I Don't Want to Cry!
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{{Infobox album
| name = I Don't Want to Cry
| type = Album
| artist = Chuck Jackson
| cover = I Don't Want to Cry!.jpeg
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| released = 1961
| recorded = Fall 1960 (title song November 1960)
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| label = Wand{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsnYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT348|title=An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians - Benjamin Franklin V - Google Books}}
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| next_title = Any Day Now
| next_year = 1962
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{{music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
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|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |page=526}}
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I Don't Want to Cry! is Chuck Jackson's debut studio album, released in 1961. The album is completely devoted to songs about crying.
Jackson co-wrote the title track. It became a Top 40 Pop hit and a Top 5 R&B hit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chuck-jackson/chart-history/hsi/|title=Chuck Jackson|website=Billboard}}
The album's design and photography was by Jules Maidoff.
Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that the "hit title cut serves as a springboard to explore 11 other tear-stained tunes, forming a concept record detailing the many subtle gradations of melancholy and heartbreak."
Track listing
=Side 1=
- "I Don't Want to Cry" (Luther Dixon, Chuck Jackson)
- "Tears on My Pillow" (Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford)
- "My Willow Tree" (Bob Elgin, Kay Rogers)
- "In Between Tears" (Bob Elgin, Kay Rogers, Luther Dixon)
- "Tear of the Year" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell)
- "I Cried for You" (Abe Lyman, Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim)
=Side 2=
- "Lonely Teardrops" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Tryan Carlo)
- "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (Joe Greene)
- "Salty Tears" (Lincoln Chase)
- "I Wake Up Crying" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
- "A Tear" (Luther Dixon, Willie Denson)
- "A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry" (Frankie Laine, Irving Reid, Norman Gimbel)
References
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See also
- [http://www.discogs.com/Chuck-Jackson-I-Dont-Want-To-Cry/release/4566871 I Don't Want to Cry!] on Discogs
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