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Lila is the debut album of American country music singer Lila McCann. Released in 1997 on Asylum Records, the album produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: "Down Came a Blackbird" (#28), "I Wanna Fall in Love" (#3, McCann's highest-charting single), a cover of Sheena Easton's "Almost Over You" (#42) and finally, "Yippy Ky Yay" (#63). The album itself has been certified platinum by the RIAA for U.S. shipments of one million copies, and it was the highest-selling debut album by a country artist in 1997.

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Lila
Studio album by Lila McCann
Released	June 17, 1997 (1997-06-17)
Genre	Country
Length	38:10
Label	Asylum
Producer	Mark Spiro
Lila McCann chronology
Lila (1997) Something in the Air (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Country Standard Time	link
Entertainment Weekly	B− link

Track listing

1. "I Wanna Fall in Love" (Buddy Brock, Mark Spiro) – 4:19
2. "Just One Little Kiss" (Greg Barnhill, Kim Carnes) – 2:50
3. "Almost Over You" (Jennifer Kimball, Cindy Richardson) – 3:31
4. "Down Came a Blackbird" (Michael Smotherman, Spiro) – 3:57
5. "Already Somebody's Lover" (Spiro) – 3:35
6. "Changing Faces" (Lila McCann, Spiro) – 4:07
7. "Yippy Ky Yay" (Spiro, Andrew Gold) – 4:07
8. "I Feel for You" (Brock, Shara Johnson) – 3:14
9. "Saddle My Dreams" (Tim Pierce, Spiro) – 3:28
10. "A Rain of Angels" (Michael Dulaney, Jannie Littlepage) – 5:00

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.[1]

• Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
• Dennis Burnside - piano
• Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Kim Carnes - background vocals (track 2)
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle, mandolin, dobro
• Dan Dugmore - steel guitar and electric dobro (track 2)
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
• John Hobbs - piano, keyboards, additional piano and keyboard overdubs (tracks 1, 4, 5, 8)
• Dann Huff - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Jana King-Evans - background vocals (track 1)
• Liana Manis - background vocals (track 9)
• Brent Mason - electric guitar
• Lila McCann - lead vocals, background vocals
• Terry McMillan - harmonica (track 5)
• Mark Spiro - background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson - drums

Charts

References

• Allmusic (see infobox)

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