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Columns | col1width = 80% | col1 = "Midnight Blue" is a title of a Top Ten hit single by Melissa Manchester which was taken from her 1975 album ''Melissa'': ''Billboard'' magazine described the song as "a classically elegant quiet ballad about a pair of longtime lovers putting aside their aggravations until the dawn in order to try making it one more time in memory of all their old times together." 〔''Billboard'' vol *}}87 #20 (17 May 1975) p. 28〕 ==Background== The song had been written by Manchester in 1973 as Manchester's first collaboration with Carole Bayer Sager who would be Manchester's regular lyricist over the next five years: Manchester would recall: "the songs that I wrote with Carole...all came out of conversations. Therefore the tone of the songs was very conversational. The listener always feels like they are in the moment when that first line is uttered." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Interview : She knows who she is: an interview with Melissa Manchester )〕 After meeting Manchester backstage after Philharmonic Hall concert of New Years Ever 1972 - Manchester then ending her tenure as a member of Midler's onstage chorale - Bayer Sager suggested she and Manchester write a song to cut as a demo (music)eting Manchester backstage after Bette Midler's Philharmonic Hall concert of New Years Ever 1972 - Manchester then ending her tenure as a member of Midler's onstage chorale - Bayer Sager suggested she and Manchester write a song to cut as a demo, 〔Sarasota Journal 10 March 1976 ''Commercial is Not a Dirty Word Anymore (Newspaper Enterprise Assoc.) p. 8D〕 the result being "Midnight Blue". Although Manchester's first two album releases: ''Home to Myself'' and ''Bright Eyes'' in respectively 1973 and 1974 would overall feature eight songs she'd co-written with Bayer Sager, Manchester herself would not record "Midnight Blue" until 1975. The demo of "Midnight Blue" was submitted by Sager and Manchester to producer Vini Poncia in hopes of having his purported client Dionne Warwick record the song: 〔Wilmington Star-News ''Manchester Back Up to Standards'' by Hillel Italie (Associated Press) p. 3D〕 instead the demo convinced Poncia to record the singer of the demo who was Manchester herself. Poncia waited for almost two years - allowing Manchester to fulfill her obligations to the producers of her two Bell Records albums - before approaching Manchester with regard to producing her. 〔Observer-Reporter 7 January 1976 ''Melissa Not Blue Over Last Album'' by Robin Welles (Copley News Service) p. B-9〕 In the interim Manchester had personally pitched "Midnight Blue" to Dusty Springfield according to Springfield's friend Sue Cameron who recalls Manchester visiting Springfield's Laurel Canyon home and playing Springfield the demo of "Midnight Blue" - Cameron (quote): "She told Melissa no. Melissa leaves the house. I went: 'Are you crazy?'" With Richard Perry as executive producer, Poncia oversaw the sessions for Manchester's debut Arista album ''Melissa'' in the first months of 1975, with "Midnight Blue" issued as the lead single that spring (the single edit trimmed 29 seconds off the album track's outro). On the original track listing for the album ''Melissa'' the track's title is spelled "Midnite Blue", a spelling which was retained for the track's single release in Australia. | col2 = }} 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「Midnight Blue (Melissa Manchester song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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