Smile

2001

Marti Pellow live singing

Track List

  1. Hard to Cry
  2. Close to You
  3. Did You Ever Wake Up?
  4. All I Ever Wanted
  5. I've Been Around the World
  6. This Moment is OK
  7. New York Vibe
  8. London Life
  9. Moment of Truth
  10. She Can Lean on Me
  11. The Missing Sound
  12. Memphis Moonlight

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Smile

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From the Album

Lyrics

Words

Time was never on our side
Beauty reaches for the light
From the shadow of your smile
Into my heart
There's a flower in my field you know
Holding love up like a shield
Now I know we have it sealed
Here in my heart

Every night I turn the lights down
Slowly
And watch you in your afterglow

I want to get close to you
Tell me you want me too
What can I do?
I need you now
And I want you now
In my life

Where the stream begins to flow
A life of love that springs we know
From every word
Into my soul

Treasure buried deep inside
Turns the hands of love way back in time
Leaving all the past behind
Can we let it go?

Every night I turn the lights down
Slowly
And watch you in your afterglow

I want to get close to you
Tell me you want me too
What can I do?
I need you now
And I want you now
In my life

We've been holding on
For things to change
The fear is gone
We've turned the page
In our book of love

And to know this love
Is to hold it all
From high above and
Feel the flow of your love
My love

I want to get close to you
Tell me you want me too
What can I do?
I need you now
And I want you now
In my life

I want to get close to you
Tell me you want me too
I want to get close to you
I want to get close to you

Credits

The Team

Smile (Mercury Records 2001)

For Marti’s first solo album away from Wet Wet Wet he teamed up with the great British songsmith, lead singer from Squeeze and friend, Chris Difford; and the legendary American soul producer Willie Mitchell – the hero of every soul record he’d grown up with and the man he’d gone to to make the very first Wet Wet Wet recordings, The Memphis Sessions. So in a sense he was coming home with this record and with the first single “Close To You” entering the Top 10 in the UK charts, this sublime and deeply passionate album, mixing witty pop with Memphis soul, went a long way to reassure his loyal fans.

Musicians:

Guitar: Paul Inder
Guitar & Keyboards: James Hallawell
Guitar: Alan Darby
Guitar: Andy White
Bass: Steve Walters
Bass: Leroy Hodges
Bass: John McKenzie
Drums: Carlos Hercules
Drums: Andy Newmark
Percussion: Marti Ditchum
Hammond: Lester Snell
Trombone: Jack Hale
Baritone sax: James Mitchell
Tenor sax: Jim Spake & Lannie McMillan
Tenor sax: Andrew Love
Trumpet: Scott Thompson
Background Vocals: Sam Brown, Jackie Johnson & Vanessa Thomas

Horns Arranged by: Lester Snell & Marti Pellow
String Conductor: Alaster Gavin
Strings Arranged by: Marti Pellow

Produced by: Marti Pellow, Willie Mitchell & Peter Collins
Mixed & Engineered by : Phil Brown

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