I Don't Want to Cry/Any Day Now

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All Music Guide - Jason Ankeny
This two-fer reissues soul belter Chuck Jackson's earliest LPs for the Wand label. A significant cut above the typical filler-stuffed soul collections of the early '60s, I Don't Want to Cry's hit title cut serves as a springboard to explore 11 other tear-stained tunes, forming a concept record detailing the many subtle gradations of melancholy and heartbreak. Pop classics like "Tears on My Pillow," "Lonely Teardrops," and "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" are well matched to Jackson's deep, poignant vocals -- blunt emotional force was always his greatest strength, and rarely was he served by better material, most notably the early Burt Bacharach/Hal David collaboration ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Jason Ankeny
This two-fer reissues soul belter Chuck Jackson's earliest LPs for the Wand label. A significant cut above the typical filler-stuffed soul collections of the early '60s, I Don't Want to Cry's hit title cut serves as a springboard to explore 11 other tear-stained tunes, forming a concept record detailing the many subtle gradations of melancholy and heartbreak. Pop classics like "Tears on My Pillow," "Lonely Teardrops," and "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" are well matched to Jackson's deep, poignant vocals -- blunt emotional force was always his greatest strength, and rarely was he served by better material, most notably the early Burt Bacharach/Hal David collaboration "I Wake Up Crying." Indeed, after Dionne Warwick, Jackson was arguably the premier interpreter of the indelible Bacharach oeuvre, and Any Day Now's title cut remains the apex of their collaboration, its dramatic arrangement and suffocating fatalism proving the perfect showcase for Jackson's richly poignant vocals. The LP also features the wrenching ballad "I Keep Forgetting," but on the whole it's wildly uneven, fleshing out the hits with pedestrian filler. The singer invests even the weakest material, like "Angel of Angels," with startling emotion, but more often than not his rescue attempts fall short.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 11/20/1995
  • Label: Kent Records Uk
  • UPC: 029667210720
  • Catalog Number: 107
  • Sales rank: 101,460

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Chuck Jackson Primary Artist
Technical Credits
Frankie Laine Composer
Chuck Jackson Composer
Carole King Composer
Freddie Green Composer
Abe Lyman Composer
Burt Bacharach Composer
Lincoln Chase Composer
Gerry Goffin Composer
Jerry Leiber Composer
Van McCoy Composer
Evan Rogers Composer
Gus Arnheim Composer
Tyran Carlo Composer
Hal David Composer
L.D. Dixon Composer
Arthur Freed Composer
Norman Gimbel Composer
Berry Gordy Jr. Composer
Bob Hilliard Composer
Al Lewis Composer
Mike Stoller Composer
Peter Udell Composer
Luther Dixon Composer
Gary Geld Composer
Sylvester Bradford Composer
Willie Denson Composer
J. Michael Greene Composer
Joe Greene Composer
Irving Reid Composer
Gwendolyn B. Gordy Composer
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