The Essential Melissa Manchester: The Arista Years

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Midnight Blue
  3:25
• 2
  I Got Eyes
  2:43
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Just Too Many People
  3:29
  5.0 ★
• 4
  This Lady’s Not Home
  4:28
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Just You and I
  3:56
• 6
  My Sweet Thing
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Better Days
  3:42
• 8
  Sing, Sing, Sing
  4:24
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Rescue Me
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Happy Endings
  3:26
• 11
  Monkey See Monkey Do
  3:13
• 12
  So’s My Old Man
  4:21
• 13
  Be Somebody
  3:39
• 14
  Dirty Work
  3:10
• 15
  I Wanna Be Where You Are
  3:29
• 16
  No One’s Ever Seen This Side of Me
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Don’t Cry Out Loud
  3:43
• 18
  We Had This Time
  4:39
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Through the Eyes of Love (theme from the motion picture “Ice Castles”)
  3:39
• 20
  Such a Morning
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Pretty Girls
  3:53
• 22
  Fire in the Morning
  3:50
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  It’s All in the Sky Above
  4:20
• 2
  Lights of Dawn
  3:34
• 3
  If This Is Love
  3:36
• 4
  Talk
  3:46
• 5
  Without You
  3:25
• 6
  Boys in the Backroom
  3:35
• 7
  Lovers After All
  3:43
• 8
  Happier Than I’ve Ever Been
  3:26
• 9
  Race to the End
  3:46
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Long Goodbyes
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 11
  You Should Hear How She Talks About You
  3:49
• 12
  Hey Ricky (You’re a Low‐Down Heel)
  3:46
• 13
  Come In From the Rain
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Nice Girls
  3:34
• 15
  My Boyfriend’s Back
  3:25
• 16
  Looking for the Perfect Ahh
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 17
  No One Can Love You More Than Me
  4:03
  4.0 ★
• 18
  White Rose
  3:53
  3.0 ★
• 19
  I Don’t Care What People Say
  3:35
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Emergency
  4:57
• 21
  You Should Hear How She Talks About You (special extended version)
  5:02

