{"id":104441,"date":"2021-06-10T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104441"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:32:21","slug":"melissa-manchesters-new-single-a-reimagined-recording-of-her-classic-hit-fire-in-the-morning-is-out-today-breaking-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104441","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Manchester’s New Single a Reimagined Recording of Her Classic Hit “Fire In The Morning” Is Out Today – Breaking Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fifth single from 24th album RE:VIEW available now<\/p>\n

RE:VIEW album is rolled out as a series of singles<\/p>\n

Steve Dorff \/ Gary Harju \/ Larry Herbstritt song blooms with optimism as the country emerges from pandemic lockdown<\/p>\n

Stream \u201cFire In The Morning\u201d music video<\/p>\n

HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty – it\u2019s a pretty video and it\u2019s a pretty song.\u201d So says GRAMMY\u00ae Award-winning, multi ACADEMY\u00ae Award-nominated singer\/songwriter, Melissa Manchester, about the new remake of her 1980 hit. \u201c\u201cFire In The Morning\u201d is a lovely, mid-tempo ballad and, as we are coming out of this pandemic very slowly, it gave me a chance to not have a pandemic-centric video. The video was about reflection \u2013 and people can watch me struggle writing!\u201d she giggles.<\/p>\n

Originally released on Manchester\u2019s 1975 album, Melissa, which lingered on the Billboard charts for 41 weeks, the classic hit was a slow burn that didn\u2019t reach the Top 100 and Adult Contemporary singles charts until five years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t write this song. It came to me through Clive (Davis, of Arista Records) and the guys, but I know veteran songwriter Steve Dorff,\u201d who co-wrote the song with Gary Harju and Larry Herbstritt.<\/p>\n

For this new version, \u201cI had the opportunity to invite a new generation of young artists – the musicians of Citrus Community College in Glendora, CA (where I\u2019m proud to be the Artist In Residence) – to join me in revisiting and bringing new energy to the song,\u201d Manchester enthuses<\/p>\n

The rhythm section and lead vocals were recorded in the state-of-the-art Citrus College Studios in early 2020, before the campus was shut down due to the worldwide health crisis. When the lockdown was mandated, Manchester realized that she had most of the her 24th studio album, RE:VIEW, \u201cin the can\u201d \u2013 already recorded during the previous several months – so it might be possible to complete the collection remotely, with the aid of audio engineer Ebiut Cervantes, and using an unconventional song-by-song rollout. As 2020 unfolded, \u201cJust You And I\u201d was released, followed by Manchester\u2019s blockbusters \u201cMidnight Blue,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Cry Out Loud,\u201d and the GRAMMY\u00ae Award-winning \u201cYou Should Hear How She Talks About You.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now,\u201d Manchester explains, \u201cI don\u2019t know what those other videos will look like, because we were so in the center of the pandemic earlier. But this one is very pleasant, thanks to videographers Paco Silva and Daniel Henry-Smith, and you get a chance to see me interact with my dear ones \u2026 and sit at the piano a little.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea for the new album project bubbled up in 2019. \u201cThe whole point of RE:VIEW,\u201d explains Manchester, \u201cis that, in these times, as with many of my colleagues, the original record company owns all of the masters, and the only way I can empower myself and own my masters is to re-record these old songs, with a little bit of a tweak, just to make it interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

And why not? The 50-year veteran artist is reminding music lovers who they are, and who they were back in the day. Manchester also reminds the listener of what a great singer she was \u2013 and still is – partly because her voice has deepened and strengthened with maturity and partly because, \u201cYou grow into the songs,\u201d Manchester continues. \u201cYou start to, you know, mess with the harmonics a little bit. So that\u2019s what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A uniquely versatile artist, Manchester composed the score to the hit musical, Sweet Potato Queens, with book by TONY\u00ae Award winner Rupert Holmes and lyrics by Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Sharon Vaughn, based upon the New York Times best selling books of Jill Conner Browne, She also penned the score for the bittersweet I Sent A Letter To My Love, a musical based on the Bernice Rubens novel, with book and lyrics by playwright Jeffrey Sweet.<\/p>\n

In 1980, Melissa Manchester became the first recording artist in the history of the ACADEMY\u00ae Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year – \u201cThrough The Eyes Of Love\u201d from Ice Castles and \u201cI\u2019ll Never Say Goodbye\u201d from The Promise – and to perform them both on the Oscar telecast. Manchester starred in the national tours of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s Music Of The Night and Song And Dance, and she created the role of Maddy, the title character\u2019s mother, on the NBC hit TV series Blossom.<\/p>\n

With nineteen Billboard\u00ae charted hits to choose from, it\u2019s been a happy challenge to pick ten for the new album. \u201cFire In The Morning\u201d made the cut because it\u2019s one of the most requested by Manchester\u2019s followers. \u201cA fan favorite. It\u2019s one of the nicest ways I could think of to say thank you to my amazing fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFire In The Morning\u201d is available now:<\/p>\n

SoundCloud HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

YouTube HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

iTunes HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fifth single from 24th album RE:VIEW available now RE:VIEW album is rolled out as a series of singles Steve Dorff \/ Gary Harju \/ Larry Herbstritt song blooms with optimism as the country emerges from pandemic lockdown Stream \u201cFire In The Morning\u201d music video HERE \u201cIt\u2019s pretty – it\u2019s a pretty video and it\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26752],"class_list":["post-104441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-melissa-manchesters-new-single-a-reimagined-recording-of-her-classic-hit-fire-in-the-morning-is-out-today-breaking-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104441"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}