No Night So Long
| No Night So Long | ||||
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| Studio album by Dionne Warwick | ||||
| Released | July 18, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop, Adult Contemporary, Light R&B | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Producer | Steve Buckingham | |||
| Dionne Warwick chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
No Night So Long, Dionne Warwick's second album for the Arista label, was released in 1980. It was recorded during the spring of 1980 and was released that summer. The LP was originally issued as number AL 9526 in the Arista Catalog. It sold over 500,000 copies in the US alone.
This album is now back in print re-released in tandem with Soul Music Records and Sony Legacy in an expanded edition with additional tracks.
History
The album's title track, "No Night So Long" was written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings, the same team that wrote Dionne's 1979 comeback hit "I'll Never Love This Way Again". Isaac Hayes and Adrienne Anderson contributed another soft love song, "We Never Said Goodbye". The duo had provided Warwick with "Deja Vu" in 1979 from the previous album Dionne.The cover art for this LP features Warwick in a grey background wearing a grey mink coat, which is from her personal collection. This album was reissued on CD by Nippon/Phonogram-Arista in Japan in 1988, but only 500 copies of this CD were pressed. Until March 2010, no other CDs were produced. In 2005, six of the ten tracks from the original LP were reissued on Warwick's Legends three-CD import set in the UK.
A CD reissue with new liner notes by David Nathan and quotes by Dionne Warwick herself was released in March 2010 by soulmusic.com with three bonus tracks: "Dedicate This Heart" from Hot! Live and Otherwise (a cut that has been omitted from all CD releases of that album), the Michael Masser-produced "This Time is Ours" (a B-side from the 1981 single, "Some Changes Are For Good"), and "Only Heaven Can Wait" from the same sessions (previously released only on a 2007 soulmusic.com compilation CD titled Dedicated to Soul). By including "This Time Is Ours" on the 2010 No Night So Long reissued CD, the song makes both its first appearance on a Dionne Warwick full-length album and its first appearance on any CD.
In the 2010 CD liner notes, author David Nathan indicates that there were three additional songs from the No Night So Long sessions that did not make it onto the original album -- "This Is What I've Wanted All My Life", "Now That The Feeling's Gone" and "Starting Tomorrow" -- and could not be licensed for inclusion on the 2010 CD and may one day be released on another CD. In 2014 Funkytowngroves released a Remastered Expanded Edition and this now includes the previously mentioned tracks - 2 versions (Piano Version /Full Mix) of "This Is What I've Wanted All My Life" plus "Now That The Feeling's Gone" and "Starting Tomorrow" 4 bonus tracks in total.
Track listing
| Side one | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "Easy Love" | Steve Dorff, Larry Herbstritt, Randy Cate | 3:15 |
| 2. | "No Night So Long" | Richard Kerr, Will Jennings | 3:26 |
| 3. | "It's the Falling in Love" | Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster | 3:23 |
| 4. | "When the World Runs Out of Love" | Chris Christian, Robbie Patton | 3:44 |
| 5. | "We Never Said Goodbye" | Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Anderson | 3:41 |
| Side two | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 6. | "How You Once Loved Me" | Allee Willis, Bruce Roberts | 3:33 |
| 7. | "Reaching for the Sky" | Peabo Bryson | 4:28 |
| 8. | "Sweetie Pie" | Eric Mercury, William Smith | 2:30 |
| 9. | "Somebody's Angel" | David Lasley, Peter Allen | 3:44 |
| 10. | "We Had This Time" | Melissa Manchester, Larry Weiss | 3:44 |
Personnel
- Dionne Warwick — vocals
- Larry Byrom, Steve Buckingham — guitar
- Tom Robb — bass
- Randy McCormick — keyboards
- Isaac Hayes — organ
- Joe Neil — synthesizer
- James Stroud — drums
- Mickey Buckins — percussion
- Jay Scott — alto sax solos
- Tower of Power Horn section — Greg Adams (musician) (arranged by), Mic Gillette, Lenny Pickett, Steve Kupka, Emilio Castillo
- Julia Waters, Kim Carnes, Mark Piscitelli, Maxine Waters, Nick Uhrig — background vocals
- Jimmy Getzoff — concertmaster
References
- ↑ "No Night So Long > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