More by Melissa Manchester

The Fellas

The Fellas 2017

You Gotta Love the Life

You Gotta Love the Life 2015

Joy

Joy 1997

The Essence of Melissa Manchester

The Essence of Melissa Manchester 1997

Tribute

Tribute 1989

Emergency

Emergency 1983

Release credits

• Abraham Laboriel
  bass guitar [9, 13, 16-17]
• Andy Mackintosh
  additional [11], brass [11]
• Arif Mardin
  arranger [9, 13-14], mix [14], producer [1.19, 2.9-21], strings [18], vibraphone [14]
• Art Rodriguez
  drums (drum set) [20], electronic drum set [20]
• Barry Fasman
  arranger [17], brass [3-6], strings [3-6]
• Bill Peterson
  additional [12], brass [12]
• Bill Schnee
  mix [2-4]
• Bob Christianson
  additional [17, 19], synclavier [17], synthesizer [13, 19]
• Bob Schaper
  engineer [7, 10-16], mix [6, 8-9], recording [2-4, 6, 8-9]
• Brie Howard
  background vocals [2, 13, 16]
• Carlos Vega
  drums (drum set) [14, 17-19]
• Chuck Rainey
  bass guitar [20]
• Claudia Cagan
  background vocals [16]
• Dan Carter
  guitar [14]
• Dann Huff
  guitar [19]
• David Lasley
  background vocals [19]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [16]
• David Williams
  guitar [17]
• David Wolfert
  acoustic guitar [2-3], electric guitar [3-4], electric sitar [13]
• Dean Parks
  acoustic guitar [18], guitar [9, 13, 16]
• Dick Hyde
  additional [12], brass [12]
• Dick Nash
  additional [12], brass [12]
• Don Grolnick
  keyboard [16]
• Doug Wintz
  additional [11], brass [11]
• Ed Seay
  mix [3-6, 8]
• Eva Haskell
  background vocals [14]
• Gail Kantor
  background vocals [16]
• Galen Senogles
  mix [16]
• Gary Coleman
  vibraphone [12]
• Gary Skardina
  assistant [14]
• Gordon Grody
  background vocals [19]
• Greg Phillinganes
  electric piano [20]
• Hamish Stuart
  background vocals [16]
• Harry Maslin
  producer [17]
• James Newton Howard
  celesta [2], electric piano [3, 13], organ [4], strings [13-14], synthesizer [2, 6, 8-9]
• Jeff Mironov
  guitar [16]
• Jeff Porcaro
  drums (drum set) [9, 13, 16]
• Jeremy Smith
  engineer [14, 17-19], mix [9], recording [9-10]
• Joe Esposito
  background vocals [13]
• John Kovarek
  assistant [14]
• Johnny Rotella
  baritone saxophone [3]
• Johnny Vastano
  electric guitar [6, 9], pedal steel guitar [8]
• Jude Johnstone
  background vocals [14]
• Julie Last
  assistant [14]
• Karla Bonoff
  background vocals [17]
• King Errisson
  congas [4]
• Kirk Bruner
  background vocals [2, 14], chimes [13], drums (drum set) [3-4]
• Lani Groves
  background vocals [16]
• Larry Williams
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Lee Ritenour
  guitar [20]
• Lenny Castro
  background vocals [14], percussion [16, 20]
• Leon Ware
  producer [18, 20]
• Lew McCreary
  additional [12], brass [12], trombone [3]
• Linda Tyler
  assistant [11-14]
• Marcy Levy
  background vocals [17, 19]
• Melissa Manchester
  additional [1.22, 2.1], background vocals [1.2-3, 1.22, 2.1, 2.16], electric piano [2, 4], lead vocals [2.13-14, 2.16-17, 2.19, 1.2-3, 1.16, 1.20], piano [1.3, 2.2], strings [3], vocal [1.4, 1.6-15, 1.17-19, 1.21-22, 2.1-13, 2.15, 2.18, 2.20-21]
• Michael Boddicker
  additional [17], percussion [19], synthesizer [1.20, 2.19], vocoder [17]
• Michael Brecker
  tenor saxophone [19]
• Michael Landau
  guitar [14]
• Michael O’Reilly
  mix [14, 17-19]
• Millie Whiteside
  background vocals [14, 19]
• Milt Calise
  engineer [18, 20]
• Morton K. Salt
  percussion [2]
• Nathan East
  bass guitar [14, 18]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [22]
• Peabo Bryson
  vocal [7]
• Peter Cannarozzi
  additional [14, 19], synthesizer [14, 19]
• Phil Schier
  mix [18, 20]
• Randy McCormick
  arranger [3-6, 8], strings [21]
• Richard Felts
  additional [11], brass [11]
• Robbie Buchanan
  arranger [14, 16-19], electric piano [14, 18], keyboard [16-17], piano [9, 13, 18-19], synthesizer [9, 13-14, 16-17, 17, 19], vocoder [17]
• Robert Feist
  assistant [14]
• Robin Beck
  background vocals [14, 16]
• Robin Clark
  background vocals [19]
• Sharon O’Neal
  background vocals [14]
• Stanley Schwartz
  tenor saxophone [11], tubular bells [13]
• Stephen Benben
  assistant [14]
• Steve Buckingham
  arranger [3-6, 8], producer [1.21-22, 2.1-8]
• Steve Dorff
  strings [21-22]
• Steve Gadd
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Steve Lukather
  guitar [14]
• Steve Madaio
  additional [12], brass [12], trumpet [3]
• Steve Nelson
  background vocals [13]
• Steven Cagan
  brass [8], conductor [12], orchestrator [12], strings [8]
• The Faragher Brothers
  background vocals [9, 16]
• Tom Bush
  assistant [16]
• Tom Saviano
  additional [11], arranger [20], brass [11]
• Tony Levin
  bass guitar [16]
• Trevor Lawrence
  brass [3, 9], soprano saxophone [4], strings [3-4], tenor saxophone [3]
• Ula Hedwig
  background vocals [19]
• Vini Poncia
  background vocals [2-3, 13, 16], producer [2-4, 6-16]
• Wendy Haas
  background vocals [16]
• Wendy Waldman
  background vocals [17]
• Will Lee
  background vocals [14, 16]
• “Cooker” John LoPresti
  bass guitar [2-4]
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  The Essential Melissa Manchester: The Arista Years

  2x Digital Media
  14 September 2018