JOURNEY: Who’s Crying Now 7″ + Escape [Different cover and B Side song] check video

Journey ‎– Who’s Crying Now
Label: CBS ‎– A 1467
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Rock

Tracklist
A Who’s Crying Now
B Escape

Paper sleeve release with wide center hole.
Label Code: LC 0149

“Who’s Crying Now” is a million-selling, RIAA Gold-certified single by the American rock band Journey. It was written by Jonathan Cain and Steve Perry. It was released in 1981 as the first single from Escape and reached #4 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The song charted at #46 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the band’s highest charting single in the UK until “Don’t Stop Believin’” (also released as a single from the Escape album in 1981) incurred a resurgence in worldwide popularity in 2009.

The song is highlighted by Steve Perry‘s lyrics (with a vocal riff highly reminiscent of Sam Cooke) and piano playing by Jonathan Cain which segues into a bass riff by Ross Valory, and other guitars. At the end of the song, Neal Schon plays a repeating guitar solo that sounds similar to Santana. According to Schon on In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of Escape), originally he recorded an aggressive, experimental guitar solo which he liked but Perry and Cain did not. He then recorded a second solo, the “simplest thing he could play off the top of his head” as recalled by Perry. That one was appreciated much more by the rest of the band. Steve Smith‘s drumming is only found in the choruses and towards the end of the song.

Who’s Cryin’ Now (1981)

It begins with an unvarnished piano piece from Cain, on which Perry builds his rich tone. And Ross Vallory provides some tasteful bass lines, to underline the whole feel of the song. This is the type of song that accentuates Perry’s love for great soul singers, while it also showcases the way in which Journey stood apart from all huge selling AOR masters, and why Escape is regarded as theclassic Journey album.

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