...In Black & White

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In Black & White
Barbara Mandrell-In Black and White.jpg
Studio album by
Barbara Mandrell
ReleasedApril 30, 1982
Recorded Nashville, TN (January 1982)
Genre Country pop
Length34:30
Label MCA
Producer Tom Collins
Barbara Mandrell chronology
Barbara Mandrell Live
(1981)		In Black & White
(1982)		 He Set My Life to Music
(1982)
Singles from ...In Black & White
  1. "'Till You're Gone"
    Released: April 12, 1982
  2. "Operator, Long Distance Please"
    Released: August 16, 1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
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...In Black & White is the eleventh solo studio album by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. The album was released in April 1982 on MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It was Barbara Mandrell's first studio album in two years since the release of Love Is Fair .

Contents

Background and content

...In Black & White was recorded in January 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee, and consisted of 10 tracks of new material. Greg Adams of AllMusic compared the fourth track, "Till You're Gone" to Ronnie Milsap's number-one country single "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)", saying that the track anticipated the "oily nostalgia...with its classic doo wop chord progression." The album mainly contained country pop-influenced ballads such as "Till You're Gone". Adams gave the album three out five stars, calling the album "uneven" in parts. He stated, "The album is marred by synthetic production and uneven material, particularly with regard to the preponderance of generic ballads that aren't rooted in any particular genre of music. Unless you're a completist, enjoy "Till You're Gone" on a greatest-hits collection and skip the rest." [2]

...In Black & White was released on an LP album, with five songs on each side of the record.

Release

...In Black & White spawned two singles during the course of 1982. The lead single "'Till You're Gone" was released in April 1982 and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, while also reaching number 25 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. "'Till You're Gone" peaked also at number three on the Canadian RPM country chart. The second and final single "Operator, Long Distance Please" was released in August 1982 and reached number 9 on Billboard's country singles chart and on Canada's RPM Country Tracks chart. [3] The album was issued in 1982 and reached number seven on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #153 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. [4]

Track listing

Side One
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Operator, Long Distance Please" Dennis Morgan, Kye Fleming 3:36
2."You're Not Supposed to Be Here" Kent Robbins 2:51
3."Rolling Stone"Don Pfrimmer, Gary Harrison 3:38
4."Till You're Gone"Tom Brasfield, Walt Aldridge 2:57
5."Some Things Never Change"Morgan, Fleming3:43
Side Two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Black and White" (with Gene Miller)Morgan, Fleming3:38
2."Gettin' Over a Man"Clydene Jackson, Morgan Ames3:19
3."Dreams Don't Lie"Morgan, Fleming3:41
4."Why Am I Still in Love"Harrison, Gene Miller, Robbins2:43
5."The Thrill Is Gone"Lew Brown, Ray Henderson4:24

Personnel

Charts

Singles

YearSongChart positions
US Country US AC CAN Country
1982"'Till You're Gone"1253
"Operator, Long Distance Please"9—9
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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References

  1. ↑ "In Black and White> Overview". AllMusic . Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  2. ↑ Adams, Greg. "In Black and White > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Barbara Mandrell > Charts and awards (singles)". Allmusic. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Barbara Mandrell charts & awards > albums". Allmusic. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Barbara Mandrell Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Barbara Mandrell Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1982". Billboard. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
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