HARRY CONNICK JR – WE ARE IN LOVE LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 1990 JAZZ

Harry Connick Jr – We Are In Love
(CBS Records  1990  4667361)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1

Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some slight wear to edges/corners
Inner Sleeve & Insert in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, conductor, pianist, actor, composer, and television music competition judge. He has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has seven top-20 US albums, and ten number-1 US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in the US jazz chart history.

Connick’s best selling album in the United States is his 1993 Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas, which also is one of the best selling Christmas albums in the United States. His highest charting album, is his 2004 release Only You which reached No. 5 in the U.S. and No. 6 in Britain. He has won three Grammy awards and two Emmy Awards. He played Grace’s husband, Dr. Leo Markus, on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.

Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film, Memphis Belle, in 1990. He played a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, before being cast as jet fighter pilot in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. Connick’s first role as a leading man was in 1998’s Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock. His first thriller film since Copycat came in 2003 in the film Basic with John Travolta. Additionally, he played the violent ex-husband in Bug, before two romantic comedies, 2007’s P.S. I Love You, and the leading man in New in Town with Renée Zellweger in 2009. In 2011, he appeared in the family film Dolphin Tale as Dr. Clay Haskett and in the 2014 sequel, Dolphin Tale 2.

We Are in Love is an album by American artist Harry Connick, Jr., released in 1990. The multi-platinum album features Connick on piano & vocal, Russell Malone on guitar, Shannon Powell on drums, Benjamin Jonah Wolfe on double bass, and Branford Marsalis on saxophone. Joining the quartet is Connick’s Big Band. Most of the tracks include an orchestral background.

Released in 1990, it topped the jazz charts in the same year, and crossed over to the pop charts as well, selling over 2 million copies worldwide. The album gave Connick a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male, and he performed the title track live on the Grammy telecast in 1991. “Recipe for Love” also became one of Connick’s biggest hits, peaking at #32 in the UK Singles Chart on re-release (the original release had only peaked at #86).

The album was released the same day as his trio instrumental album Lofty’s Roach Souffle, and his home video debut entitled Singin’ & Swingin’.

Track listing

1. “We Are in Love” – 2:40
2. “Only ‘Cause I Don’t Have You” – 4:22
3. “Recipe for Love” – 2:34
4. “Drifting” (Marc Shaiman) – 5:14
5. “Forever, for Now” – 4:20
6. “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 5:09
7. “Heavenly” – 1:59
8. “Just a Boy” – 6:05
9. “I’ve Got a Great Idea” – 4:21
10. “I’ll Dream of You Again” – 3:33
11. “It’s All Right with Me” (Cole Porter) – 4:53
12. “Buried in Blue” – 6:55

All songs written by Harry Connick, Jr. and Ramsey McLean, except “We Are in Love”, “Recipe for Love”, “I’ve Got a Great Idea”, and “I’ll Dream of You Again” by Connick. All other writers noted.

Recorded at Evergreen Radford Studio, North Hollywood, California on March 7–9 & 12–15, 1990 and RCA Studio B, New York, New York on April 19 & 23 and May 1, 1990.

Musicians

• Harry Connick Jr. – Piano, vocals
• Branford Marsalis – Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax
• Russell Malone – Guitar
• Benjamin Jonah Wolfe – Bass
• Shannon Powell – drums