Английская Википедия:If My Heart Had Wings (album)
Шаблон:Infobox album If My Heart Had Wings is an album by the American musician Melissa Manchester, released in 1995.[1][2] It was a commercial disappointment.[3][4]
Manchester promoted the album by performing the album's first single, "In a Perfect World", on the soap opera General Hospital.[5][6]
Production
The album was executive produced by Arif Mardin and Michael Lippman.[7] Due to Manchester's work on the musical I Sent a Letter to My Love, the album was produced over a period of two years.[8] "If My Heart Had Wings" was written with Amy Sky.[9]
Critical reception
Шаблон:Album ratings Entertainment Weekly wrote that "too often, the tunes on If My Heart Had Wings sound like bland anthems in search of a maudlin movie score."[10] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette thought that "Manchester turns in a hopelessly-out-of-it performance that serves as a harsh reminder that having great pipes is no guarantee of success."[11] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution opined that it was "too bad Manchester couldn't take a cue from Bonnie Raitt, whose music has grown along with her shock of gray hair and her insight."[12]
AllMusic wrote that the album was "filled with big, dramatic ballads and widescreen production values."[13] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide considered the album to be "not a great work [but] representative of her talent."[14]
Track listing
Personnel
- Melissa Manchester – vocals, backing vocals (6), arrangements (6, 8)
- Robbie Kondor – keyboards (1), keyboard programming (1), arrangements (1), additional keyboards (7)
- Joe Mardin – additional keyboards (1), cymbals (1), hi-hat (1)
- Steve Skinner – additional keyboards (1), keyboards (5, 7), programming (5, 7), arrangements (5, 7)
- Scott Alspach – keyboards (2), programming (2)
- Jud Friedman – keyboards (2), programming (2), string arrangements (2)
- Robbie Buchanan – keyboards (3, 9, 10), arrangements (9)
- Claude Gaudette – keyboards (4, 6), orchestra programming and arrangements (4)
- Tom Salisbury – acoustic piano (6), backing vocals (6)
- Michael Lang – acoustic piano (8)
- John Putnam – guitars (1, 7)
- Teddy Castellucci – guitars (2)
- Tim Pierce – guitars (3, 10)
- Peter Hume – guitars (6), backing vocals (6)
- Dennis Budimir – guitars (8)
- Michael Landau – guitars (9)
- Will Lee – bass (1, 7)
- Cliff Hugo – bass (6)
- Chuck Berghofer – bass (8)
- Neil Stubenhaus – bass (9)
- Bob Harsen – drums (3, 10)
- Carlos Vega – drums (4, 6)
- Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (8, 9)
- Brian Kilgore – percussion (2)
- Efrain Toro – percussion (6)
- Roger Rosenberg – baritone saxophone (1)
- Andy Snitzer – tenor saxophone (1)
- Danny Wilensky – alto saxophone (5)
- Doug Norwine – saxophone (6)
- Gary Foster – clarinet (8)
- Charles Loper – trombone (8)
- Jimmy Hynes – trumpet (1)
- Frank Szabo – trumpet (8)
- Melissa Hasin – cello (7)
- Jimbo Ross – viola (7)
- Margaret Wooten – violin (7)
- Richard Greene – violin solo (7)
- Arif Mardin – arrangements (1, 7-9), string arrangements (7), orchestration (9)
- David Campbell – string arrangements (2)
- Gene Orloff – concertmaster (9)
- Johnny Mandel – string arrangements (10)
- Christopher Tate – choir master (1, 3)
- Deborah A. Alexander, Beverly Dangerfield, Ettamaria Ellis, Warren Harrington, Dewayne C. Knox, Charles May and Linda T. Willis – backing vocals (1, 3)
- Jerry Barnes – additional backing vocals (1)
- Katreese Barnes – additional backing vocals (1)
- Rachele Cappelli – additional backing vocals (1)
- Sue Holder – backing vocals (6)
- Carolyn Willis – backing vocals (6)
- Peggi Blu – backing vocals (9)
- Ollie Cregget – backing vocals (9)
- Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals (9)
- Phillip Ingram – backing vocals (9)
- Witnley Phipps – vocals (10)
Production
- Michael Lippman – executive producer, management
- Arif Mardin – executive producer, producer (1, 5, 7-9)
- Jud Friedman – producer (2)
- Ron Nevison – producer (3, 4, 10), engineer (3, 4, 10)
- Melissa Manchester – producer (6)
- Michael O'Reilly – engineer (1, 5, 7, 8), remixing (1, 5, 7-9)
- Taavi Mote – engineer (2), remixing (2)
- Chris Lord-Alge – remixing (3, 4, 10)
- Jeremy Smith – additional engineer (5), engineer (6, 9), remixing (6)
- Corey Baker – assistant engineer
- Greg Barrett – assistant engineer
- Shawn Berman – assistant engineer
- Brian Broadwater – assistant engineer
- Bruce Buchanan – assistant engineer
- John Jackson – assistant engineer
- Rail Rogut – assistant engineer
- Brian Soucy – assistant engineer
- Andy Udoff – assistant engineer
- Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
- Frank DeCaro – production assistant
- Lisa Maldonado – production assistant
- Deandra Vallier – production assistant
- Melanie Nissen – art direction
- Richard Bates – design
- Donald May – design
- Glen Earler – photography
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