Unchain My Heart (album)

Unchain My Heart
Studio album by
Joe Cocker
Released9 October 1987
Recorded1986–1987
Studio
  • House of Music (West Orange, New Jersey)[1]
    Santa Barbara Sound Design (Santa Barbara, California)
    O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, California)
    Greene Street Recording (New York Citt, New York)
    Bearsville Studios (Bearsville, New York)
GenreRock, blue-eyed soul
Length42:05
LabelCapitol
Producer
Joe Cocker chronology
Joe Cocker Classics Volume 4
(1987) 		Unchain My Heart
(1987) 		One Night of Sin
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
New Musical Express5/10[2]

Unchain My Heart is the eleventh studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 1987.

Miller Lite used Joe Cocker's recording of "Unchain My Heart" for their Dalmatian campaign as the dog jumps from the Budweiser Clydesdale horse-drawn carriage to the Miller Lite truck.

The song "Trust in Me" was re-recorded in 1992 for the soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard. This version was recorded as a duet with Sass Jordan.

Track listing

  1. "Unchain My Heart" (Bobby Sharp, Teddy Powell) – 5:02
  2. "Two Wrongs" (Eddie Schwartz, David Bendeth) – 4:02
  3. "I Stand in Wonder" (Schwartz, David Tyson) – 4:21
  4. "The River's Rising" (Michael Lunn) – 4:05
  5. "Isolation" (John Lennon) – 3:51
  6. "All Our Tomorrows" (Schwartz, Tyson) – 4:21
  7. "A Woman Loves a Man" (Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight) – 4:14
  8. "Trust in Me" (Francesca Beghe, Marc Swersky, Midnight) – 4:12
  9. "The One" (Tom Kimmel, Jay Joyce) – 4:35
  10. "Satisfied" (Hartman, Midnight) – 3:22

Personnel

Musicians

  • Joe Cocker – vocals
  • Jeff Levine – keyboards (1–3, 5, 6, 8, 9), Hammond organ (4), grand piano (10)
  • Robbie Kilgore – additional keyboards (3, 5, 6, 9)
  • Greg Johnson – grand piano (8), organ (10)
  • Phil Grande – guitars, guitar solo (6, 10)
  • T. M. Stevens – bass
  • David Beal – drums
  • Sammy Figueroa – percussion (3, 5–8)
  • Dan Hartman – additional percussion (3), tambourine (4), additional guitars (5, 6, 8, 10), keyboards (7), guitars (7)
  • Clarence Clemons – tenor sax solo (1)
  • Lawrence Feldman – saxophone (3)
  • Ric Cunningham – alto saxophone (7)

The Uptown Horns – horns and horn arrangements on "Unchain My Heart"

  • Crispin Cioe – saxophones
  • Arno Hecht – saxophones
  • Bob Funk – trombone
  • "Hollywood" Paul Litteral – trumpet

Handclaps on "The River's Rising"

Background vocals

  • Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
  • Benny Diggs – backing vocals (1–4, 6, 7, 9)
  • Vaneese Thomas – backing vocals (1–4, 6, 7, 9)
  • Dan Hartman – backing vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 10)
  • B.J. Nelson – backing vocals (2, 4, 6, 10)
  • Renée Geyer – vocals (8)
  • Phoebe Snow – vocals (9)
  • Maxine Green – backing vocals (10)
  • Jayne Ann Lang – backing vocals (10)
  • Janice Singleton – backing vocals (10)

Production

  • Dan Hartman – executive producer
  • Charlie Midnight – producer
  • John Rollo – engineer
  • Joel Soyffer – additional engineer
  • Danny Grigsby – assistant engineer
  • Thom Chadley – assistant engineer
  • Mark Gaide – assistant engineer
  • Dave Mendenhall – assistant engineer
  • Nelson Ayers – additional assistant engineer
  • Paul Higgins – additional assistant engineer
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing at Unique Recording Studios (New York, NY)
  • Steve Entebbe – mix assistant
  • Matt Hathaway – mix assistant
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
  • Roy Kohara – art direction
  • Roland Young – design
  • Abe Frajndilich – photography
  • Michael Lang – management

Charts

Chart (1987) Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[3] 14
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[4] 20
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[5] 2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[6] 17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[7] 15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 6
US Billboard 200[9] 89
Chart (1988) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[10] 24
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[11] 5
Canadian Albums (RPM)[12] 40
French Albums (SNEP)[13] 21
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[14] 32

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[15] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[16] Gold 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[17] 3× Gold 750,000^
Italy (FIMI)[18] Gold 100,000[18]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[19] Platinum 100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[20] Platinum 50,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Accolades

Company Country Accolade Year Rank
Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Australia Top 50 Albums 1988 48

References

  1. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Unchain My Heart – Joe Cocker". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. ^ Minkoff, Myrna (12 December 1987). "Joe Cocker: Unchain My Heart". NME. p. 36.
  3. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  4. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Joe Cocker". Sisältää hitin – 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 50.
  5. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Joe Cocker Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  10. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  11. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  12. ^ "100 Albums". RPM. 47 (21). 12 March 1988. ISSN 0033-7064. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  13. ^ "InfoDisc: Tous les "Chart Runs" des Albums classés depuis 1985 dans le Top Albums Officiel". InfoDisc (in French). Retrieved 23 February 2013. Locate Joe COCKER on the drop-down menu and click OK.
  14. ^ "Charts.nz – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  15. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart". Music Canada. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  16. ^ "French album certifications – Cocker J. – Unchain My Heart" (in French). InfoDisc. Retrieved 19 April 2017. Select COCKER J. and click OK. 
  17. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Joe Cocker; 'Unchain My Heart')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  18. ^ a b "Unchained Sales" (PDF). Music & Media. 21 May 1988. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  19. ^ "Spanish certifications for 1979-1990" (PDF). PROMUSICAE. p. 924. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  20. ^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards ('Unchain My Heart')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
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