Classic Moments
Classic Moments is an album recorded and released in 2005 by Patti LaBelle, her second full-length release with Island Def Jam's Def Soul Classics imprint.
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Released | 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2004-2005 | |||
Genre | Contemporary R&B | |||
Length | 58:37 | |||
Label | Def Soul Classics | |||
Producer | Patti LaBelle; Babyface, Gregg Pagani, Daryl Simmons; Michael Bearden, Sheldon Goode, Sami McKinney; Tomi | |||
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Overview
The album features LaBelle's renditions of modern pop, soul and R&B songs, mostly ballads, including her versions of "Love Don't Live Here Anymore", "She's Out of My Life" (re titled "He's Out of My Life"), "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" and "I'll Stand by You". Released a year after her previous album, Timeless Journey, it peaked at number 24 on the pop albums chart and number five on the R&B albums chart, while her version of Aretha and Carolyn Franklin's "Ain't No Way", a duet with Mary J. Blige, entered the R&B charts peaking at number sixty-eight. By the end of the year the album went gold with sales shipping past the 500,000 mark.
Track listing
- "Ain't No Way" (Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin) - (4:29)
- "He's Out of My Life" (Tom Bahler) - (3:46)
- "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" (Thom Bell, William Hart) - (4:32)
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Miles Gregory) - (3:56)
- "I Keep Forgetting" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Michael McDonald) - (3:16)
- "Love Ballad" (Skip Scarborough) - (4:00)
- "I Can't Make You Love Me" (Allen Shamblin, Mike Reid) - (6:02)
- "Your Song" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) (5:23)
- "I'll Write a Song for You" (Al McKay, Philip Bailey, Steve Beckmeier) - (5:23)
- "Silly" (Clarence McDonald, Deniece Williams, Fritz Baskett) - (5:12)
- "I'll Stand by You" (Chrissie Hynde, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) - (4:24)
- "You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) - (4:57)
- "Land of the Living" (Kristine Weitz, Rob Dougan, Roland Armstrong) - (5:17)