Contact (Freda Payne album)

Contact was Freda Payne's fourth album and her second for Invictus Records. The majority of the material on this album contains sad themes, with the exception of "You Brought the Joy." The album begins with a dramatic 11-minute medley of "I'm Not Getting Any Better" and "Suddenly It's Yesterday," both of which were written by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier; some people thought that Holland and Dozier were trying to compete with Diana Ross's hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" as both songs contain spoken segments and dramatic musical arrangements. The only cover song is Glass House's hit "He's in My Life."

Three singles were lifted from this album: "Cherish What Is Dear to You (While It's Near to You)," "You Brought the Joy," and "The Road We Didn't Take." The anti-war protest song of "Bring the Boys Home" was released before the latter two to high demand and was not included in the first 50,000 copies of this album; after it became a hit (along with giving Payne her second gold record), it replaced "He's in My Life" as the album's fourth track.

Track listing

Album credits

• All songs published by: Gold Forever Music Inc., BMI
• Produced by: Greg Perry, William Weatherspoon, and Ronald Dunbar
• Arrangers: H.B. Barnum, McKinley Johnson, and Anthony Camillo
• Engineers: Lawrence T. Horn, Barney Perkins
• Album design/concept: CRAIGBRAUNINC
• Photography: Steve Berman
• Jacket/poster: Mfg'd by SOUND PACKAGING CORP.

Charts

Album

Singles