“Please, don’t let this feeling end…” The sentiment of that
famous lyric is one shared by listeners every time Melissa Manchester begins to
sing. From her earliest pop hits through her recent triumphs on the jazz
charts, Manchester’s voice has always resonated with warmth and power. In 1975,
she was one of a handful of select talents chosen by Clive Davis to inaugurate
his Arista Records label, and during her near-decade on the label, the fiercely
independent artist established herself as both a singer and songwriter.
Inspired by the trailblazing Laura Nyro, the onetime student of Paul Simon
scored a crossover smash with the beautifully intimate “Midnight Blue,”
established such songs as “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and the Oscar-nominated “Theme
from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love)” as standards, and reinvented
herself as a contemporary dance diva with the Grammy-winning “You Should Hear
How She Talks About You.” All of those songs and many more—including over fifteen
chart hits—can be heard on Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records’ Through the
Eyes of Love—The Complete Arista 7” Singles Collection.
This landmark release
brings together every one of Manchester’s Arista 45 RPM releases, all in their
original single versions featuring 23 unique single mixes/edits, for a total of
43 tracks on two discs. These timeless recordings fusing pop, rock, soul,
R&B, new wave, dance, jazz, and plenty of heart have been newly remastered
from the original tapes by Mike Piacentini at Sony’s Battery Studios, and
present Melissa’s hits on CD as they were first heard on the radio between 1975
and 1984. Through the Eyes of Love boasts several worldwide CD premieres such
as the single version of “My Boyfriend’s Back” (heard as part of a medley in
its album version), and as a special bonus, the extended 12-inch mix of “You
Should Hear How She Talks About You;” Joe Marchese of The Second Disc provides
new liner notes based on an exclusive interview with Melissa herself. Clocking
in at 157 minutes, Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7” Singles is
the most comprehensive Melissa Manchester anthology ever, and reveals just why
she became the cherished voice of a generation.
Disc : 1
1. Midnight Blue
2. I Got Eyes
3. Just Too Many People
4. This Lady's Not Home
5. Just You and I
6. My Sweet Thing
7. Better Days
8. Sing, Sing, Sing
9. Rescue Me
10. Happy Endings
11. Monkey See, Monkey Do
12. So's My Old Man
13. Be Somebody
14. Dirty Work
15. I Wanna Be Where You Are
16. No One's Ever Seen This Side of Me
17. Don't Cry Out Loud (Single Version)
18. We Had This Time
19. Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love)
20. Such a Morning
21. Pretty Girls
22. Fire in the Morning
Disc : 2
1. It's All in the Sky Above
2. Lights of Dawn
3. If This Is Love
4. Talk
5. Without You
6. Boys in the Backroom
7. Lovers After All
8. Happier Than I've Ever Been
9. Race to the End (Theme from "Chariots of Fire")
10. Long Goodbyes
11. You Should Hear How She Talks About You
12. Hey Ricky (You're a Low-Down Heel)
13. Come In from the Rain
14. Nice Girls
15. My Boyfriend's Back
16. Looking for the Perfect Aah
17. No One Can Love You More Than Me
18. White Rose
19. I Don't Care What the People Say
20. Emergency
21. You Should Hear How She Talks About You
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