She (album)

Infobox Album | Name = She
Type = Album
Artist = Harry Connick, Jr.


Released = July 12 1994
Recorded = New Orleans
Genre = Funk
Length =
Label = Sony Columbia
Producer = Tracey Freeman
Reviews = Q (9/94, p.98) Rating|3|5
Last album = "When My Heart Finds Christmas"
(1993)
This album = "She"
(1994)
Next album = "Star Turtle"
(1995)

"She" is a funk album by Harry Connick Jr. recorded in 1994, accompanied by his newly-formed funk band. Every song lies within the framework of the rootsy New Orleans style.

Track listing

#"She" (Harry Connick Jr, Ramsey McLean) – 5:36
#"Between Us" (Connick, McLean) – 5:57
#"Here Comes the Big Parade" – 4:11 - an ode to Mardi Gras
#"Trouble" (Connick, McLean) – 2:40
#"(I Could Only) Whisper Your Name" (Connick, McLean) – 4:50
#"Follow the Music" (Connick, McLean) – 1:00
#"Joe Slam and the Spaceship" (Connick, Jonathan DuBose, Tony Hall) – 7:12
#"To Love the Language" (Connick, McLean) – 5:01
#"Honestly Now (Safety's Just Danger...Out of Place)" (Connick, McLean) – 5:31
#"She...Blessed be the One" (Connick, McLean) – 1:35
#"Funky Dunky" (Connick) – 6:22
#"Follow the Music Further" (Connick, McLean) – 1:19
#"That Party" (Connick, McLean) – 5:12
#"Booker" (Connick, McLean) – 6:26

Various information

*Track # 5 "(I Could Only) Whisper Your Name" was included on Columbia Records' soundtrack from action-comedy "The Mask", starring Jim Carrey.
*Track #14 "Booker" is a tribute to pianist James Booker, who was one of Connick's exemplary music teachers. Connick is playing every instrument on the song "Booker".
*The 1994 album sold to platinum.
*Music by Harry Connick Jr, lyrics by Ramsey McLean. In an interview at the time, with the Boston Globe, Connick explains "He (McLean) has a big book of poems that he'd written. I'd see one that I liked and I'd say, 'What do you guys think of this?' And I'd...pick out a melody."

Tour

Connick's 1994 album ditched the classic crooning style he was known for - the style that garnered him Grammy Awards and million-selling albums - in favor of an exploration of his New Orleans funk roots. He took his funk music on a tour of the United Kingdom in 1994. Connick also took his funk music to the People's Republic of China in 1995, playing at the Shanghai Center Theatre.

Connick's funk albums "She", and "Star Turtle" sold respectably, but some fans were upset with Connick's funk forays. At a 1994 concert in Cleveland, OH, disappointed fans began walking out from his concert in protest, they were expecting a jazz crooner. Some fans were even looking for refunds.

This happened in other cities as well and was brought to Connick's attention. "I hear about it, but I don't get too much of it firsthand. I mean, we just came back from Europe and the crowds were just out of control. I didn't get any sense that they wanted me to play anything other than what I was doing at the time," Connick said in a Boston Globe interview at the time.

Musicians

* Harry Connick Jr. - vocals, piano, organ, cymbal, fender rhodes, clavinet, dog chain, bass, drums, tambourine
* Jonathan Dubose - guitar, background vocals
* George Porter, Jr. - bass, background vocals
* David Russell Batiste, Jr. - drums
* Michael Ward - bongos, congas, tambourine, background vocals
* Tony Hall - bass
* Raymond Weber - drums, background vocals
* Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste - drums
* Tracey Freeman - vocals, clap
* Leroy Jones - trumpet
* Mark Mullins - trombone
* Alonzo Bowens - saxophone
* Ramsey McLean - recitation, partyman
* Gregg Rubin - clap
* Fieldfines Samantha Rambardi - woolen squeak trinket

External links

Musicvideos

* [http://www.singingfool.com/musicvideo.asp?publishedId=752324 "(I Could Only) Whisper Your Name" at singingfool.com]
* [http://mp.aol.com/video.index.adp?mxid=1376718&_AOL AOL.com: Featured Videos, "She"]
* [http://mp.aol.com/video.index.adp?mxid=1422062&_AOL AOL.com: Featured Videos, "Here Comes the Big Parade"]