Better Days - Melissa Manchester Rocks You Like A Baby

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Never enough airplay and attention to this woman's beautiful, warm, loving voice. Melissa Manchester was, and continues to be one of my favorite balladeers and rock era singers. Midnight Blue? Sure... but this...it's a universal anthem to lovers.
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"Following the success of Melissa, and particularly its Top Ten single "Midnite Blue," Melissa Manchester reassembled the same team and attempted to replicate the formula. Primarily, that meant more intimate, lushly produced ballads with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and these included "Better Days," essentially a "Midnite Blue" sequel that told what happened the morning after, and "Just You and I," a song with more than a whiff of "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Both those songs, along with a cover of Fontella Bass' "Rescue Me," made the singles charts, though only "Just You and I" cracked the Top 40. The funny thing was that the big ballad follow-up to "Midnite Blue" was right there on the record if anybody at Arista had had the ears to hear it: at the end of side one was Manchester and Sager's "Come in from the Rain," which was turned into a chart single by Captain & Tennille the following year, subsequently covered by numerous artists, and became a pop standard. Even so, Better Days & Happy Endings confirmed that Manchester had abandoned the individual creativity displayed on her second album, Bright Eyes, in favor of the potential mass commerciality glimpsed on Melissa, which meant that she became largely definable in terms of units sold, and by that measure her fourth album was a disappointment." ~ William Ruhlmann
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Click and listen. Her voice could lull a baby to sleep. The song is beautifully crafted, and her singing is heavenly. Please forward this post to all of your treasured music-loving friends. Ask them to listen to the depth of feeling, the reverence, the delicacy. Then start Googling "Melissa Manchester" until somebody wakes up and makes a re-discovery.

Thank you for spreading the word. Click, listen, relax and feel.



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Melissa Manchester - I went to one of your concerts, and understood, for the first time in my young life, what falling in love with a dream could be like. If I've ever loved anyone, they have you to thank for any tenderness that I've been able to offer. Thank you, Melissa. - DAZZ




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