Edyie Gorme - Tonight I'll Say a Prayer (1970) Vinyl • A Time For Us

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Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover has scuffing, creases near edges (front/back). Inner sleeve is original (RCA ads), one seams is partially split, same seam is also partially missing at the corner. Spine is mostly easy-to-read with mild-wear (crooked text). Some shelf-wear along the top and bottom-edge. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Tonight I'll Say A Prayer
2. You've Made Me So Very Happy
3. A Time For Us (Love Theme From "Romeo And Juliet")
4. Nice People
5. Quiet Soul
6. It Takes A Fool Like Me
7. Don't We
8. Time
9. Knowing When To Leave
10. Without You
11. Yesterday, When I Was Young

About The Record:

Tonight I'll Say a Prayer by singer Edyie Gorme, peaked at #105 on Billboard 200. She was the wife of Steve Lawrence and cousin of Neil Sedaka. Commenting on the album, Edyie said, "I recorded Tonight I’ll Say A Prayer in November of 1969, or as we refer to it at our house... ‘The Winter of My Discontent’. The rock groups had already made their mark and changed the sound of pop music forever...It was very difficult finding the type of music to which I related and the record company was pressing us to get an album out asap! In a musical mad dash, Don Costa and I released a single of Tonight I’ll Say A Prayer which soared into the top 40 immediately. My prayers were answered! To select the songs for the album, Don and I reached out to all the talented writers we knew...Jimmy Webb, Charles Aznavour, Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, Burt Bachrach and Hal David. In many instances my rendition may not have been the original hit version, but I was pleased with my performance, and I liked the songs. Nick Perito, the brilliant musician and arranger, who wrote the chart for Knowing When to Leave...conducted the orchestra...while Don Costa was in the ‘booth’, producing and arranging all the rest." When she died on AUGUST 10, 2013, Steve Lawrence said of her death, "Eydie has been my partner on stage and in life for more than 55 years. I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and even more the first time I heard her sing. While my personal loss is unimaginable, the world has lost one of The Greatest Pop Vocalists of All Time."