''Closer'' is the tenth album by singer
Melba Moore
Beatrice Melba Smith (born October 29, 1945) known by her stage name Melba Moore, is an American singer and actress.
Biography Early life and education
Moore was born Beatrice Melba Smith on October 29, 1945, in New York City to Gertrude Melba ...
, released in 1980. It was also her final album on
Epic Records
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before moving to
EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...
in 1981.
[Billboard - 6 Sep 1980
THE CLOSER YOU GET THE MOORE YOU LIKE IT! Everyone who heard her last album, "Burn," remembers how hot it can get when you're near Melba. Well, her new album is hotter than that! Featured a McFadden and Whitehead tune, and the single "Everything So Good About You.'Vsows ^ That single is already 73* in Billboard, 91 in ^ Cash Box and 65 in Record World, and it's just warming up. Which means Melba's getting "Closer" and "Closer." To the top! ^ % £^ Melba Moore's ...]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Bruce Hawes, Melba Moore and Victor Carstarphen; except where indicated
#"Everything So Good About You"
#"You Got Me Loving You" (Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Jerry Cohen)
#"Closer"
#"Something On Your Mind"
#"Shame"
#"Never Gonna Let You Get Away" (Clarence Brice, Theodore Robinson)
#"Rest Inside my Love" (Jesse Butler, Lawrence Hanks, Rodney Massey)
#"
I Could Never Miss You More" (Neil Hamilton)
#"Next to You" (Janice Gugliuzza, Phillip T. Pugh)
#"You Don't Know (What You Do to Me)"
References
1980 albums
Melba Moore albums
Epic Records albums
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