Robert Palmer – Don’t Explain
(EMI Records 1990 EMDX1018)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1/A1/B1 – UK Pressing
Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(1 tiny vinyl defect in the middle of Mess Around but it’s not audible)
Sleeve in Nr MINT- conditiion
– a little light rubbing
Inner Sleeves in Nr MINT condition
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. Over his four-decade career, Palmer is perhaps best known for the song “Addicted to Love” and its accompanying video, which came to “epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s”.
Don’t Explain is the tenth solo studio album by English singer Robert Palmer, released in 1990. During the course of its 18 tracks, Palmer displays rock, R&B, jazz and reggae influences. Several classic songs are covered, as well. The album peaked at number 9 in the UK and number 88 in the US.
Track listing
Track listing
- “Your Mother Should Have Told You” (Robert Palmer, Guy Pratt) – 3:41
- “Light-Years” (Divinyls, Robert Palmer) – 4:27
- “You Can’t Get Enough of a Good Thing” (Robert Palmer) – 4:08
- “Dreams to Remember” (Otis Redding, Zelda Reading, Joe Rock) – 4:25
- “You’re Amazing” (Stephen Fellows, Alan Mansfield, Robert Palmer, Guy Pratt, Steve Stevens) – 3:49
- “Mess Around” (Stephen Fellows, Robert Palmer) – 4:50
- “Happiness” (Robert Palmer) – 2:52
- “History” (Robert Palmer) – 4:32
- “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”; with UB40 (Bob Dylan) – 3:26
- “Housework” (Stephen Fellows, Robert Palmer) – 3:12
- “Mercy Mercy Me” (Marvin Gaye) / “I Want You” (Arthur “T-Boy” Ross, Leon Ware) – 5:59
- “Don’t Explain” (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) – 2:28
- “Aeroplane” (Robert Palmer) – 3:04
- “People Will Say We’re in Love” (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein) – 2:20
- “Not a Word” (Robert Palmer, Guy Pratt, Colin Vearncombe) – 4:18
- “Top 40” (Mose Allison) – 2:40
- “You’re So Desirable” (Ray Noble) – 2:24
- “You’re My Thrill” (Sidney Clare, Jay Gorney) – 3:58
Personnel
- Robert Palmer – vocals, backing vocals, guitars, drums
- Brent Bourgeois – keyboards, backing vocals (2, 3)
- Alan Mansfield – keyboards, drums
- William Bryant – acoustic piano, bass
- Dennis Budimir – guitars
- Alan Darby – guitars
- Eddie Martinez – guitars
- Saverio Porciello – guitars
- Steve Stevens – guitars
- Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
- Frank Blair – bass
- Guy Pratt – bass
- Dony Wynn – drums, percussion
- Cyro Baptista – percussion
- Pino Pischetola – percussion
- Claudio Pascoli – saxophone
- Chuck Findley – flugelhorn, trumpet
- Demo Morselli – trumpet
- Luka Belak – violin
- Clare Fischer – clarinet, string and horn arrangements, conductor
- Gerald Vinci – concertmaster
- B.J. Nelson – backing vocals (2-4)
- Pamela Starks – backing vocals (9)
- UB40 – backing vocals (9)
Production
- David Harper – executive producer
- Robert Palmer – producer (1-6, 9, 10, 17), co-producer (7, 8, 11, 13)
- Teo Macero – producer (7, 8, 11-16, 18)
- Arne Frager – engineer
- Pino Pischetola – engineer
- Mike Fraser – mixing (1, 5)
- Eric “ET” Thorngren – mixing (2-4, 6-18)
- Richard Cobble – production coordination
- Henry Marquez – art direction, design
- Timothy Greenfield-Sanders – photography
- David King – stylist
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