Days in Avalon

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Days In Avalon
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 24, 2000
Studio
  • Renegade (Chicago)
  • CRC (Chicago)
  • Hinge (Chicago)
  • Music Grinder (Los Angeles)
  • Capitol (Los Angeles)
  • The Treehouse (Los Angeles)
  • Andorra (Los Angeles)
  • CocoButt (Los Angeles)
  • Woodland (Nashville)
  • Ocean Way (Nashville)
  • Soundstage (Nashville)
  • Sound Kitchen (Franklin)
Genre Adult contemporary, pop rock, country
Length52:34
Label Signal 21
Producer Richard Marx, David Cole
Richard Marx chronology
The Essential Richard Marx
(2000)
Days In Avalon
(2000)
Timeline
(2000)
Singles from Days In Avalon
  1. "Days In Avalon"
    Released: October 2000
  2. "Straight From My Heart"
    Released: May 2001

Days In Avalon is the sixth studio album by singer/songwriter Richard Marx, released independently in 2000 on the now defunct label Signal 21. This was the only release on the label created by Marx and Blood, Sweat, and Tears drummer Bobby Colomby.

Contents

The title track, "Days In Avalon", was the only song within the album to appear on any charts. The song spent twelve weeks on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, [1] peaking at #25. "Straight From My Heart" was later released to country radio but failed to appear on any charts.

It failed to make the main chart but did manage #41 on Billboard's new Independent Albums survey. Per Nielsen SoundScan, this album had sold 32,391 copies at the time of its deletion.

Track listing

  1. "Days In Avalon" (Marx) – 4:54
  2. "Shine" (Marx) – 4:35
  3. "Someone Special" (Marx) – 4:13
  4. "Almost Everything" (Marx, Bruce Gaitsch) – 4:47
  5. "The Edge of Forever" (Duet with Chely Wright) (Marx, Wright) – 4:21
  6. "Power of You and Me" (Marx) – 3:42
  7. "One More Time" (Marx) – 4:26
  8. "Waiting on Your Love" (Marx, Fee Waybill) – 4:27
  9. "More Than a Mystery" (Marx) – 4:19
  10. "Boy Next Door" (Marx) – 4:44
  11. "Too Early to Be Over" (Marx, Waybill) – 3:54
  12. "Straight From My Heart" (Marx) – 4:42

Singles/chart history

YearSong US A.C.
2000 "Days In Avalon"25

Personnel

Production

Miscellaneous

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References

  1. "Richard Marx Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2008-06-08. Retrieved 2008-06-07.