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Steady Nerves is a 1985 album by Graham Parker and the Shot. The album was produced by William Wittman, who Parker's record company, Elektra, initially opposed. Parker had originally proposed Squeezing Out Sparks producer Jack Nitzsche, but this had been rejected by Elektra. As a result, Elektra only forwarded the funds for four songs to be recorded before the company gave approval for Wittman; ultimately, the rest of the album was recorded and released. Parker recalled, I mentioned that Wittman, who had somehow or other come across my transom, had just engineered C. Lauper's rather brill She's So Unusual LP. Well, truth be told, Bill W. is quite a forceful little fella and I really had no input in the production at all and just gave up and let him get on with it. He obviously knew what he was doing, and that, to me, is the problem with the record. My weakness and laziness let it happen. I was really hoping for a much more unusual sounding collection but didn't have the brains and moxie to accomplish such a feat. The album contains his only US Top 40 hit, "Wake Up". Parker said of the song, "That breathy voice - I wrote the song like that. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)