I Don't Want to Cry/Any Day Now

by Chuck Jackson

Overview

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. ~ Jason Ankeny

Product Details

Release Date:	11/20/1995
Label:	Kent
UPC:	0029667210720
Rank:	119400

Tracks

1. I Don't Want to Cry
2. Tears on My Pillow
3. My Willow Tree
4. In Between Tears
5. Tear of the Year
6. I Cried for You
7. Lonely Teardrops
8. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
9. Salty Tears
10. I Wake Up Crying
11. A Tear
12. A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry
13. I Keep Forgettin'
14. Any Day Now
15. Just Once
16. The Same Old Story
17. Watcha' Gonna Say Tomorrow
18. Make the Night a Little Longer
19. Who's Gonna Pick Up the Pieces
20. In Real Life
21. Angel of Angels
22. The Breaking Point
23. The Prophet
24. Everybody Needs Love

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chuck Jackson   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

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