Cool Night

Cool Night
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 30, 1981
RecordedIn full digital at Web IV Studios (Atlanta, GA); Winter 1980 to early 1981.
GenreSoft rock
Length38:00
LabelArista
ProducerEd Seay and Paul Davis
Paul Davis chronology
Paul Davis
(1980)
Cool Night
(1981)
The Best of Paul Davis
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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. While the album was a commercial success, Davis hated it, so much so that he ended his contract with Arista to sign with a much smaller label, before retiring from the music industry in 1988.

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

  • Paul Davis – vocals, keyboards
  • Doug Bare – keyboards
  • Tommy Cooper – keyboards
  • Ed Seay – keyboards, bass, backing vocals
  • Vance Taylor – keyboards
  • Steve Hardwick – guitars
  • Rick Hinkle – guitars
  • Barry Dunaway – bass
  • Steve Tischer – bass
  • Gene Chrisman – drums
  • Jean T. McHine – drums
  • Benny Rappa – drums, backing vocals
  • Carol Veto – backing vocals

Production

  • Paul Davis – producer
  • Ed Seay – producer, engineer
  • Tommy Cooper – engineer
  • Jim Loyd – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Donn Davenport – art direction
  • Neal Pozner – design
  • Tom Biondo – photography

Notes