Paid Vacation (album)

Paid Vacation
Studio album by Richard Marx
Released February 8, 1994[1]
Recorded June 1993 - January 1994
Genre Rock, Pop
Length 49:38
Label Capitol
Producer Richard Marx, Terry Thomas, Fee Waybill
Richard Marx chronology
Greatest Hits
(1991)		 Paid Vacation
(1994)		 Ballads
(1994)
Singles from Paid Vacation
  1. "Now And Forever"
  2. "Silent Scream"
  3. "The Way She Loves Me"
  4. "Nothing Left Behind Us"
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Allmusic [2]

Paid Vacation is the fourth studio album by singer/songwriter Richard Marx. The album's first single "Now And Forever" hit #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. This song also spent eleven consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. The follow-up single, "The Way She Loves Me" hit #3 in the United States.

The album was dedicated to Marx's wife Cynthia Rhodes and sons Brandon, Lucas, and Jesse Marx.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Way She Loves Me" (Marx) - 4:15
  2. "One More Try" (Marx, Bruce Gaitsch) - 4:25
  3. "Silent Scream" (Marx) - 3:52
  4. "Nothing to Hide" (Marx, Thomas) - 5:33
  5. "Soul Motion" (Marx, Gaitsch) - 5:22
  6. "Now and Forever" (Marx) - 3:32
  7. "Goodbye Hollywood" (Marx) - 4:56
  8. "Heaven's Waiting" (Marx) - 3:48
  9. "Nothing Left Behind Us" (Marx, Fee Waybill) - 5:22
  10. "What You Want" (Marx) - 3:49
  11. "One Man" (Marx) - 5:12
  12. "Baby Blues" (Marx, Gaitsch) - 0:53

Bonus Tracks on European release
• "Whole World To Save" - 5:31
• "Miami 2017" - 4:32

Bonus Tracks on Japanese release
• "Whole World To Save" - 5:31
• "Miami 2017" - 4:32
• "Another Heaven" - 4:31

Album credits

Personnel

Engineers

Guest Artists

References

  1. ^ "Paid Vacation". Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Paid-Vacation-Richard-Marx/dp/B000002UR0. Retrieved 2009-05-05. 
  2. ^ Allmusic review
Richard Marx
Studio albums
Compilations
Promo compilations
Live albums
Singles
"Don't Mean Nothing" · "Should've Known Better" · "Endless Summer Nights" · "Hold On to the Nights" · "Have Mercy" · "Satisfied" · "Right Here Waiting" · "Angelia" · "Nothin' You Can Do About It" · "Too Late to Say Goodbye" · "Children of the Night" · "Keep Coming Back" · "Hazard" · "Take This Heart" · "Chains Around My Heart" · "Now and Forever" · "Silent Scream" · "The Way She Loves Me" · "Nothing Left Behind Us" · "Until I Find You Again" · "At the Beginning" · "Days in Avalon" · "Straight from My Heart" · "When You're Gone" · "Ready to Fly" · "Everybody" · "When You Loved Me" · When Love Is All You've Got · Christmas Spirit
Singles composed
"What About Me" (Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Kim Carnes/1984) · "Crazy" (Kenny Rogers/1985) · "Edge of a Broken Heart" (Vixen/1989) · "Nothing to Hide" (Poco/1989) · "Surrender to Me" (Ann Wilson, Rob Zander/1989) · "The Best of Me" (Cliff Richard/1989) · "Heart in Pieces" (Tim Feehan/1990) · "The Reason Why" (John Farnham/1993) · "Every Year, Every Christmas" (Luther Vandross/1995) · "If You Ever Leave Me" (Barbra Streisand, Vince Gill/1999) · "Angel on My Shoulder" (Natalie Cole/2000) · "This I Promise You" (N Sync/2000) · "Still Holding Out For You" (SheDaisy/2001) · "Dance with My Father" (Luther Vandross/2003) · "Life Got in the Way" (Sister Hazel/2003) · "Someday" (Vince Gill/2003) · "With This Ring (Kenny Loggins/2003) · "I Miss Us (Kenny Loggins/2004) · "Last One Standing" (Emerson Drive/2004) · "World Inside My Head" (Sister Hazel/2004) · "Better Life" (Keith Urban/2005) · "If You Were My Girl" (Emerson Drive/2005) · "Everybody" (Keith Urban/2007) · "You Never Take Me Dancing" (Travis Tritt/2007) · "Just Like You" (George Canyon/2008) · "One Little Miracle" (Hawk Nelson/2008) · "All or Nothing" (George Canyon/2009) · "In Your Arms Again" (George Canyon, Crystal Shawanda/2009) · "Long Hot Summer" (Keith Urban/2010) · "Surrender" (George Canyon/2011)
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