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''Benny Mardones'' is the fourth studio album from American rock and pop singer Benny Mardones, released in 1989. It was Mardones' first release since the 1981 album ''Too Much to Lose'' after battling personal issues such as a drug addiction. ==Background== The album was Mardones' first of two albums for Curb Records. The album was recorded and released after the successful re-issue of Mardones' 1980 hit song "Into the Night". In 1989, a Where Are They Now? Arizona radio segment spurred Los Angeles DJ Scott Shannon to add the "Into the Night" song to his playlist, ultimately rocketing the song back onto the national charts, on May 6, 1989. Mardones' recording peaked this time at #20 the first week in July (the original 1980 issue peaked at #11), adding 17 weeks to its previous run of 20, to add up to a total of 37 (non consecutive) weeks, breaking the record set by Laura Branigan with her single "Gloria", which charted for 36 (consecutive) weeks from July 1982 to March 1983, for the longest-charting single of the 1980s by a solo artist. Curb Records quickly signed Mardones to their label, where he re-recorded "Into the Night", and a full album of new material soon followed. The self-titled album, or "the blue album" as referred by Mardones' fans was released to little success, as Curb was best known for being a country label and was not able to capitalize on the success of the "Into the Night" re-issue. The album had announced the return of Joel Diamond as Mardones' manager. Originally, Diamond was the first man to give Mardones' a job in the music industry and got him to start writing songs.〔 Diamond was the album's executive producer. The album was the first where Mardones' son Michael Everett Mardones is listed as a backup singer.〔 It was produced entirely by Michael Lloyd.〔 For the album, Mardones mainly wrote the tracks with Mark Mangold and Duane Evans, whilst "Never Far Away" was written between Mardones, Mangold and Al Frisch. "I'll Be Good to You" was written by Mark Spiro and Steve Kipner. Evans had previously co-wrote the track "Sheila C." from Mardones' 1981 album ''Too Much to Lose''. "How Could You Love Me" would later be re-recorded for Mardones' 1995 album ''Stand By Your Man''〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/stand-by-your-man-r901989〕 and his 2002 album ''A Journey Through Time''.〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-journey-through-time-mw0000226271〕 In a 1989 interview with Mardones by Gary James, Mardones was asked if he ever wondered if Curb Records knew how to market him on such a country-orientated label. He replied ''"Well, I think they ran into problems. I think they've made a lot of mistakes on this last album, but I think that they're learning and they're re-structuring their company, their distribution and promotion situation, because they haven't been in the rock 'n' roll place and that's what they're attempting to do. They want me to be the cornerstone of the label. Meanwhile, I'm not going to allow too many more mistakes to be made at my expense. They haven't made mistakes, but I think the promotion fell short. I have no complaints about Curb Records. They treat me like gold. Mike Curb is a wonderful human being. The people at Curb Records are in my corner a hundred and fifty per cent. All we're doing is getting through the rough spots. We're looking forward to a wonderful 1990. We're looking forward to a wonderful relationship with one another. I think that certain errors were made as far as the promotion of the record, but I think they were innocent mistakes. No malice intended."'' When James also noted that he liked the new album, Mardones replied ''"Thank you very much. I love it."''〔http://www.classicbands.com/BennyMardonesInterview.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benny Mardones (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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