Richard MARX: Too Late To Say Goodbye 7″ + Satisfied (live in Australia). Check video!

Description

Richard Marx – Too Late To Say Goodbye
Label: EMI USA
Catalog#: MT 80
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1990
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock

Tracklist
A Too Late To Say Goodbye (7″ Edit)
Written-By – F. Waybill* , Richard Marx
B Satisfied (Live)
Written-By – Richard Marx

Producer – Richard Marx
Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – David Cole

From the album Repeat Offender. Side B recorded live in Australia.

“Don’t Mean Nothing” is the début single by Richard Marx from his 1987 eponymous album. With the chart success of this and subsequent singles from his début album, Marx became the first male artist to reach the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart with four singles from a début album.
In 1988, Marx was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Rock Vocal Performance – Solo” for this song.

According to Richard Marxs personal commentary about the songs origin, his manager at the time asked Joe Walsh to play slide guitar on the song and he agreed. As a fan of the Eagles, Marx felt that musically the song could have belonged on the The Long Run album. Two other Eagles members, Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit sang background vocals on the song. Marx wrote the lyrics himself and co-wrote the music for this song with Bruce Gaitsch at Marxs first house in the Los Feliz area of Hollywood.

Personnel:
Lead vocals – Richard Marx
Rhythm guitar – Bruce Gaitsch, Joe Walsh
Guitar solo – Joe Walsh
Bass guitar – Nathan East
Piano – Michael Omartian
Drums – John M. Keane
Backing Vocals – Randy Meisner, Timothy B. Schmidt, Richard Marx

As the lead single from Richard Marx, the song saw success on both the Billboard Hot 100 singles and Album Rock Tracks charts. The single entered the Hot 100 chart upon release at number 78 and, 12 weeks later, reached its peak of number 3. The song also became a number-one hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart. In the UK, the song reached a high of number 78.