''Rise and Fall '' is the debut full-length album by

Tim Halperin Tim Halperin (born May 27, 1987, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American singer-songwriter. A piano player and vocalist, in 2007 he began performing and recording, and in 2010 his track "We Fight Back" became the theme song for Susan G. Komen for th ...

, released on September 27, 2011. It reached No. 1 on the

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Singer-Songwriter Chart, and debuted at No. 14 on the

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Production

Halperin had started work on the album over a year earlier, only to put the release date on hold to fulfill his ''Idol'' contract. He spent much of 2010 working on the recordings with producer Jordan Critz (The Fray, Third Eye Blind and Lifehouse). According to Halperin, "With this record, because it's my first full-length album, I wanted to make sure that it was the most me. That it had songs on it that I felt like best represented who I am, not only as a songwriter, but as a person."

Release, reception

''Rise and Fall'' was released on September 27, 2011. It rose to No. 1 on the

Singer-Songwriter Chart, and held that position for 4 days. ''Rise and Fall'' also debuted at No. 14 on the

. The CD underwent a second official release on December 6, 2011. The first track on the album, "All You Got," was written for Kidd's Kids, with all proceeds going to the organization.

"The Last Song"

His first single for ''Rise and Fall'' and one of the first tracks recorded for the album, "The Last Song," as of September 26, 2011 was in the top ten on the Singer-Songwriters Songs chart on iTunes. For the music video of "The Last Song" fans donated a budget of $8,000. According to a description of the scenes, "Halperin crawls through his piano, then wanders through a field, drives an old convertible down a suburban road, wanders across a movie set, finds himself at a birthday party and plunges underwater. He eventually winds up in a forest at night, wearing a white suit and coattails as people dance underneath bright lights hanging from trees."

Track listing

References

External links

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