ONCE UPON A TIME.....Don't Cry Out Loud

 

MELISSA MANCHESTER Don't Cry Out Loud  (Arista,1978) - Pop


     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 and Carole Bayer Sager composition “Don’t Cry Out Loud” with Harry Maslin producing. 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. “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.

TRACKLIST : Shine Like You Should
                       Caravan
                       Don't Cry Out Loud
                       Almost Everything
                       Bad Weather
                       Through The Eyes Of Grace
                       To Make You Smile Again
                       Such A Morning
                       Knowing My Love's Alive
                       Singin' From My Soul


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