Ultimate High

Ultimate High

Infobox Album | Name = Ultimate High
Type = Album
Artist = Carly Hennessy (Smithson)

| Background = Orange
Released = 13 November 2001
Recorded = Westlake Audio, BLC, Sol Seven Studios, Ameraycan Studios, Garfield Studios, and Larrabee Studios (L.A., Calif.), Townhouse Studios, Olympic, Soul II Soul and Titan Studios (London, UK), American Recording Co. (Calabasas, California), Front Page Recorders (Glendale, California)
Genre = Rock
Length = 52:39
Label = MCA Records
Producer = Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Steve Dorff
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ls9ds31qa3rg link]
*"Sacramento News and Review" (unfavorable) [http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A11308 link]
Last album = "Carly's Christmas Album" (1993)
This album = "Ultimate High" (2001)
Next album = TBA (2008/2009)
Misc = Singles
Name = Ultimate High
Type = Studio
Single 1 = I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind
Single 1 date = April 2001
Single 2 = Beautiful You
Single 2 date = 2001

"Ultimate High" is the debut album of Irish-born singer Carly Smithson, released under her maiden name Carly Hennessy in 2001 by MCA Records. It failed to find an audience despite getting good reviews and MCA Records spending over $2 million on the production and promotion of the album, and became a textbook example for the economics of today's music industry.

Two singles were released off the album: "I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind" and "Beautiful You".

Overview

Carly Hennessy signed with MCA Records in June 1999 and recorded eight songs for her début album with producer Steve Dorff, with whom she had already recorded the demo that got her the attention of MCA president Jay Boberg in the first place. However, both Hennessy and MCA were dissatisfied with the songs, finding they sounded too much like Barbra Streisand for the album's target teen audience. Thus, MCA hired producer Gregg Alexander in early 2000, who had been the lead singer of the New Radicals and since written and produced several hit singles in Europe for, among others, Ronan Keating. Alexander produced four songs for the album, which he had co-written with former child actress Danielle Brisebois, with whom he had also previously worked on several other projects, including Brisebois' two solo albums. Brisebois, who had never worked as a producer before, also produced several more tracks for the album, including two songs originally set to appear on her unreleased second album "Portable Life".

In April 2001, while the album was still in production, MCA released Hennessy's first single, "I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind", which got very little radio airplay as it was considered too mature for regular Top 40 radio and youth-oriented outlets and a too pop-sounding for adult top 40 radio.

In spring 2001, The Police and Sting manager Miles Copeland was hired as a co-manager (Hennessy was managed by her father before) and exerted pressure to finish the recording of the album. A second single, "Beautiful You", was released to promote the album, but it gained even less airplay than the first and when the album was finally released in November 2001, retailers ordered very few copies, as the two singles had not sold well. [cite web | title="Pop Singer Fails To Strike a Chord Despite the Millions Spent By MCA" | work=The Wall Street Journal | url=http://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?a=t&d=wsj&sd=users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2F0%2C4286%2CSB1014678641479060480%2C00.html%3Fmod%3DPage%2BOne | accessdate=February 26 | accessyear=2002 | author=Jennifer Ordoñez [http://blog.mattgoyer.com/stories/2002/02/21/popSingerFailsToStrikeAChordDespiteTheMillionsSpentByMCA.html Mirror] ]

Despite low album sales, Carly Hennessy later won a Meteor Award in 2003 for Best Irish Female Singer. [ [http://www.showbizireland.com/news/march03/04-mumba56.shtml ShowBiz Ireland - Samantha Mumba's Nipples Pop-out for the 2003 Meteor Awards: Photos ] ]

Track listing

# "Beautiful You" (Robb Boldt, Danielle Brisebois, Carly Hennessy) – 4:42
# "I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind" (Gregg Alexander) – 4:19
# "Surface Wound" (Alexander) – 3:54
# "You'll Never Meet God (If You Break My Heart)" (Alexander, Brisebois, Nick Lashley) – 4:36
# "No One's Safe From Goodbye" (Alexander, Brisebois, Hennessy) – 4:32
# "Young Love" - (Alexander, David Munday, Sandy Stewart) – 4:12
# "I Need A Little Love" (Alexander, Brisebois) – 4:07
# "Get You Off" (Boldt, Brisebois, Hennessy) – 4:16
# "Rip In Heaven" (Brisebois) – 3:29
# "All Kinds Of People" (Sheryl Crow, Kevin Gilbert, Eric Pressly) – 4:18
# "Just Missed The Train" (Brisebois, Scott Cutler) – 5:22
# "What I've Found" (Alexander, Brisebois, Hennessy, Lashley) – 4:45

Credits

* Larry Aberman – drums
* Gregg Alexanderguitar
* Rusty Anderson – guitar, electric guitar
* Ron Aston – drums
* Matt Austin – piano, keyboards
* Danielle Brisebois – background vocals, piano, keyboards, percussion, "trumpet", acoustic guitar
* Marie Brisebois – background vocals
* Lenny Castro – percussion
* Brad Cole – keyboards
* Chuck E. – piano, keyboards
* Sheila E. – percussion
* Moe "The Man" El-Khamlichi – Spoken intro of "Young Love"
* Paul Gordon – electric guitar, piano, keyboards, B3, organ
* James Halliwell – piano, keyboards
* Carly Hennessy – vocals, background vocals
* Nick Lashley – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
* Matt Laug – drums
* John Mabarack – piano, keyboards
* Lance Morrison – bass
* Andy Nehra – bass
* Ron Pengbom – drums
* John Pierce – bass
* Leland Sklar – bass
* Tom Sloape – piano, keyboards
* Rose Stone – background vocals
* Michael Thompson – guitar

References


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