''Making Every Moment Count'' is the eighth and final

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n singer-songwriter Peter Allen, released in 1990, two years before his death from an

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-related illness. It was his first album of entirely new material since 1983's " Not the Boy Next Door".

Reviews

William Ruhlmann from

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gave the album 3 out of 5, saying; "There may enods to his past, but otherwise Allen was very up to date on ''Making Every Moment Count'', employing five different producers to come up with a recording that had a timely sound, complete with icy synthesizer riffs and programmed drums coming on like torpedoes.” He added, “he remained most affecting on the ballads, which had a poignancy that would be accentuated by Allen's death from AIDS in 1992.”

Track listing

# "Tonight You Made My Day" (Peter Allen, Seth Swirsky) - 4:12 # "Making Every Moment Count" (with

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) (Peter Allen, Seth Swirsky) - 3:58 # "When I Get My Name in Lights"(with

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) (Peter Allen) - 3:03 # "Nobody Can Break Us Up" ( Michael Jay, Peter Allen) - 4:21 # "I Could Marry the Rain" (Peter Allen) - 3:08 # "See You in the Springtime" (

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, Peter Allen) - 4:08 # "So Much Depends On Love Today" (Peter Allen) - 4:41 # "Why Not?" (Dean Pitchford, Peter Allen) - 3:34 # "I Couldn't Have Done It Without You" (Peter Allen, Seth Swirsky) - 3:46 # "Love Don't Need a Reason" (Marsha Malamet, Michael Callen, Peter Allen) - 3:36

References

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