Midnight Blue – Melissa Manchester

Chart Position: 6

• Written by Melissa Manchester and Carole Bayer Sager
• Keyboards: Melissa Manchester, James Newton Howard
• Guitar: David Wolfert
• Backing vocals: Vini Poncia
• Produced by Vini Poncia
• Recorded in New York City NY
• Melissa Manchester is from New York City NY
• Former Beatle George Harrison had planned to release a song also titled ‘Midnight Blue’ on the 1975 LP ‘Extra Texture’ but he changed the song’s title to ‘Tired of Midnight Blue’ to avoid being confused with this song
• This song was written in 1972 and was originally offered to Dusty Springfield, who declined to record it
• Later recorded by Johnny Mathis (1975), Shirley Bassy (1976), Euson (1976), Christy Lane (1978), Arthur Prysock (1978), Viola Wills (1980) and Vanessa Williams (2005)