Alfa Records
The following year, Vera recorded a self-titled solo album, with instrumentation by The Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section and produced by Jerry Wexler. However, Vera's record deal evaporated almost immediately upon the album's release, as Alfa Records closed its U.S. offices in July 1982. The "Billy Vera" album spun off no hits, and failed to chart. A small-label album release from 1983, "The Mystic Sound of Billy Vera", similarly met with little commercial success.