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Big Girls Don't Cry (The Weather Girls album)

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Critical reception
Track listing
Personnel
References
External links

{{Infobox album
| name = Big Girls Don't Cry
| type = album
| artist = The Weather Girls
| cover = File:Weather Girls - Big Girls Don't Cry.jpeg
| alt =
| released = 1985
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Soul|pop soul|dance}}
| length = {{Duration|m=32|s=25}}
| label = Columbia
| producer = {{hlist|Hank Medress|Jeff Kent}}
| prev_title = Success
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Megatonnage
| next_year = 1985
}}Big Girls Don't Cry is an album by American music duo The Weather Girls, released in 1985. Being the group's final album on Columbia Records,^[1] it turned to influences from 1960's sounds. Nevertheless, it was less successful than its predecessor, Success (1983).^[1]

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}^[2]
| rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev2score = B^[3]
}}

Writing for AllMusic, Ron Wynn gave a mixed review to the record, describing the songs on it as "formula pop-soul and dance filler." Wynn also stated that group "never really were allowed to showcase their real personalities or styles."^[2] Music critic Robert Christgau thought that the duo "takes it one step further and make soul a cartoon, with the title cut the masterstroke." Christgau further commented: "They'll cop material anywhere--debut single's from Jesse Winchester. And if at first their tricks seem inspired, by the time you get to Creedence and Neil Sedaka they're beginning to sound obvious."^[3]

Track listing

"Lock Me Up" (Doug James, Michael Bolton) – 4:16
"Big Girls Don't Cry" (Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio) – 3:25
"Well-A-Wiggy" (Jesse Winchester) – 4:31
"No One Can Love You More Than Me" (Terry Britten, Billy Livsey) – 4:55
"Down on the Corner" (John Fogerty) – 3:56
"March" (Peter Zizzo) – 3:39
"Laughter in the Rain" (Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody) – 3:15
"You Can Do It" (Evie Sands, Richard Germinaro, Ben Weisman) – 4:28

Personnel

The Weather Girls

Izora Armstead - lead vocals
Martha Wash - lead vocals

Musicians

Elliott Randall, Georg Wadenius, Scott Zito - electric guitar
Elliott Randall, Jesse Winchester - acoustic guitar
David Sanborn - alto saxophone
Gregg Mangiafico - synthesizer programming
Leon Pendarvis – acoustic piano, drum and synthesizer programming, arrangements
Sammy Merendino - drum programming
Jimmy Maelen - additional percussion
Carl Hall, Izora Armstead, Martha Wash, Ula Hedwig - backing vocals

Technical

Joe Venneri – audio engineering, associate producer, mixing
Jeff Kent – producer, mixing
Hank Medress – producer
Charles Koppelman – executive producer
John Berg - art direction
Gary Heery - photography

References

1. ^{{cite book | title=Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music | publisher=Cengage Gale | author=Pilchak, ANgela | year=2005 | pages=193 | isbn=0787680656}}
2. ^¹²{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/big-girls-dont-cry-mw0000874206 | title=The Weather Girls - Big Girls Don't Cry | publisher=AllMusic | accessdate=August 8, 2016 | author=Wynn, Ron}}
3. ^¹{{cite web | url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Weather+Girls | title=The Weather Girls | publisher=robertchristgau.com | author=Christgau, Robert | accessdate=August 9, 2016}}

External links

{{Discogs master|104485|type=album|Big Girls Don't Cry}}

5 : 1985 albums|Columbia Records albums|Albums produced by Charles Koppelman|Soul albums by American artists|Dance music albums by American artists

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