| Product Summary | | Label: Sony/epic | | UPC: 00074646608968 | | Please Note: May require SACD-compatible hardware more info. | | Release Date: 1/16/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60462536 | | Item#: M25JTY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2010 | Format:  Super Audio CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Everytime I Close My Eyes - (with Kenny G) ~ Babyface (R&B) |  | | 2. Talk To Me - (with Eric Clapton) ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 3. I Said I Love You ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 4. When Your Body Gets Weak ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 5. Simple Days ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 6. All Day Thinkin' ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 7. Seven Seas ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 8. Day, The (You Gave Me A Son) ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 9. How Come, How Long - (with Stevie Wonder) ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 10. This Is For The Lover In You - (with LL Cool J/Howard Hewett/Jody Watley/Jeffrey Daniels) ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 11. Every Time I Close My Eyes - (Timbaland remix) ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 12. Everytime I Feel The Groove - (Urban Soul Basement mix, previously unreleased) ~ Babyface (R&B) | | | 13. This Is For The Lover In You - (Honey Lookin' Laced extended remix) ~ Babyface (R&B) | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an enhanced CD which contains multimedia computer files as well as regular audio tracks. | | Personnel includes: Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, programming); Stevie Wonder (vocals, harmonica); LL Cool J (rap vocals); Eric Clapton (guitar); Ray Brown, Oscar Brashear (trumpet); Reggie Young (trombone); Gerald Albright (tenor saxophone); Kenny G (saxophone); Greg Phillinganes (piano); Sheila E. (percussion); Bryce Wilson (programming); Mariah Carey, Jody Watley, Marc Nelson, De De O'Neal, Shanice Wilson, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman, Kenny Terry, Howard Hewett (background vocals). | | Producer: Babyface. | | Reissue producer: Leo Sacks. | | Recorded at the Tracken Place, Beverly Hills, California and The Record Plant, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by J.R. Reynolds. | | Digitally remastered by Joseph Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). | | THE DAY was nominated for 1998 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "Every Time I Close My Eyes" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. "How Come, How Long" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. | | This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. | | Personnel includes: Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, programming); Stevie Wonder (vocals, harmonica); LL Cool J (rap vocals); Eric Clapton (guitar); Ray Brown, Oscar Brashear (trumpet); Reggie Young (trombone); Gerald Albright (tenor saxophone); Kenny G (saxophone); Greg Phillinganes (piano); Sheila E. (percussion); Bryce Wilson (drum programming); Mariah Carey, Jody Watley, Marc Nelson, De De O'Neal, Shanice Wilson, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman, Kenny Terry, Howard Hewett (background vocals). | | Recorded at the Tracken Place, Beverly Hills, California and The Record Plant, Hollywood, California. | | THE DAY was nominated for 1998 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "Every Time I Close My Eyes" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. "How Come, How Long" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. | | This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. | | The Day was the first album Babyface released after being elevated into a virtually guaranteed hitmaker in the mid-'90s through his work with Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, Madonna, and Mariah Carey, among many others. The album confirms his skill for subtle, inventive songwriting and accessible, polished yet soulful production. Babyface can straddle the line between hip-hop and traditional soul better than nearly any other artist, as evidenced by the hits he has orchestrated for other artists. On his own, he is still compelling -- his voice is as smooth as silk, and nearly as seductive -- but it doesn't quite have the force of personality as his greatest productions. Nevertheless, The Day qualifies as state-of-the-art mid-'90s soul, featuring a handful of terrific songs, and a lot of extremely pleasurable filler. [The 2001 CD reissue adds historical liner notes and three bonus tracks: remixes of "Everytime I Close My Eyes," "This Is For the Lover in You," and "Everytime I Feel the Groove," the last of which was previously unreleased and not found on the original album in any form.] ~ Leo Stanley | | Equally talented as a singer, songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist, Babyface has done more than anyone to shape the face of modern R&B, writing and producing for a variety of artists and inspiring a league of imitators who pale in comparison to the original. On THE DAY, his first solo album since 1993's FOR THE COOL IN YOU, he makes it plain that there ain't nothing like the real thing. | | Babyface is capable of conjuring many moods, but his forte is the slow, sensual ballad. On the opening "Everytime I Close My Eyes," he envelops the listener in a slinky, simmering world where an undertow of subtle drum loops and mellow synthesizer washes pulls you down into the heart of the song. ("Everytime" features pop-jazz saxophonist Kenny G, who released the song simultaneously on his album THE MOMENT). While much of THE DAY is preoccupied with the eternal pop topic of romance, Babyface shifts gears on "Simple Days," a reflective tune that finds him recalling his poor-but-happy childhood with a wistful longing. LL Cool J and Jody Watley guest on the closing tour de force, "This Is For The Lover In You." |
Engineer: Brad Gilderman; Thom Russo |
Musical Guests | | Eric Clapton | | Stevie Wonder | | Mariah Carey | | Bryce Wilson | | Sheila E. | | LL Cool J | | Kenny G | | Jody Watley | | Howard Hewett |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 01/16/2001 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 66089 | | Label : Legacy Recordings | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 46m : 12s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00074646608968 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (12/96, p.147)
- "...relies on cameos from Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder and a reunited Shalamar. Plus Kenny G, which works in this upside-down, fascinating pop sphere..."Entertainment Weekly (11/1/96, p.68)
- "...All the Babyface trademarks--the crisp, unobtrusive percussion, the silky guitars, the harmonies that blanket the melodies like a quilt--are laid out like a three-piece suit. But more so than any previous album he's made, THE DAY is chockful of luscious, gently persuasive songs..." - Rating: A- Vibe (3/01, p.192)
- 3.5 discs out of 5 - "...Inthe hurly-burly of today's music scene, it's getting a lot easier to appreciate the charms of this quiet man..." |
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