Romance in the Night is a soft rock

Soft rock

Soft rock is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock music to compose a softer, more toned-down sound. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes...

 album of mostly covers

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 by José Feliciano

José Feliciano

José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...

. It was released on the Motown label in 1983. The track "Let’s Find Each Other Tonight” (a Feliciano original) was his first single to make the Country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 charts and was played by the same José Feliciano live on the 1996 movie Fargo

Fargo (film)

Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...

by the Coen brothers

Coen Brothers

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 .

Track listing

Side One:

1. ”Lonely Teardrops
   Lonely Teardrops
   "Lonely Teardrops" is a song recorded and released as a single in 1958 by R&B singer Jackie Wilson on the Brunswick label. It is a 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee...
   
   ” (Berry Gordy
   Berry Gordy
   Berry Gordy, Jr. is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries.-Early years:...
   
   , Tyran Carlo, Gwendolyn Gordy
   Gwen Gordy Fuqua
   Gwen Gordy Fuqua was the elder sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, sister of Motown songwriters Anna Gordy Gaye, Robert Gordy and George Gordy, sister of Motown Museum founder Esther Gordy Edwards, sister of Fuller Gordy and also Loucye Gordy, and the former wife of Harvey Fuqua...
   
   ) 4:20
2. ”If You Have a Heart” (José Feliciano) 3:25
3. ”Taking it All in Stride” (Tom Snow
   Tom Snow (songwriter)
   Thomas Righter Snow is an American songwriter.He wrote songs for Joe Cocker with , Selena , Olivia Newton-John , Melissa Manchester , The Pointer Sisters , Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge Thomas Righter Snow is an American songwriter.He wrote songs for Joe Cocker ("Even a Fool Would Let Go", "Love...
   
   ) 4:13
4. ”Let’s Find Each Other Tonight” (José Feliciano) 3:45
5. ”One Night
   One Night (song)
   "One Night" is a song popularized by Elvis Presley. It was issued as a double A-side with "I Got Stung". The single reached number one twice on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S., "One Night", reached number four on the pop singles chart and number ten on the R&B chart...
   
   ” (Dave Bartholomew
   Dave Bartholomew
   Dave Bartholomew is a musician, band leader, composer and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century...
   
   , Pearl King) 2:51

Side Two:

1. ”So Into You” (Robert Nix, Dean Daughtry
   Dean Daughtry
   Dean Daughtry is an American musician. He was the keyboard player with the Classics IV after Joe Wilson departed. They had a 1968 #3 US/#46 UK hit with 'Spooky'. He joined the Atlanta Rhythm Section as keyboardist in 1971. They had a #5 US hit in 1977 with "So in to You".-References:...
   
   , Buddy Buie
   Buddy Buie
   Buddy Buie is a songwriter, producer, and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison, The Classics IV and The Atlanta Rhythm Section.-Biography:...
   
   ) 4:05
2. ”Play Me
   Play Me
   "Play Me" is a 1972 song by Neil Diamond from his album Moods. The song, the first single from Moods, was recorded in February 1972 in Los Angeles. It was released as a single in May 1972 and peaked at #11 in the United States in September of that year...
   
   ” (Neil Diamond
   Neil Diamond
   Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
   
   ) 4:18
3. ”I Feel Fine
   I Feel Fine
   "I Feel Fine" is a riff-driven rock song written by John Lennon and released in 1964 by The Beatles as the A-side of their eighth British single. The song is notable for the use of feedback on a recording for the first time by any musician...
   
   ” (John Lennon
   John Lennon
   John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
   
   , Paul McCartney
   Paul McCartney
   Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
   
   ) 3:18
4. ”¡Cuidado!” (instrumental) (José Feliciano, David Witham) 4:13
5. ”Romance in the Night” (José Feliciano) 5:48

Production Credits

Produced by Rick Jarrard

Rick Jarrard

Rick Jarrard was a staff producer for RCA Records during the 1960s. Artists he worked with included Jose Feliciano, The Family Tree, Harry Nilsson, Stone Country, The Loading Zone and Jefferson Airplane. In the earlier part of that decade, Jarrard was a member of the Greenwood County Singers, a...

 & José Feliciano

Arranged by José Feliciano & Rick Jarrard

Rick Jarrard

Rick Jarrard was a staff producer for RCA Records during the 1960s. Artists he worked with included Jose Feliciano, The Family Tree, Harry Nilsson, Stone Country, The Loading Zone and Jefferson Airplane. In the earlier part of that decade, Jarrard was a member of the Greenwood County Singers, a...

Recording engineers: Dick Bogert & Ellis Sorkin

Mixing engineer: Dick Bogert

Mastering engineer: Bernie Grudman



Art Direction: Johnny Lee

Design: Terry Taylor

Photography: Ron Slenzak

Ron Slenzak

Ron Slenzak is an American photographer, best known for photographing record album covers. Some of the album covers that he has photographed include Spitfire , Huey Lewis and the News , It Must Be Magic , Dreams and Throwin' Down .-Biography:Slenzak...