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Night Rains
''Night Rains'' is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian, released in 1979 on Columbia Records. The commercial failure of her previous self-titled album and its accompanying singles led Columbia to demand Ian make a major change of direction for ''Night Rains'' to restore her commercial fortunes. She initially focused on writing film music for ''Foxes'' and '' The Bell Jar'', and then adopted a fully commercial pop sound, collaborating with Albert Hammond of " It Never Rains in Southern California" fame on one song and with superstar disco producer Giorgio Moroder on two tracks including the ''Foxes'' theme. E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons played on two songs and jazz pianist Chick Corea on "Jenny (Iowa Sunrise)". Consequent upon its release alongside twenty-four other Columbia Records albums in the fall of 1979, ''Night Rains'' was effectively un-promoted by the label in the United States and became Ian's first to not dent the ''Billboard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child, Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her seventh studio album ''Between the Lines (Janis Ian album), Between the Lines'', which in September 1975 reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, ''Society's Child'', with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories. Ian is a columnist and science fiction author. Early life Born in Farmingdale, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
