Promise Me the Moon

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Promise Me the Moon
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Studio album by
The David Sanborn Band
ReleasedDecember 1977 (1977-12)
Studio Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida); A&M Studios (Hollywood, California).
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Dale Oehler
The David Sanborn Band chronology
David Sanborn
(1976)
Promise Me the Moon
(1977)
Heart to Heart
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Promise Me the Moon is an album by The David Sanborn Band, released in December 1977 through Warner Bros. Records and reissued by Wounded Bird Records many years later. The album reached number 27 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Promise Me the Moon" (Danny Kortchmar) - 3:58
  2. "Benjamin" (James Taylor) - 1:29
  3. "Stranger's Arms" (Kortchmar) - 4:20
  4. "Heart Lake" (Mark Egan) - 5:19
  5. "The Rev" (Hiram Bullock) - 3:54
  6. "We Fool Ourselves" (Bullock) - 5:12
  7. "Morning Salsa" (Herb Bushler, Rosalinda De Leon) - 6:05
  8. "The Legend of Cheops" (Victor Lewis) - 6:34

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 175. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  2. "David Sanborn: Charts & Awards". Allmusic . Retrieved May 14, 2011.