Half the Perfect World

Half the Perfect World
Studio album by Madeleine Peyroux
Released September 12, 2006 (2006-09-12)
Recorded April 2006
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 48:56
Label Rounder/Universal
Producer Larry Klein
Madeleine Peyroux chronology
Careless Love
(2004)Careless Love2004		 Half the Perfect World
(2006)		 Bare Bones
(2009)Bare Bones2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
ARTISTdirect.com[2]
Being There Magazine[3]
The Guardian[4]
JazzPolice.com(NR)[5]
Mojo[6]
musicOMH.com[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
inthenews.co.uk[9]

Half the Perfect World is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It was released on September 12, 2006. It peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and had sold 218,000 copies in the United States by December 2008.[10]

The album contains four original songs, all of them co-written by Peyroux, and cover versions of songs by Johnny Mercer, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Charlie Chaplin, Serge Gainsbourg, and Leonard Cohen.[1] "I'm All Right," "A Little Bit" and "Once in a While" were released as singles.

David Dye listed the album at number 10 on World Cafe's list of the top 10 CDs of 2006.[11]

Track listing

  1. "I'm All Right" (Walter Becker/Peyroux/Larry Klein) – 3:27
  2. "The Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke/Henry Mayer/Johnny Mercer) – 3:55
  3. "Blue Alert" (Leonard Cohen/Anjani Thomas) – 4:10
  4. "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 5:10
  5. "River" featuring k.d. lang (Joni Mitchell) – 5:19
  6. "A Little Bit" (Jesse Harris/Klein/Peyroux) – 4:02
  7. "Once in a While" (Harris/Klein/Peyroux) – 4:00
  8. "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) – 3:27
  9. "Half the Perfect World" (Cohen/Thomas) – 4:21
  10. "La Javanaise" (Serge Gainsbourg) – 4:11
  11. "California Rain" (Harris/Klein/Peyroux) – 2:57
  12. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin/Geoffrey Parsons/John Turner) – 3:57

Personnel

Certifications

Country Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Brazil Gold[12]
New Zealand 1× Gold[13]
United Kingdom Gold[14]

References

  1. 1 2 Brown, Marisa. "Half the Perfect World". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Hermann, Andy. "Half the Perfect World by Madeleine Peyroux". Artist Direct. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Being There Magazine review Archived October 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Fordham, John (27 October 2006). "Madeleine Peyroux, Half the Perfect World". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  5. ↑ JazzPolice.com review Archived October 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Snow, Mat (November 2006). "NY State of Mind: Madeleine Peyroux Half the Perfect World". Mojo: 104.
  7. ↑ musicOMH.com review
  8. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  9. ↑ inthenews.co.uk review
  10. ↑ Cohen, Jonathan (1 December 2008). "Peyroux Goes 'Bare' On New Album". Billboard. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  11. ↑ Dye, David (December 4, 2006). "World Cafe's Top 10 CDs of 2006". NPR.
  12. ↑ "Certificados (Searchable Database): Madeleine Peyroux – Half the Perfect World" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos. 2008. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Latest Gold / Platinum Albums". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. RadioScope New Zealand. November 23, 2008. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011.
  14. ↑ "BPI Certified Awards (Searchable Database – By Award – Gold): MADELEINE PEYROUX – HALF THE PERFECT WORLD". British Phonographic Industry. December 8, 2006.
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