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You Gotta Love The Life is an album by the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Melissa Manchester in 2015. Her 20th studio album, and her first since When I Look Down That Road (2004), the fourteen-track album is primarily written by Melissa, with four tracks being covers of well-known standards, and includes a longer version of the 2013, single release of, "Be My Baby", celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Ronettes' release of the song.
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| dbo:abstract | You Gotta Love The Life is an album by the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Melissa Manchester in 2015. Her 20th studio album, and her first since When I Look Down That Road (2004), the fourteen-track album is primarily written by Melissa, with four tracks being covers of well-known standards, and includes a longer version of the 2013, single release of, "Be My Baby", celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Ronettes' release of the song. You Gotta Love The Life features duets with Al Jarreau and Dionne Warwick with feature instrumentals provided by Keb' Mo', guitars on "Feelin' for You", Joe Sample plays keyboards on "Other End of the Phone", Dave Koz' saxophone on "Claudia" and Stevie Wonder plays harmonica on "Your Love is Where I Live". Melissa, an adjunct professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, was encouraged by her students to make the indie album, they informed her of the availability of crowdfunding opportunities, and in August 2013, Indiegogo was chosen for the album's fundraising platform. The first acknowledgements from the album-insert, thank Melissa's long-time manager, Sue Holder and former student, Barry Harris for spearheading and managing the Indiegogo campaign. A shortened version of "Be My Baby" was released in August 2013, to kickoff the crowdfunding campaign; the first single release in connection with the album debut was, "Feelin' for You", written by Melissa Manchester and Sara Niemietz. The song was inspired by a drunk in a juke joint; when his advances were rebuffed by Melissa, he said, "Too bad, cause I got a feelin' for you." "Feelin' for You" was pre-released as a single on January 9, 2015, includes a solo by Keb' Mo', and premiered at #2 on the Smooth jazz charts. A second single, "Big Light", featuring Al Jarreau, with an accompanying music video was released to radio on June 15, 2015. yYou You Gotta Love the Life was released on February 10, 2015, and hit #17 on the Billboard Magazine Jazz Albums chart for the week of February 28, 2015. * It has been noted that the song, "Other End of the Phone", featuring Dionne Warwick, contains the final lyrics published by Hal David and is one of Joe Sample's final recordings. (en) |
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| dbp:note | full version (en) featuring Al Jarreau (en) Bonus: available exclusively on the full album (en) featuring Dave Koz -saxophone (en) featuring Dionne Warwick and Joe Sample (en) featuring Keb' Mo' – guitar (en) featuring Stevie Wonder -harmonica (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | You Gotta Love The Life is an album by the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Melissa Manchester in 2015. Her 20th studio album, and her first since When I Look Down That Road (2004), the fourteen-track album is primarily written by Melissa, with four tracks being covers of well-known standards, and includes a longer version of the 2013, single release of, "Be My Baby", celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Ronettes' release of the song. (en) |
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