Playing To Win

Playing to Win is the twenty-third studio album by American singer Rick Nelson, released in January 1981 by Capitol Records. It was the last album of new material Nelson released in his lifetime. His next studio effort, All My Best, featured re-recordings of old Nelson hits while The Memphis Sessions, his final collection of all-new material, was released posthumously. It featured several rockabilly songs, including "Back to School Days", a contemporary version of "Believe What You Say", and John Fogerty's "Almost Saturday Night", The Tentalive title came from one of his two originals on the album, "Call It What You Want," a jaunty, Rolling Stones-style romp, His other original, however, provided the LP's most prophetic song, "The Loser Babe is You." According to Nelson, "The album was going to be called 'It's Rock and Roll to Me', "but the idea was shelved because Billy Joel brought out a thing with the same theme, I just want to make records that sound like me. I've been through so many people telling me 'Go this direction' and then changing their minds the next day."

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