Don't Cry Out Loud (Melissa Manchester album)

Don't Cry Out Loud (Melissa Manchester album)
Don't Cry Out Loud
Studio album by Melissa Manchester
Released October 1978
Genre Rock
Label Arista
Producer Leon Ware, Harry Maslin
Melissa Manchester chronology
Singin'...
(1977)
Don't Cry Out Loud
(1978)
Melissa Manchester (1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]

Don't Cry Out Loud is the title of the seventh album by Melissa Manchester; it was released by Arista Records in October 1978.

Contents

Background

Most of the album's tracks were recorded with Leon Ware producing; Ware had expressed an interest in recording Manchester based on the singer's version of the Ware composition "I Wanna Be Where You Are" featured on the 1977 album release Singin'.... The tracks Manchester recorded with Ware intended as the singer's 1978 album release - which Manchester planned to name Caravan - were all original material except "Bad Weather", a Stevie Wonder composition which had been a single for the Supremes in 1974. When Manchester submitted the Caravan tracks to Arista, label owner Clive Davis felt none of the tracks would afford Manchester the Top 40 hit required to revive her career and at Davis' strong suggestion Manchester recorded the Peter Allen/Carole Bayer Sager composition "Don't Cry Out Loud" with Harry Maslin producing.[2]

With the addition of the "Don't Cry Out Loud" track, Manchester's album was released in October 1978 with "Don't Cry Out Loud" issued as a single; the album was renamed for the single despite Manchester's desire to retain the title Caravan.[3] "Don't Cry Out Loud" did indeed return Manchester to the Top 40 in fact attaining a #10 peak in March 1979 in its twentieth week on the Billboard Hot 100; the single's popularity was paralleled by the ascent of the Don't Cry Out Loud album to #33.

Rather than release a second A-side single from the Don't Cry Out Loud album, Arista attempted to follow-up the success of the "Don't Cry Out Loud" single with "Theme from Ice Castles", the theme song from the movie Ice Castles; a track - for which "Such a Morning" from the Don't Cry Out Loud album served as B-side - which failed to consolidate Manchester's comeback, peaking at #76.

Track listing

  1. "Shine Like You Should" (Manchester) 3:13
  2. "Caravan" (Manchester) 3:42
  3. "Don't Cry Out Loud" (Peter Allen, Carole Bayer Sager) 3:50
  4. "Almost Everything" (Manchester, Leon Ware) 2:44
  5. "Bad Weather" (Ira Tucker Jr., Stevie Wonder) 3:20
  6. "Through the Eyes of Grace" (Manchester) 4:01
  7. "To Make You Smile Again" (Manchester, Bayer Sager) 4:51
  8. "Such a Morning" (Manchester, Steve Cagan) 2:51
  9. "Knowing My Love's Alive" (Manchester, Ware) 4:00
  10. "Singin' from My Soul" (Manchester, Adrienne Anderson) 3:29

Personnel

Production

  • Produced By Leon Ware & Harry Maslin
  • Mixed By Phil Schier, except "Don't Cry Out Loud" produced and mixed by Harry Maslin
  • Edited & Mastered By Jo Hansch

References

  1. ^ allmusic review
  2. ^ Billboard vol 93 #26 (4 July 1981) p.6
  3. ^ Billboard vol 90 #38 (23 September 1978)

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