Wait for Night

Wait for Night
Studio album by Rick Springfield
Released 1976
Genre Pop rock, power pop
Label Chelsea Records
Rick Springfield chronology
Comic Book Heroes
(1973)Comic Book Heroes1973		 Wait for Night
(1976)		 Working Class Dog
(1981)Working Class Dog1981
Singles from Wait for Night
  1. "Take A Hand[1]"
    Released: August 1976
  2. "Million Dollar Face[2]"
    Released: October 1976
  3. "Jessica[3]"
    Released: December 1976
  4. "Treat Me Gently In The Morning[4]"
    Released: April 29, 1977
  5. "Archangel[5]"
    Released: November 1979
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[6]

Wait for Night is an album by Australian singer-songwriter Rick Springfield, originally released by Chelsea Records in 1976. The album was reissued by RCA Records in 1982 (with an enclosed poster from his 1982 "Sweat For Success" tour and an alternate cover that added a handwritten note from Rick and colored paint strokes on the original cover's B&W photo), and that version managed to crack into the Billboard album charts. The album was reissued on CD in 2010 by Wounded Bird Records. Stylistically, the album represented a move away from Springfield's 1970s light rock sound to the trademark arena-ready power pop/pop rock sound that Springfield would later find success with throughout the 1980s. It received a mostly favorable review from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the All Music Guide.[6][7]

Most of the instruments were performed by Rick Springfield himself with exception to drums which has been accredited to Nigel Olsson, a former drummer of Elton John. The album's opener "Take a Hand" would later be included in several 'best of' albums for Springfield,[8] and it continues to a staple of Springfield's live performances.[7]

Track listing

All songs written by Rick Springfield.

  1. Take a Hand
  2. Goldfever
  3. One Broken Heart
  4. Where’s All the Love
  5. Archangel
  6. Jessica
  7. Million Dollar Face
  8. Old Gangsters Never Die
  9. Treat Me Gently in the Morning
  10. Life Is a Celebration

References

  1. ↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/ch3051
  2. ↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/ch3055us
  3. ↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/ch3056x
  4. ↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/chs3053
  5. ↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/zs318
  6. 1 2 Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Wait for Night - Rick Springfield". All Music Guide. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  7. 1 2 "Springfield Re-Releases "Wait For Night"". CBS Radio - 98.7 KLUV. August 10, 2010. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Take a Hand - Rick Springfield". All Music Guide. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
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