04/02/2020

Melissa Manchester "Better Days & Happy Endings" (1976) -Soft Rock-



Label : Arista Records


États-Unis Side 1

01 - Happy Endings (Melissa Manchester)
02 - You Can Make It All Come True (Melissa Manchester & Vini Poncia)
03 - Better Days (Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager)
04 - My Sweet Thing (Melissa Manchester & David Wolfert)
05 - Come In From The Rain (Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager)

Side 2

01 - Rescue Me (Carl Smith & Raynard Miner)
02 - Just You And I (Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager)
03 - Stand Up Woman (Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager)
04 - Good News (Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager)
05 - Sing, Sing, Sing (Melissa Manchester)


Musicians :
Melissa Manchester : Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Clavinet
David Wolfert : Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Clavinet
'Cooker' Lo Presti : Bass
Stanley Schwartz : Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Clavinet, Tenor Sax
Kirk Bruner : Drums, Percussion
Lenny Castro : Congas, Percussion
Backing vocals : Melissa Manchester, Vini Poncia, Lenny Castro, Kirk Bruner & 'Cooker' Lo Presti

Very Special Thanks To :
James Newton Howard : ARP Synthesizer on "Better Days", "Come In From The Rain", "My Sweet Thing", "Rescue Me", "Good News" & "Sing, Sing, Sing"
John Vastano : Electric Guitar on "My Sweet Thing" & "Rescue Me", Acoustic Guitar on "Stand Up Woman" & Pedal Steel Guitar on "Sing, Sing, Sing"
The Faragher Brothers : Backing vocals on "Rescue Me" & "You Can Make It All Come True"
Carole Bayer Sager : For her shoulder and her soul

Strings, Horns & Woodwinds Arranged & Conducted by Barry Fasman
Horns on "Rescue Me" & "You Can Make It All Come True" Arranged by Trevor Lawrence

Recorded at :
Davlen Studios, North Hollywood, California
Assistant Engineers : Linda Feldman, Thom Wilson
Producer's Workshop, Hollywood, California
Assistant Engineers : Galen Senogles, Joe Bellamy
Sound Labs, Inc., Hollywood, California
Assistant Engineer : Linda Tyler
Disc-Cutting : The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, California / Doug Sax

Produced by Vini Poncia for Richard Perry Productions
Recording & Remix Engineer : Bob Schaper