The Paris Collection

Infobox Album
Name = The Paris Collection
Type = studio
Artist = Dollar

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Released = November 1980
Recorded = 1980
Genre = Pop, MOR
Length =
Label = WEA
Producer = Dollar, Greg Walsh, Phil Wainman
Reviews =
Last album = "Shooting Stars"
(1979)
This album = The Paris Collection
(1980)
Next album = "The Dollar album"
(1982)

"The Paris Collection" is the second album released by the pop group Dollar. [http://www.dollarsite.co.uk/]

Released in 1980, the album was the first the group released on the WEA label. Recorded, appropriately enough, in Paris, the album failed to proved Dollar with the same success they had achieved a year previously and out of the three single releases, only "Takin' a Chance on You" became a minor hit. [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=9083] The album itself failed to chart. The other singles were "The Girls are Out to Get Ya" and "You Take My Breath Away". In an attempt to promote the album, members David Van Day and Thereza Bazar announced their engagement, when in reality, they had split up as a couple months earlier. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A933248] [Top 10 Duos (Documentary), Channel 4 Television] Tracks on the album were written by the group themselves and largely produced by them along with Greg Walsh. Experienced hit producer Phil Wainman produced one song - "The Girls are Out to Get Ya" - which was the lead single from the album, but failed to make an impact.

Dollar went on to achieve their biggest success with the label when they teamed up with producer Trevor Horn in 1981. Tracks from this album were released as B-sides to the singles in a further attempt to boost sales of the album. Many of the tracks were released on CD on a 2006 compilation album, "The Platinum Collection". [http://www.dollarsite.co.uk/disc/album.html]

Track listing

Side One ("The Spring Collection")
#Radio
#The Girls are Out to Get Ya
#Young Love
#You Take My Breath Away
#Love at First Sight

Side Two ("The Autumn Collection")
#Takin' a Chance on You
#Ebony
#No Man's Land
#Don't Change Your Life
#Heartbeat (Love Me Slowly)

Chart performance

{| class="wikitable"
-! Release date! Album title! UK Chart position
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November 1980
"The Paris Collection"
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