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Esther Phillips
What A Diff’rence A Day Makes [with Beck] (CD)
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (US) / 2002 / Cat # ???
CD in jewel case
Produced by Creed Taylor
Arranged by Joe Beck
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studios (April, 1975)
Vocals: Esther Phillips
Lead guitar: Joe Beck
Rhythm guitar: Steve Khan
Steel guitar: Eric Weissberg
Keyboards: Don Grolnick
Bass: Will Lee
Drums: Chris Parker
Percussion: Ralph MacDonald
Tenor saxophone: Michael Brecker
Alto saxophone: David Sanborn
Trumpets: Randy Brecker, Jon Faddis, John Gatchell, Alan Rubin
Trombones: Barry Rogers, Tony Studd
French horns: Jimmy Buffington, Brooks Tillotson
Violins: Emanuel Green, Leo Kahn, Kathryn Kienke, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Gene Orloff, Max Pollikoff, Matthew Raimondi
Violas: Al Brown & Manny Vardi
Cellos: Charles McCracken & George Ricci
1. One Night Affair (5:50)
2. What A Diff'rence A Day Makes (4:30)
3. Mister Magic (4:23)
4. You're Coming Home (3:22)
5. I Can Stand A Little Rain (3:21)
6. Hurtin' House (5:02)
7. Oh Papa (4:19)
8. Turn Around, Look At Me (3:59)
Bonus track:
9. What A Diff'rence A Day Makes (Single Version) (3:10)
Remastered reissue of the 1975 album with a bonus track added on.
„What A Diff'rence A Day Makes“ is without a doubt a disco classic. The Gamble/Huff-written „One Night Affair“ is very danceable as well. While the rest is slower it’s great nonetheless. So this makes for a highly recomended release.
Submitted by musiquelover (14)
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES, twenty-four little hours, is without a doubt a DISCO CLASSIC. Every, and I mean EVERY DISCO IN TOWN not only burned this record out, but played it for close to a full year!! I remember ESTHER PHILLIPS going from club to club performing it. Even in such small DISCOS as REFLECTIONS and LE COCU she sang over her record. That type of personal promotion was rarely done, I can't remember anyone other then her and TINA CHARLES doing that. The quick pace of this record would have been called "High Energy" in later years, but was simply called PURE DISCO back in 1975. True DISCO fanatics would call this a prototype of the times' DISCO music, and they would be correct! A must have, a standard of the DISCO era, a TEN on my scale from 1-10.