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''Don't Cry Out Loud'' is the title of the seventh album by Melissa Manchester. It was released by Arista Records in October 1978. ==Background== Most of the album's tracks were recorded with Leon Ware producing; Ware had expressed an interest in recording Manchester based on the singer's version of the Ware composition "I Wanna Be Where You Are" featured on the 1977 album release ''Singin'...''. The tracks Manchester recorded with Ware intended as the singer's 1978 album release - which Manchester planned to name ''Caravan'' - were all original material except "Bad Weather", a Stevie Wonder composition which had been a single for the Supremes in 1974. According to Arista president Clive Davis upon hearing the ''Caravan'' tracks he felt the album as planned would not afford Manchester the Top 40 hit required to revive her career and at Davis' strong suggestion Manchester recorded the Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager composition "Don't Cry Out Loud" with Harry Maslin producing. 〔''Billboard'' vol 93 #26 (4 July 1981) p.6〕 Manchester has stated that in fact the idea of recording "Don't Cry Out Loud" was her own, although she had anticipated recording it in the intimate manner evinced by its writer Peter Allen on his recorded version, and was surprised by the bombastic arrangement used for her recording. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Interview: Melissa Manchester on You Gotta Love the Life )〕 The addition of the new track "Don't Cry Out Loud" to the album necessitated the dropping of the track "We Had This Time" an apparently one-off songwriting collaboration of Manchester and Larry Weiss - which was utilized as the B-side of the "Don't Cry Out Loud" single: "We Had This Time" would also be recorded by Dionne Warwick for her 1980 album ''No Night So Long''. With the addition of the "Don't Cry Out Loud" track, Manchester's album was released in October 1978 with "Don't Cry Out Loud" issued as a single; the album was renamed for the single despite Manchester's desire to retain the title ''Caravan''.〔''Billboard'' vol 90 #38 (23 September 1978)〕 "Don't Cry Out Loud" did indeed return Manchester to the Top 40 in fact attaining a #10 peak in March 1979 in its twentieth week on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100; the single's popularity was paralleled by the ascent of the ''Don't Cry Out Loud'' album to #33. Rather than release a second A-side single from the ''Don't Cry Out Loud'' album, Arista attempted to follow-up the success of the "Don't Cry Out Loud" single with "Through the Eyes of Love", the theme song from the movie ''Ice Castles''; the track, for which "Such a Morning" from the ''Don't Cry Out Loud'' album served as B-side, failed to consolidate Manchester's comeback, peaking at #76. "Through the Eyes of Love" would be included as a bonus track on the CD re-release of the ''Don't Cry Out Loud'' album, as would the B-side of the "Don't Cry Out Loud" single: "We Had This Time". 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「Don't Cry Out Loud (Melissa Manchester album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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