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Half the Perfect World is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It was released on September 12, 2006. It peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and had sold 218,000 copies in the United States by December 2008.[1]
The album featured a total of four original songs, all of them co-written by Peyroux: "I'm Alright", "All I Need is a Little Bit", "Once in a While" and "California Rain". This marked a change in Peyroux's style, who would, in March 2009, release her first album without any covers.
Peyroux did a cover of Summer Wind, a song by Johnny Mercer, whom she always credits as major influence on her music.She also recorded three covers (only two on the standard edition, but there was a bonus track, "Crazy To Love You", on the Japanese one) of Leonard Cohen's and Anjani Thomas album Blue Alert.
Track listing
- "I'm All Right" (Walter Becker, Madeleine Peyroux, Larry Klein) – 3:27
- "The Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer, Johnny Mercer) – 3:55
- "Blue Alert" (Leonard Cohen, Anjani Thomas) – 4:10
- "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 5:10
- "River" featuring k.d. lang (Joni Mitchell) – 5:19
- "All I Need is a Little Bit" – 4:02
- "Once in a While" – 4:00
- "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) – 3:27
- "Half the Perfect World" (Leonard Cohen, Anjani Thomas) – 4:21
- "La Javanaise" (Serge Gainsbourg) – 4:11
- "California Rain" – 2:57
- "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 3:57
Singles, Promotion and Publicity
"I'm All Right", "All I Need is a Little Bit" and "Once in a While" were all released as singles. The song, "Blue Alert", can be heard on the 2007 Old Navy Denim Jeans commercial.
Chart performance
Half The Perfect World was the highest peak (#33) on Madeleine Peyroux's career. It finished #9 on the Jazz Albums year-end.[citation needed]
David Dye of World Cafe listed the album at number 10 on World Cafe's list of the Top 10 CDs of 2006.[2]
Certifications
| Land | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|
| Brasilien | Gold[3] |
| Neuseeland | 1× Gold[4] |
| Vereinigtes Königreich | Gold[5] |
Personnel
- Madeleine Peyroux — vocals, acoustic guitar
- Dean Parks — guitars
- David Piltch — bass
- Jay Bellerose — drums, percussion
- Scott Amendola — drums
- Sam Yahel — keyboards
plus
- Gary Foster — saxophone
- Greg Leisz — pedal steel
- Till Bronner — trumpet
- Larry Goldings — celeste
References
- ^ Cohen, Jonathan (December 1, 2008). "Peyroux Goes 'Bare' On New Album". Billboard. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
- ^ Dye, David (December 4, 2006). "World Cafe's Top 10 CDs of 2006". NPR.
- ^ "Certificados (Searchable Database): Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos. 2008.
- ^ "Latest Gold / Platinum Albums". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. RadioScope New Zealand. November 23, 2008.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - ^ "BPI Certified Awards (Searchable Database - By Award - Gold): MADELEINE PEYROUX - HALF THE PERFECT WORLD". British Phonographic Industry. December 08, 2006.
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