Breakfast in Bed (album)

Breakfast in Bed
Studio album by Joan Osborne
Released 2007
Genre R&B
Label Time Life M19433
Producer Tor Hyams
Joan Osborne chronology

Pretty Little Stranger
(2006)
Breakfast in Bed
(2007)
Little Wild One
(2008)
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Breakfast in Bed is the fifth studio album released by blues artist Joan Osborne. It was released in 2007 by Time Life.[1] The album mostly contains soul cover songs from the 1970s and 1980s, including "Midnight Train To Georgia" by Gladys Knight & the Pips. The album also contains six original songs.

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Two cover songs that Osborne sang live from the documentary movie, Standing in the Shadows of Motown are featured at the end of this album: Martha and the Vandellas' "Heatwave", and Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?"

Track listing

  1. I've Got to Use My Imagination
  2. Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
  3. Midnight Train to Georgia
  4. Baby Is a Butterfly (Osborne)
  5. Breakfast in Bed (Eddie Hinton/Donnie Fritts)
  6. Cream Dream (Osborne)
  7. Natural High
  8. Heart of Stone (Osborne)
  9. Sara Smile (Daryl Hall and John Oates)
  10. Eliminate the Night (Osborne)
  11. Break Up to Make Up (Thom Bell/Linda Creed/Kenneth Gamble.<)
  12. I Know What's Goin' On (Osborne)
  13. Alone with You (Osborne)
  14. Kiss and Say Goodbye
  15. Heat Wave
  16. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
  17. Everybody Needs a Friend

Chart performance

Chart (2007) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 160

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