Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester (Drum Cover)

Описание: Okay I have a thing for listening to great women singers. To me there is nothing harder to play correctly then a ballad. Tempo, touch and feel all contribute to making a great ballad sound huge. Ballads were big in the 70s! And I loved listening and playing along to great ones. This song is one of them. The drummer is Jim Keltner.

According to Arista Records president Clive Davis, Melissa Manchester recorded "Don't Cry Out Loud" at his strong suggestion. Davis felt that Manchester's intended 1979 album release lacked a potential top 40 comeback hit. Although Manchester herself regularly collaborated with lyricist Carole Bayer Sager—their output including Manchester's sole (to that point) top ten hit "Midnight Blue.” Harry Maslin (producer) recalled that Manchester "hated the song 'Don't Cry Out Loud' and was angry with me for doing it.

Manchester conceded reservations about the song's theme, saying in 2004: "I finally understand what it meant...I thought it was a brilliant song but it seemed like the antithesis of everything Carole [Bayer Sager] and I were writing which was always about self-affirmation …. But it's a beautifully crafted song that was all about how in the end you just have to learn to cope—and that's no easy thing."

Personnel
Melissa Manchester – lead vocals
Bill Payne – acoustic piano
Lee Ritenour – guitar
Dennis Budimir – guitar
David Hungate – bass
Jim Keltner – drums
Barry Fasman – arrangements
Harry Bluestone – concertmaster
Frank DeCaro – conductor

Recorded at Allen Zentz Studios Hollywood, "Don't Cry Out Loud" was released 11 October 1978 and did indeed reach the top 40 at the end of 1978, rising to a number 10 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 twenty weeks later in March 1979. The single also reached number 9 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and thanks to its long chart life on the Hot 100, was ranked as Billboard′s 26th biggest hit of 1979, ranking ahead of a number of songs that reached higher (but shorter) peaks on the weekly surveys (including Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" and the Bee Gees' number-one hit "Love You Inside Out").

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