Not Too Late (Norah Jones song)

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"Not Too Late"
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Single by Norah Jones
from the album Not Too Late
ReleasedFebruary 13, 2007
Recorded2005-06
Length3:31
Label Blue Note
Songwriter(s) Norah Jones, Lee Alexander
Norah Jones singles chronology
"Thinking About You"
(2006/2007)
"Not Too Late"
(2007)
"Sinkin' Soon"
(2007)

"Not Too Late" is a song written by Norah Jones and Lee Alexander, and is a single from Jones's third solo album, Not Too Late (2007). It was released as a radio single in Taiwan in early 2007 (see 2007 in music). [1]

"Not Too Late" was one of the last songs to be recorded for the album. Jones wrote most of the lyrics and the music around early 2005, and Alexander helped her finish it near the end of the recording of the album. [2]

Notes

  1. "International Album Chart" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine . ICRT. February 10 February 16, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2007.
  2. "Norah Jones - Not Too Late / Thinking Of You". ilikemusic.com. Retrieved January 26, 2007.


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