Michael Bolton - Time, Love & Tenderness (1991)

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Artist: Michael Bolton
Title: Time, Love & Tenderness
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: Columbia #CK 46771
Genre: Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:44:50
Total Size: 431 / 223 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Time, Love & Tenderness is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Michael Bolton. The album was released on April 23, 1991 by Columbia Records; it was produced by Walter Afanasieff and Michael Bolton. The album topped the Billboard 200 chart and produced four Top 40 singles: a cover of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" reached No. 4, "Time, Love and Tenderness" reached No. 7, and "Missing You Now" reached No. 12. All four singles reached the Top 40 in the UK as well, as did a fifth single released only in the UK, "Steel Bars". This is the only album from Bolton's "hit period" that is out of print, due to legal issues surrounding the song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing." The album has since been released on iTunes and other digital music services, with "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" available as an "album-only" download. After reaching the top spot, the album enjoyed a steady stay on the charts, eventually selling over 8 million copies in the US. Worldwide, the album has sold approximately 16 million copies and is his best-selling album to date.

Michael Bolton cloned his approach from Soul Provider on its follow-up, Time, Love & Tenderness, and sold as many records for his trouble. (That's six million copies.) His key collaborator once again was Diane Warren, who applied her goldplated gift for writing contemporary love songs to six tunes, among them the hits "Time, Love & Tenderness" and "Missing You Now" (which featured saxmeister Kenny G). The obligatory R&B carbon copy was Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," which hit number one. The only unusual songs came at the beginning and the end. The album led off with "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (a Top Ten hit), a song in standard '60s R&B mode that would be the subject of a plagiarism suit from the Isley Brothers, and it concluded with "Steel Bars," co-written by Bolton and...Bob Dylan? That's what it said, and if the song wasn't one of Dylan's best, it at least indicated that Bolton might have possibilities that had so far gone unnoticed.

~ William Ruhlmann, All Music

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Track List:

01. Love Is A Wonderful Thing [0:04:43.40]
02. Time, Love And Tenderness [0:05:31.22]
03. Michael Bolton & Kenny G / Missing You Now [0:04:33.30]
04. Forever Isn't Long Enough [0:04:32.43]
05. Now That I Found You [0:04:32.47]
06. When A Man Loves A Woman [0:03:52.08]
07. Michael Bolton & Patti LaBelle / We're Not Makin' Love Anymore [0:04:41.25]
08. New Love [0:04:32.25]
09. Save Me [0:04:21.65]
10. Steel Bars [0:03:28.70]

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