Between the Days

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Between the Days

Studio album by Merril Bainbridge
Released	October 6, 1998
Genre	Pop
Length	47:49
Label	Gotham Records (Australia)/Universal Music (U.S.)
Producer(s)	Siew Owen Bolwell (co-producer) Sam Melamed (co-producer)
Steven Kurutz, All Music Guide link
Merril Bainbridge chronology
The Garden (1995)	Between the Days (1998)

Between the Days is the second album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on October 6, 1998 (see 1998 in music) by Gotham Records. The album is a mix between alternative pop songs — written by Bainbridge herself, and Owen Bolwell. The album features a cover of the Sonny & Cher song "I Got You Babe", sang with the Jamaican rapper Shaggy. The album produced Bainbridge's fifth top forty single on the ARIA Charts, and another top one hundred single.

1 Reception
2 Track listing
3 Charts
4 Personnel

[edit] Reception

The album debuted on the Australian Albums Chart on October 12, 1998 at number fifty-eight, not as successful as The Garden which debuted at number five. It then dropped thirty-seven places to ninety-five. The album spent its last week in the chart at number ninety-four with a total of five weeks in the charts. In the U.S. the album was released six months after "Lonely" and did not have much promotion so it failed to chart on the Billboard 200.

The singles released from Between the Days were unsuccessful in most music markets. "Lonely" was the first song released from the album and was not a huge hit only peaking at number forty in Australia but was quite successful in Japan were it peaked at number twenty-five. "Lonely" was Bainbridge's third song eligible to chart in the U.S. but failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100 were it peaked at number eighteen on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart. "I Got You Babe" the second song released and is a cover of a Sonny & Cher song was not her most successful song only peaking at number sixty-two in Australia. "Between the Days" and "Walk on Fire" were also released as singles but failed to chart.

[edit] Track listing

"Between the Days" (Bainbridge, Owen Bolwell) – 3:40
"Lonely" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 3:34
"Goodbye to Day" (Bainbridge) – 4:04
"Stars Collide" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 4:19
"Walk on Fire" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 3:57
"Hello" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 4:02
"Blindfolded" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 4:38
"Love and Terror" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 3:54
"Call My Name" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 4:48
"Big Machine" (Bainbridge, Bolwell) – 4:10

Australian edition

11. "I Got You Babe" (Sonny Bono) — 3:22

[edit] Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	58

[edit] Personnel

Aaronski — studio assistant
Elvis Aljus — percussion (track 9)
Merril Bainbridge — background vocals (tracks 1—3, 5—11)
Alastair Barden — drums (tracks 7 and 9)
Mark Domoney — acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 4, 9, 10)
Karen Eden — background vocals (track 4)
Tony Espie — mixing (tracks 1—11)
Daniela Federici — photography
Stuart Fraser — guitar (track 7)
Dion Hirini — acoustic guitar (track 7)
Mark Ingram — engineer (tracks 1—11)
Warren Jenkins — bass (tracks 1, 4, 5, 7—10)
Anne McCue — acoustic guitar (tracks 5 and 7)
Roger McLachlan — bass (tracks 2 and 6)
Greg O'Connor — artwork
Alex Pertout — percussion (track 4)
Siew — producer (tracks 1—11)
Gota Yashiki — percussion (track 5), loops (tracks 3 and 8)
Leon Zervos — mastering

v • d • e Merril Bainbridge
Studio albums
The Garden • Between the Days
Singles
"Mouth" • "Under the Water" • "Power of One" • "Sleeping Dogs" • "Lonely" • "I Got You Babe" • "Between the Days" • "Walk on Fire" • "Girl Next Door"