Category: BILL LaBOUNTY

As part of Sony Music Japan campaign titled AOR CITY 1000 featuring a low-priced reissue on classic AOR / AC albums from their back catalog (many of them out of print or hard to find) we have here as requested, BILL LaBOUNTY second album 1978’s ”This Night Won’t Last Forever”, an LP with that FM radio sound from the era and which delivered Bill’s first charting single, the title track.
That song – and many others – were recorded by other artists from Bob Dylan to Van Zant to Agnetha Fältskog, and while BILL LaBOUNTY never achieved big success as solo artist, he become a successful, demanded songwriter.
Among the top class musicians performing on “This Night Won’t Last Forever” – a really welcomed remastered reissue – we find Toto’s Jeff Porcaro, Lee Ritenour, Leland Sklar, etc, a true ‘L.A. Session’ team…

As part of Sony Music Japan campaign titled AOR CITY 1000 featuring a low-priced reissue on classic AOR / AC albums from their back catalog (many of them out of print or hard to find) we have BILL LaBOUNTY self-titled effort from 1982, a year where production / recording of this type of music was heavily influenced by TOTO standards: pristine and clear, and surrounded by top class session musicians.
Indeed, produced by produced by expert Russ Titleman, “Bill LaBounty” is a product with a full ‘LA Session’ monsters playing on it, from Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro and Greg Phillinganes, to David Sanborn and Lenny Castro.
Not only this is one of the finest Wesct Coast AOR album from that golden first half of the ’80s era for the genre, it has dynamics that will appeal fans of well crafted contemporary rock & pop music as well.
If you’re a fan of this particular style of music that was produced in L.A. from the late-70s through early-to-mid 80s, and was all over Top 40 radio pre-“Thriller”, treat yourself to a listen.
A very good remaster very similar in essence to the original warm LP version…