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Overnight Success (Neil Sedaka album)

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Overnight Success
Studio album by
Released1975
GenrePop
LabelPolydor (UK)
Rainbow Records (Australia)[1]
ProducerRobert Appère, Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka chronology
Laughter in the Rain
(1974)
Overnight Success
(1975)
Steppin' Out
(1976)

Overnight Success is a 1975 studio album containing the works of Neil Sedaka. It was released in the UK and throughout Europe on the Polydor label, and Australia on the Rainbow label. Later that same year, in the US, most of this album was issued under the title The Hungry Years, with two songs from the British album replaced on the American album.

Track listing

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Side one

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  1. "Crossroads" 3:28
  2. "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" 3:19
  3. "Stephen" 4:23
  4. "Bad Blood" (Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody) 3:09
  5. "Goodman Goodbye"* 3:55
  6. "Baby Blue" 3:32
  • (On the US album The Hungry Years, "Goodman Goodbye" is replaced with "Your Favorite Entertainer", which is 3:32 in length.)

Side two

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  1. "The Queen of 1964"* 3:57
  2. "New York City Blues" 4:22
  3. "When You Were Lovin' Me" 4:35
  4. "The Hungry Years" 4:08
  5. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) (ballad version) 3:21
  • (On the US album The Hungry Years, "The Queen of 1964" is replaced with "Tit for Tat")

Re-release

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1998

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All the tracks from the British album were included in the Varese Sarabande 1998 re-issue of the American album The Hungry Years; hence, although the re-issue contains the track listing of the American album, the British songs "Goodman Goodbye" and "The Queen Of 1964" were included as two of the four bonus tracks.

See also The Hungry Years

2012

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In April 2012, the album Overnight Success was re-issued by BGO Records in combination with the album The Tra-La Days Are Over on CD.

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[2] Silver 60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ "NEIL SEDAKA - Overnight Success - Original 1975 LP ALBUM (Vinyl Ex)".
  2. ^ "British album certifications – Neil Sedaka – Overnight Success". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved July 14, 2022.