpose of being used for highlights for the San Francisco 49ers NFL football team, which the band and especially Lewis are big fans of. "We thought it'd be a cool idea to have an instrumental on the record. Very old school," Lewis recalled. Lewis joked that the song should've just been called "49er Highlights". The team used the song for game highlights.

Track listing

1. "Small World (Part One)"  Chris Hayes/Huey Lewis  3:55
2. "Old Antone's"  Johnny Colla/H. Lewis   4:47
3. "Perfect World" Alex Call 4:07
4. "Bobo Tempo" John Ciambotti/Sean Hopper/H. Lewis   4:39
5. "Small World (Part Two)" Hayes/H. Lewis   4:06
6. "Walking with the Kid"   Hayes/H. Lewis/Geoffrey Palmer   3:59
7. "World to Me"  Hayes/H. Lewis   5:21
8. "Better Be True"  Colla/H. Lewis   5:19
9. "Give Me the Keys (And I'll Drive You Crazy)" Bill Gibson/H. Lewis/Steve Lewis  4:35
10. "Slammin'" (Instrumental) Greg Adams/Hayes/Palmer   4:32

Total length: 45:36

Recording information:

Recorded at Studio D Recording (Sausalito, California).

Mixed at Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, California).

Mastered at Masterdisk (New York, NY).

Huey Lewis and the News – producers

Bob Brown – executive producer

Robert Missbach – engineer, mixing

Jeffrey "Nik" Norman – additional engineer

Michael Rosen – assistant engineer

Tom Size – assistant engineer

Jim "Watts" Vereecke – assistant engineer

Bob Ludwig – mastering

Ralph Arista – guitar technician

Jerry Daniels – keyboard technician

Carl Ciasulli – drum technician

Terry Persons – production manager

Craig Frazier – art direction, design

Jock McDonald – photography

Roger Ressmeyer – cover photography

Chris Welch – liner notes