The Day After Yesterday

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Onetime working-class dog Rick Springfield has kept his nose to the grindstone since his early-80s "Jessie's Girl"/"General Hospital"/Tiger Beat-centerfold heyday. It seems as though he's realized he's making as big of a dent in the national consciousness as former co-stars Luke and Laura. Thus The Day After Yesterday, a disc of covers that, despite Springfield's raspy best efforts, communicates a certain last-ditch desperation. "I wanted to see if it would be easier and less painful doing a CD of songs I hadn't written ... and it was," Springfield writes in the album's liner notes. The trouble is, that ease devolved audibly into disillusionment: his song choices couldn't be less interesting and his delivery lacks soul, if not grit. Longtime fans, however, may want to soldier on. Springfield's reading of Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" may be snoozy, but the original wasn't exactly a thrill ride either. The same goes for Human League's pleasantly humdrum "Human." In a split second of boldness, Springfield closes the disc with a palatable, clear-eyed cover of "Imagine." It's a song about possibilities, and mixed with a healthy shot of inspiration, its message should serve the artist better next go-round. --Tammy La Gorce

About the Artist
The Day After Yesterday, being released on, July 12, 2005 (Gomer/DKE Records), is an album of 13 covers that have influenced Rick Springfield throughout his career, and one original song. "I've always wanted to record these songs" Rick Springfield says. "They have been favorites of mine for a long time. They are songs I wish I'd written. I wanted to be faithful to the originals but still treat them a little differently and also give them the benefit of the new technology. Plus, I wanted to see if it would be easier and less painful doing a CD of songs I hadn't written...and it was."

Tracks include I'm Not In Love (10cc), Under The Milky Way (The Church), Life In A Northern Town (Dream Academy), Broken Wings (Mister Mister), Human (Human League), Holding On To Yesterday (Ambrosia), Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty), Waiting For A Girl Like You (Foreigner), Let's Go Out Tonight (Blue Nile), For No One (Beatles), Miss You Nights (Westlife), Blue Rose (Lizz Wright), Cry (Rick Springfield) and Imagine (John Lennon)

On April 26, 2005, Sony/BMG released Written in Rock, Rick Springfield Anthology, a 2-Disc set, spanning Rick Springfield's entire career. "I consider these songs to be the highlights of my past albums and they definitively represent the different eras of my songwriting." - Rick Springfield.

Rick Springfield has withstood the test of time far better than most critics would ever have imagined, writing and performing some of the best-crafted mainstream power pop of the past 20 years. A musician turned actor turned musician, Rick formed a band in high school, and eventually joined the group Rock House which toured Vietnam in 1968. A much sought after lead guitarist in his native Australia, he moved on from Rock House to join the popular band The Zoot in 1970. Springfield went solo after Zoot's breakup and garnered his first U.S. success the following year with a re-recording of his Australian hit "Speak to the Sky" (Capitol, 1972, #14).

After stints with both Columbia (1973) and Chelsea Records (1976), Rick was able to secure a recording contract with RCA on the strength of his demos; in the midst of recording his debut for the label, he was signed to play the young, eligible Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital in 1981. Springfield's popularity skyrocketed, setting the stage for the release of Working Class Dog later that year. Powered by the classic chart topping single "Jessie's Girl," (RCA, 1981, # 1) and the Top Ten follow-up "I've Done Everything for You," (RCA, 1981, #8) Working Class Dog was a smash success, and Springfield eventually returned to his first love- music- when concerts conflicted with his television career.

The follow-up album, Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet, was released in 1982, spawning the Top Five smash "Don't Talk to Strangers" (RCA, 1982, #2); 1983's Living in Oz offered more of the same, including the Top Ten "Affair of the Heart." (RCA, 1983, #9) as well as "Human Touch" (RCA, 1983, #18) When Springfield made the leap to the big screen in 1984 with Hard to Hold, the soundtrack had another Top Five hit, "Love Somebody." (RCA, 1984, #5) Hitting the Top 40 a total of 17 times, Rick has continued to record several more albums during his career, including Tao (1985), Rock Of Life (1988), Sahara Snow (1997, with Tim Pierce and Bob Marlette), Karma (1998) Greatest Hits Alive (2001)and the critically acclaimed Shock Denial Anger Acceptance (2004).

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The Day After Yesterday

Average customer rating: Love to listen to it Rick shows he can do Sexy as well as Rock Great Job! Great Addition to my Rick Springfield collection Rick at his "best yet"..

