Won't Change Places

Won't Change Places
Studio album by Marti Webb
Released January 1981
Recorded 1980
Genre Pop, MOR
Label Polydor
Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Marti Webb chronology
Tell Me on a Sunday
(1980)Tell Me on a Sunday1980		 Won't Change Places
(1981)		 I'm Not That Kind of Girl
(1983)I'm Not That Kind of Girl 1983

Won't Change Places is an album by Marti Webb released in 1981 as a follow-up to Tell Me on a Sunday.

As with her previous album, the recording was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Polydor label. It included a recording of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina from the musical Evita in which Webb was at the time appearing as Eva Perón.

The album featured the singles "Your Ears Should Be Burning Now" and "I've Been in Love Too Long". The album itself was released in early 1981. Of these, only the lead single "Your Ears Should Be Burning Now" was a chart hit.[1] A few months later, another single was released by Webb titled "Unexpected Song", which was not featured on this album.[2] Webb had her own BBC Two special called Won't Change Places, where she performed some of the songs on this album. It was broadcast on 16 February 1981.[3][4]

The album was released two years later in the US (Polydor 2442-186) and The Americna trade magazine Stereo Review reviewed it in May 1983 under the section "Recording of Special Merit", mentioning "All I Am", "Masquerade", "I've Been in Love Too Long" and "Don't" as stand out tracks.[5]

In 2015, Lloyd Webber reused the melody of "I've Been in Love Too Long" as the opening track of School of Rock, "I'm Too Hot for You", albeit with different lyrics.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "I Won't Change Places" (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black)
  2. "All I Am" (Lynsey de Paul)
  3. "Your Ears Should Be Burning Now" (Tony Macaulay, Don Black)
  4. "Angry and Sore" (Rod Argent)
  5. "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Side Two

  1. "I've Been in Love Too Long" (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black)
  2. "What You Gonna Do With Your Freedom" (Lynsey de Paul, Susan Sheridan)
  3. "Don't" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  4. "Masquerade" (Rod Argent)
  5. "I Guess I'll Miss the Man" (Stephen Schwartz)

Personnel

Executive Producer, Producer (Side One, Track 1; Side Two, Tracks 1, 3 and 5), Arranger (Side Two, Track 1), Orchestration (Side One: Track 5), Cover Concept - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Producer (Side One, Track 2; Side Two, Track 2) - Lynsey de Paul

Producer (Side One, Track 3) - Tony Macaulay

Producer (Side One, Track 4; Side Two, Track 4) - Rod Argent

Arranger (Side One, Track 1; Side Two, Track 5) - Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Cullen

Arranger (Side One, Track 2; Side Two, Track 2) - Lynsey de Paul and Susan Sheridan

References

  1. ↑ "Chartstats.com Is For Sale". Chartstats.com. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". Ultratop.be. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Won't Change Places (1981)". Bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "TV Pop Diaries 1981". Tvpopdiaries.co.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Stereo Review, May 1983, review by Peter Reilly, p. 90
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