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Rockinghorse
Rockinghorse
Studio album by Alannah Myles
Released	October 13, 1992
Studio	Brooklyn Recording (New York City) ; Capitol Studios (Los Angeles, California) ; Saturn Sound (Studio City, California) ; The Complex (Los Angeles, California) ; Mad Dog Studios (Burbank, California) ; Westlake Studios (Los Angeles, California) ; A&M Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Rock
Length	50:10
Label	Atlantic
Producer	David Tyson
Alannah Myles chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[2]
Orlando Sentinel	^[3]

Rockinghorse is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alannah Myles, released on October 13, 1992, by Atlantic Records. It spawned five singles, "Song Instead of a Kiss", "Tumbleweed", "Our World, Our Times", "Living on a Memory", and "Sonny Say You Will" (the first one of which Myles co-wrote). The album was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Our World Our Times"	Christopher Ward David Tyson	6:25
2.	"Make Me Happy"	Ward Tyson	5:47
3.	"Sonny Say You Will"	Ward	5:04
4.	"Tumbleweed"	Ward	4:36
5.	"Livin' on a Memory"	Ward Tyson	5:50
6.	"Song Instead of a Kiss"	Alannah Myles Robert Priest Nancy Simmonds	5:03
7.	"Love in the Big Town"	Ward Tyson	4:45
8.	"The Last Time I Saw William"	Myles Ward Tyson	4:12
9.	"Lies and Rumours"	Ward Tyson	5:06
10.	"Rockinghorse"	Myles Simmonds Ward	3:00

Personnel

Musicians

Alannah Myles – vocals
David Tyson – keyboards, bass, backing vocals
Kurt Schefter – guitars
David Wipper – acoustic guitars, mandolin
Buzz Feiten – electric guitars (5)
Will Lee – bass
Denny Fongheiser – drums, percussion
Jørn Andersen – additional cymbals (1)
Larry Williams – saxophones
Greg Smith – baritone saxophone (2, 4)
Gary Grant – trumpets
John Elefante – backing vocals
Mark Free – backing vocals
Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
Christopher Ward – backing vocals
Rose Stone – backing vocals

Production

Produced by David Tyson
Executive Producer – Christopher Ward
Engineered by Brian Foraker
Additional Engineering by Brad Aldredge, Richard Benoit, Bill Dooley and Peter Willis.
Assistant Engineers – Brad Aldredge, Peter Doell, Jeff Graham, Efren Herrera, Leslie Ann Kones, Dominique Schafer, Scott Stillman and Ben Wallach.
Tracks 1-5, 7, 8 & 9 mixed by Tom Lord-Alge
Tracks 6 & 10 mixed by Brian Foraker
Recorded at Brooklyn Recording (Brooklyn, New York); Capitol Studios and A&M Studios (Hollywood, California), Saturn Sound (Studio City, California); Mad Dog Studios (Burbank, California); Westlake Audio and The Complex (Los Angeles, California).
Mixed at Image Recording Studios and Westlake Audio (Los Angeles, California).
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, California).
Production Coordinator – Shari Sutcliffe
Cover Photography – Reisig & Taylor
Creative Director and Wardrobe Design – Alannah Myles
Art Direction and Design – Tom Bricker
Atlantic Records Creative Director –Melanie Nissen
Creative Design – Lisa Panagapka for Alannahworks
Make-up – Michael Bonneville
Hair Design – Helen Chudoba

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *Rockinghorse*
Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[4]	65
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[5]	40
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)^[6]	9
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[7]	9
European Albums (Music & Media)^[8]	58
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[9]	19
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[10]	53
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[11]	23
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[12]	16

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for *Rockinghorse*
Chart (1992)	Position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)^[13]	37

Certifications

Certifications for *Rockinghorse*
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[14]	2× Platinum	200,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ AllMusic review
^ Moon, Tom (November 6, 1992). "Rockinghorse". Entertainment Weekly.
^ Gettelman, Parry (November 13, 1992). "Alannah Myles". Orlando Sentinel.
^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 198.
^ "Austriancharts.at – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 1857". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
^ "Top 10 Sales in Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 9, no. 48. 28 November 1992. p. 24. OCLC 29800226 – via World Radio History.
^ "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 9, no. 48. 28 November 1992. p. 25. OCLC 29800226 – via World Radio History.
^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
^ "Swedishcharts.com – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
^ "Swisscharts.com – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
^ "The RPM Top 100 Albums of 1992" (PDF). RPM. Vol. 56, no. 25. 19 December 1992. p. 13. ISSN 0033-7064 – via World Radio History.
^ "Canadian album certifications – Alannah Myles – Rockinghorse". Music Canada. March 8, 1993. Retrieved September 28, 2021.