The Day After Yesterday Rick Springfield Manufacturer: Gomer Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Australia & New Zealand | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Bubblegum | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Written In Rock: The Rick Springfield Anthology Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance Hard To Hold Live in Rockford Rick Springfield - The Beat of the Live Drum ASIN: B0009S87EY Release Date: 2005-07-12

Tracks:

1. I'm Not In Love
2. Under the Milky Way
3. Life In A Northern Town
4. Broken Wings
5. Human
6. Holding Onto Yesterday
7. Baker Street
8. Waiting For A Girl Like You
9. Lets go Out Tonight
10. For No One
11. Miss You Nights
12. Blue Rose
13. Cry
14. Imagine

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Onetime working-class dog Rick Springfield has kept his nose to the grindstone since his early-80s "Jessie's Girl"/"General Hospital"/Tiger Beat-centerfold heyday. It seems as though he's realized he's making as big of a dent in the national consciousness as former co-stars Luke and Laura. Thus The Day After Yesterday, a disc of covers that, despite Springfield's raspy best efforts, communicates a certain last-ditch desperation. "I wanted to see if it would be easier and less painful doing a CD of songs I hadn't written ... and it was," Springfield writes in the album's liner notes. The trouble is, that ease devolved audibly into disillusionment: his song choices couldn't be less interesting and his delivery lacks soul, if not grit. Longtime fans, however, may want to soldier on. Springfield's reading of Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" may be snoozy, but the original wasn't exactly a thrill ride either. The same goes for Human League's pleasantly humdrum "Human." In a split second of boldness, Springfield closes the disc with a palatable, clear-eyed cover of "Imagine." It's a song about possibilities, and mixed with a healthy shot of inspiration, its message should serve the artist better next go-round. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

Love to listen to it.......2007-03-13

This is so different than any other Rick Springfield cd. I loved the way he sounds.

Rick shows he can do Sexy as well as Rock.......2007-03-02

Give this guy a break, he hasn't gone soft or easy listening. This albumn is a just what a woman needs to chill.
Turn down the lights, open a bottle of wine/beer put on this CD and grab the one you love (that is if Rick has other plans for the evening)

This is definately one of his sexier compliations, he puts his own spin on each song and makes it special, I hope he does more like it. You can't get enough of his deep, sexy, voice.
Rick truly rocks
xxx

Great Job!.......2006-07-30

Though I'm still waiting for a cd w/ all-Rick-penned songs, I really enjoy this cd. I like all of the covers. I especially like "I'm Not In Love," "Holding on to Yesterday," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Let's Go Out Tonight" & "Miss You Nights." But my fave from this cd is the only "new" song & the only one writen by Rick, "Cry."

Take care & God bless...
~Rox

Great Addition to my Rick Springfield collection.......2006-04-03

I am a huge Rick Springfield fan. So this CD is a really nice change for me. They are all songs that I already know. It is great to hear his renditions of these songs. It is also nice to know that these are some of his favorite songs as well. He ROCKS!

Rick at his "best yet".........2006-01-22

great covers..
I liked these tunes when they first came around but rick just "does it better" .
I understand that if it werent for the originals we wouldnt hear rick singing them..
rick just rocks and still has what he always did .. talent..
love it love it..
great job Mr. Springfield!!

Average customer rating: Great classic! Tenors on Tour - Versatile and Beautiful

Tenors on Tour Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Operas | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Operas | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Soundtracks | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tenors Anyone?: Great Tenors Sing Pop Favorites Romantic Tenors Tenors Valentine The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 The Three Tenors Christmas ASIN: B0000029VG Release Date: 1997-03-04

Tracks:

1. Blue Moon - Moon River
2. Besame Mucho
3. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
4. Love is a Many Splendored-Thing
5. Maria
6. Yesterday
7. Autunm Leaves
8. Over the Rainbow
9. Giants In the Sky
10. Sometimes A Day Goes By
11. Time After Time
12. Some Enchanted Evening
13. This Nearly Was Mine
14. Ave Maria
15. Wiegenlied (Lullaby)
16. The Long and Winding Road
17. Bridge Over Troubled Water
18. O Sole Mio
19. Torna a Surriento
20. Mamma
21. Lolita
22. Chitarra Romana
23. Nessun Dorma

Customer Reviews:

Great classic!.......2003-03-25

This is a great compilation with the best tenors ever!Try this CD!

