North Coast is an album by the Cleveland based Michael Stanley Band which was released in 1981. It reached No. 79 on the Billboard charts and included the hit Falling in Love Again which reached No. 64 on the Billboard hot singles list. It was the second album for the group on EMI America. The album's title refers to Cleveland, Ohio's "North Coast", which is the city's lakefront district. Stanley also used the term to portray Cleveland as its own "coast," separate from the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S. [1]
The album opens with In the Heartland, Stanley's ode to the life of a typical midwestern American. This was also a nod to the band's previous album, Heartland. This was followed by keyboardist Kevin Raleigh's When Your Heart Says It's Right, Stanley/Pelander's Somewhere in the Night, and Stanley's Heaven and Hell, all of which became standards at the band's performances for sold out crowds in the midwest states.[2] One of the most ambitious tracks on the record was the New Wave-sounding Chemistry. The sole hit was "Falling in Love Again" written by Michael Stanley and keyboardist Bob Pelander. It reached No. 64 on the Billboard charts. The B-side was "Does It Hurt". The album concludes with another blue-collar rock anthem, "Let's Hear It."
