Melissa Manchester – Help Is On The Way 1976 (USA, Pop/Blue-Eyed Soul)

02 Май 2024 - vovchik59

Исполнитель: Melissa Manchester
Откуда: USA
Альбом: Help Is On The Way
Год выхода: 1976
Жанр: Pop/Blue-Eyed Soul
Формат: MP3 CBR 320 (Vinyl Rip)
Размер архива: 83.2 МB

Melissa Manchester is an American singer and actress who began her musical career at the age of 15 by singing in advertising jingles. As a student, she took music composition lessons at New York University with a certain … Paul Simon (from the future legendary duo Simon & Garfunkel …). And it’s Bette Midler who got her started in 1971 by including him in his “Harlettes”. She released her first album «Home to myself» in 1973, a relatively successful album. It was not until 1975 and the album «Melissa» that she finally took off thanks to the Single «Midnight blue», a Single that included the American Top10. Four years will pass before she knows in 1979 a new Top10 thanks to its resumption of the title «Don’t cry out loud» by Peter Allen. She would experience her second biggest success in 1982 with the title «You should hear how she talks about you», from the album «Hey Ricky» and for which she would even win a Grammy Award. She had two last major successes with «Nice girls» in 1983 and «Thief of hearts» in 1984. Which will not prevent her from continuing the adventure subsequently and producing titles of significant quality.

Tracks:
01. Talkin’ To Myself — 4:21
02. Be Somebody — 3:37
03. A Fool In Love — 3:04
04. Headlines — 4:35
05. Help Is On The Way — 4:04
06. Monkey See, Monkey Do — 3:12
07. Dirty Work — 3:07
08. So’s My Old Man — 4:18
09. There’s More Where That Came From — 3:58
10. Singing From My Soul — 1:29

Personnel:
Melissa Manchester — lead & backing vocals, piano, electric piano
John Vastano — electric guitar, backing vocals (03)
Cooker Lo Presti — bass, backing vocals (01, 03)
David Wolfert — guitar, electric sitar, horn arrangements
Stanley Schwartz — piano, electric piano, clavinet, calliope, glockenspiel, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, harpsichord
Lenny Castro — percussion, backing vocals
Kirk Bruner — drums, bell chime, trombone, backing vocals (03, 07, 09)
James Newton Howard — electric piano (02), strings arrangements (02, 05, 07, 09)
Rich Felts, Tom Saviano — horns (04, 06)
Andrew Mackintosh, Doug Wintz — horns (06)
Bill Petersen, Dick Hyde, Dick Nash, Lew McCreary, Steve Madaio — horns (08)
Gary Coleman — vibraphone (08)
Brie Howard, Joe Bean, Steve Nelson — backing vocals (02)
Betty Jones, Brenda L. Gooch, Charity McCrary, Jan E. Jones, Linda McCrary, Sundray Tucker, Theresa Hendricks — backing vocals (05)
Steven Cagan — conductor (08, 10)
Sid Sharp — concertmaster
Vini Poncia — producer, backing vocals (02)