Tenors on Tour - Versatile and Beautiful.......2001-06-20

Tenors on Tour is a CD which will live forever. The opening songs by Placido Domingo, His arrangement of Blue Moon and Moon River, set the tone for the CD. To hear Richard Tucker do "Climb every Mountain" was a wonderful trip down memory lane. Who will ever forget him? Placido continues with Broadway..Maria from West Side Story and a Beatles song "Yesterday". Mandy Patinkin's "Over the Rainbow" is classic and wonderful! But in my opinion Jose Carreras has the most "goose bumping" production on the entire CD. His Ave (Maria) is so beautifully done it may just bring tears to your eyes. The "King" Pavarotti is the "clean-up Hitter with selections from LaBoheme,and he does "O Sole Mio" as only He can do it. This CD is a treat for anyone who enjoys fine music. You will play it over and over again.

Average customer rating:

Songs of Yesterday for Today Manufacturer: Romeo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Duke, Vernon | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Easy Listening | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007OP0YA Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

1. By Strauss
2. So in Love
3. Alone Together
4. I'm Old Fashioned
5. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
6. Man I Love
7. Way You Look Today
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Lucky to Be Me
11. How Deep Is the Ocean?
12. But Beautiful
13. You're Nearer
14. Come Rain or Come Shine
15. Nearness of You
16. After You
17. There Will Never Be Another You
18. Shadow of Your Smile
19. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
20. You Don't Know What Love Is

Average customer rating:

Day After Yesterday ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FGG6RK Release Date: 2006-05-02

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The Day After Yesterday Rick Springfield Manufacturer: Jvc Victor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Australia & New Zealand | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Bubblegum | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BM6KJ2 Release Date: 2005-11-28

Tracks:

1. I'm Not in Love
2. Under the Milky Way
3. Life in a Northern Town
4. Broken Wings - Richard Page, Rick Springfield
5. Human
6. Holding on to Yesterday
7. Baker Street
8. Waiting for a Girl Like You
9. Let's Go Out Tonight
10. For No One
11. Miss You Nights
12. Blue Rose
13. Cry
14. Imagine

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the 2005 album features the 14 original tracks plus a bonus track 'Love is the Answer'. Victor. 2005.

Album Details

Cover Versions of 60-90s Pop/Rock Hits.

Average customer rating: Save your Money and get the Ben Bagley Recordings

Rarities Manufacturer: Original Cast Record ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000AYL2L Release Date: 2003-08-26

Tracks:

1. Good Fellow Mine [From the Girl Friend]
2. Little Birdie Told Me So [From Peggy-Ann]
3. I'd Rather Be Right [From I'd Rather Be Right]
4. As Though You Were There [From Unused]
5. You're What I Need [From She's My Baby]
6. My Man Is on the Make [From Heads Up!]
7. April Fool [From the Garrick Gaieties]
8. Rhythm of the Day [From Dancing Lady]
9. I Love You More Than Yesterday [From Lady Fingers]
10. Face the Facts [From Unused]
11. Me for You [From Heads Up!]
12. You Are So Lovely and I'm So Lonely [From Something Gay]
13. Little Flat Near Soho [From Lido Lady]
14. Ever-Ready Freddie [From Unused]
15. What's the Use of Talking [From the Garrick Gaieties]
16. My Lucky Star [From "One Dam Thing After Another"]

Customer Reviews:

Save your Money and get the Ben Bagley Recordings.......2005-10-03

Sounds like it was done in somebody's basement with only a computer for an "orchestra". One song sounds exactly the same as the next. Obviously, as a "rarities", there are few well known songs here, even to a an R&H geek like myself, but once heard, all are quickly forgotten. Stick to the 5 (and counting?) Ben Bagley recordings of Rodgers and Hart, where they put their heart into the recordings and provide (unlike this set, zero documentation), historical background about the songs and a bit about whey they never saw the light of day.

I did not do one star, only to keep encouraging people to mine the Great American Songbook for more lost treasures. However, as any prospector would tell you, some times things don't "pan out".

Average customer rating:

The Day After Yesterday KRITICAL KONTACT ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RC36SO

Product Description

1 State Of The Union Address 2 Guess Who's Back 3 Let Me Be 4 1.L.2.L. 5 Next Best Thing 6 Rise 7 Reporting The Truth 8 Reality Check 9 Land Of The Free 10 Union Of The State Address 11 Anger Release 12 Out Of This World 13 The Anthem 14 I'm A Drug 15 The Bottom Line 16 Crash Course 17 Address State Of The Union 18 Outro Accapella

Average customer rating:

Time Will Make You Mine Manufacturer: World Eater Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9X24 Release Date: 2002-10-01

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