Night - Night 1979 (USA, Pop-Rock, Melodic Rock / AOR)
Their debut album (from 2) group from Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California). The group was founded in 1978 mainly by experienced British musicians. Vocalist Stevie Lange (Stevie Lange, born Stevie van Kerken) was born in Southern Rhodesia (South Africa), was married to fellow countryman Robert John "Mutt" Lange (Robert John "Mutt" Lange), together they moved to England and formed the band Hocus. .. Then Matt was a great producer, he is called "Mr. superuspeh", "invisible genius," worked with Def Leppard, AC / DC, The Boomtown Rats, Outlaws, Foreigner, Bryan Adams, Nickelback, Maroon 5, Shania Twain (who became his second wife), Lady GaGa ... Vocalist / guitarist in the group of Night was Chris Thompson (Chris Thompson), who worked in groups of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (all involved in 9 albums pre-and post-), ??Jeff Wayne, Elton John and dozens of groups ... Before the Night Stevie Lange and Chris Thompson have worked together in a group of Bones. Another guitarist Robbie McIntosh was (Robbie McIntosh), who later worked for The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Paul McCartney (5 albums), The Robbie McIntosh Band ... Keyboardist Nicky Hopkins was the legendary (Nicholas Christian Hopkins), is easier to call the musicians with whom he worked. But still - The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, The Who, The Move, The Jeff Beck Group, Jefferson Airplane, The Steve Miller Band, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Ringo Star, George Harrison, etc. etc. Inspires ... By the way, he was unselfish ... Hopkins almost never received any royalties for his large-scale in-session activity, because every time credited to the state of "employee" and only received a salary. The exception was Quicksilver Messenger Service, and their manager Ron Poltev, turn it into a number of authors and fees ... And he had three solo albums. Night was the producer of Richard Perry (worked with Harry Nilsson, Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Art Garfunkel, Diana Ross, Martha Reeves, The Manhattan Transfer, Leo Sayer, Andy Williams). Their debut album contained the single, which entered the US Top 40 - Hot Summer Nights (# 18), in 1979 there also came another single - If You Remember Me (# 17).
Tracks:
01. Hot Summer Nights (Walter Egan) - 0:00
02. Cold Wind Across My Heart (Tom Snow) - 3:23
03. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody (Rudy Clark) - 7:28
04. Ain't That Peculiar (William Robinson / Warren Moore / Marv Tarpline / Rober Roders) - 11:31
05. Come Around (If You Want Me) (Chris Thompson) - 16:09
06. You Ain't Pretty Enough (Chris Thompson / Billy Kristian / Allee Willis) - 19:13
07. Shocked (Greg Sutton / Ira Ingber) - 23:39
08. Love Message (Bugsy Maugh / Stevie Lange / Chris Thompson) - 27:17
09. Party Shuffle (Robbie McIntosh / Chris Thompson / Billy Kristian) - 31:12
Bonus:
10. If You Remember Me (single A-side, 1979) (Marvin Hamlisch / Carole Bayer Sager) - 35:22
Personnel:
Stevie Lange (Stevie van Kerken, Stevie Vann) - female vocals
Chris Thompson (Christopher Hamlet Thompson) - vocals, guitar (01,03-06,08)
Robbie McIntosh - guitar (01-08), slide guitar (09)
Billy Kristian - bass
Rick Marotta - drums (01-05,07-09)
Nicky Hopkins (Nicholas Christian Hopkins) - piano (01,02,05,07,08), electric piano (03)
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Steve Porcaro - synthesizer (01,02,06)
Bill Payne - synthesizer (02), organ (03,04), piano (06)
Michael McDonald - piano (04), electric piano (06)
Derrek Austin - synthesizer (06), clavinet (06)
Vince Melamed - organ (07-09)
Bobby LaKind - congas (04,06)
James Albert Johnson - drums (06)
Richard Perry - producer, arranger
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