
She escaped through a window, was non-fatally shot and managed to crawl into the bushes where she hid overnight. Out of 247 women and 205 children in the church, only one 47-year-old woman managed to survive. As victims were trying to escape through the windows, they were met with machine-gun fire. Women and children were locked in a church where the soldiers set off an incendiary device.

Only 6 men escaped, although one was later shot dead.

Men were led into the sheds where they were shot by machine guns and later set ablaze. The unit, led by Adolf Diekmann, sealed the city and forced everyone out of their houses. Out of the entire village's population, only around 30 survived the massacre with 20 escaping the village before the SS unit arrived. It was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants including women and children were massacred by a German Nazi soldier company. Mike Reese – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California).Oradour-sur-Glane was a village in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France.John Mills – producer, engineer, mixing.Denise Subotnile – guitar, viola, backing vocals.Charlie Harrison – bass, backing vocals.Rusty Young – pedal steel guitar, guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals.Paul Cotton – guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals.Kim Bullard – keyboards, Prophet-5, backing vocals."When Hearts Collide" (Rusty Young) – 3:33."The Midnight Rodeo (In The Lead Tonight)" (Paul Cotton) – 2:39."Shoot For The Moon" (Rusty Young) – 2:48."How Will You Feel Tonight" (Paul Cotton) – 3:38.

Cotton has stated that Poco had problems with Atlantic Records: Poco would record one more album for Atlantic: Inamorata released in April 1984, then take a hiatus from recording until 1989 when the RCA Records release Legacy became Poco's second gold certified album. Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at #10.Ī third single release: "Break of Hearts" - cited as one of his favorite overlooked compositions by Paul Cotton who's described the song as a follow-up to Poco's 1979 Top 20 hit " Heart of the Night" - failed to chart. On the Cash Box chart, the song reached #44. The second single " Shoot for the Moon," while more successful fell short of the Top 40 with a Hot 100 peak of #50 in March 1983. Billboard Hot 100, "bubbling under" with a peak of #108. The first single from Ghost Town was the title cut which failed to reach the U.S. Ghost Town marked Poco's move to Atlantic Records with no resultant comeback peaking at #195 on the album chart in Billboard magazine, well below the peak of the group's final MCA album Cowboys & Englishmen which had been released in February 1982 to reach a chart peak of #131. The Atlantic Records label debut of Poco, Ghost Town was the final album by Poco to feature the group lineup who had played on Poco's 1978 breakout album Legend, as the 1984 Poco album release Inamorata would not feature Charlie Harrison.Īfter the gold certified success of the 1978 ABC Records album release Legend, Poco's three subsequent album releases on MCA Records - who had absorbed ABC - failed to reach that level of success. Ghost Town is the fifteenth studio album by the country rock band Poco, released September 20, 1982. Soundcastle and Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California) Jennifudy Studios (North Hollywood, California).
