For those unaware, Orchestrating My Life was a career-defining re-visitation of a lifetime of hits from Australian-born rocker Rick Springfield.

At that time, Rick was accompanied on stage by his own high-energy band and the award-winning 100-piece Santa Monica High School Orchestra, conducted by maestro Wolf Kerschek.

Rick’s seventeenth studio album features new versions of Jessie’s Girl, Don’t Talk To Strangers, Love Somebody, Human Touch and eight other classics. Also included is the brand-new song Irreplaceable, a song dedicated to Rick’s mother who he lost around that time.

1. Kristina
2. I’ve Done Everything For You
3. Don’t Talk To Strangers
4. Jessie’s Girl
5. Affair Of The Heart
6. Love Somebody
7. Human Touch
8. Celebrate Youth
9. World Start Turning
10. State Of The Heart
11. Irreplaceable
12. April 24th, 1981 / My Father’s Chair

This simply breathtaking set of re-recorded songs/hits and more opens on an orchestrally-soaring Kristina and a robust I’ve Done Everything for You and then we are gifted the pleasing Don’t Talk to Strangers, the fist-clenched Jessie’s Girl, and both the pulsing Affair of the Heart and the all-embracing Love Somebody.

Along next is a brilliantly rousing Human Touch and a simply gripping Celebrate Youth and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the reaching World Start Turning, a highly emotive State of the Heart, the set rounding out on the delightfully beautiful ballad Irreplaceable, coming to a close on the decadent balladry of April 24th, 1981 / My Father’s Chair.

Official Purchase Link

www.rickspringfield.com