Cool Night

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Cool Night
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 30, 1981
RecordedIn full digital at Web IV Studios (Atlanta, GA); Winter 1980 to early 1981.
Genre Soft rock
Length38:00
Label Arista
Producer Ed Seay and Paul Davis
Paul Davis chronology
Paul Davis
(1980)
Cool Night
(1981)
The Best of Paul Davis
(1982)
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Cool Night is the seventh and final studio album by singer/songwriter Paul Davis. It was his highest-charting album in the United States, reaching #52 on the Billboard album chart, and yielded three top-40 singles, "Cool Night", "'65 Love Affair", and "Love or Let Me Be Lonely". The third was a remake of a song by The Friends of Distinction. This album was the first to be both recorded and mixed fully digitally.[ citation needed ] It features backing vocals by the Commodores who were simultaneously recording their 1981 album In the Pocket .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks were written by Paul Davis except where noted.

  1. "Cool Night" – 3:40
  2. "You Came to Me" (Davis, Joe Wilson, Mike Hughes) – 3:38
  3. "One More Time for the Lonely" – 4:09
  4. "Nathan Jones" (Leonard Caston Jr., Kathy Wakefield) – 3:27
  5. "Oriental Eyes" – 4:28
  6. "'65 Love Affair" – 3:54
  7. "Somebody's Gettin' to You" – 3:30
  8. "Love or Let Me Be Lonely" (Skip Scarborough, Jerry Peters, Anita Poree) – 3:41
  9. "What You Got to Say About Love" (Davis, Doug Bare, Ben Rappa) – 3:53
  10. "We're Still Together" – 3:40

Personnel

Production

Notes

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