Cool Night
Studio album by Paul Davis
Released	November 30, 1981
Recorded	In full digital at Web IV Studios (Atlanta, GA); Winter 1980 to early 1981.
Genre	Soft rock
Length	38:00
Label	Arista
Producer	Ed Seay and Paul Davis
Paul Davis chronology
Paul Davis (1980) Cool Night (1981) The Best of Paul Davis (1982)

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Cool Night is the seventh and final studio album by singer/songwriter Paul Davis. It was his highest-charting album in the United States, reaching #52 on the Billboard album chart, and yielded three top-40 singles, "Cool Night", "'65 Love Affair", and "Love or Let Me Be Lonely". The third was a remake of a song by The Friends of Distinction. This album was the first to be both recorded and mixed fully digitally.^{[citation needed]} It features backing vocals by the Commodores who were simultaneously recording their 1981 album In the Pocket. While the album was a commercial success, Davis hated it, so much so that he ended his contract with Arista to sign with a much smaller label, before retiring from the music industry in 1988.

Track listing

All tracks were written by Paul Davis except where noted.

1. "Cool Night" – 3:40
2. "You Came to Me" (Davis, Joe Wilson, Mike Hughes) – 3:38
3. "One More Time for the Lonely" – 4:09
4. "Nathan Jones" (Leonard Caston Jr., Kathy Wakefield) – 3:27
5. "Oriental Eyes" – 4:28
6. "'65 Love Affair" – 3:54
7. "Somebody's Gettin' to You" – 3:30
8. "Love or Let Me Be Lonely" (Skip Scarborough, Jerry Peters, Anita Poree) – 3:41
9. "What You Got to Say About Love" (Davis, Doug Bare, Ben Rappa) – 3:53
10. "We're Still Together" – 3:40

Personnel

• Paul Davis – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
• Doug Bare – keyboards
• Tommy Cooper – keyboards
• Ed Seay – keyboards, bass, backing vocals
• Vance Taylor – keyboards
• Steve Hardwick – guitars
• Rick Hinkle – guitars
• Barry Dunaway – bass
• Steve Tischer – bass
• Gene Chrisman – drums
• Jean T. McHine – drums
• Benny Rappa – drums, backing vocals
• Carol Veto – backing vocals

Production

• Paul Davis – producer
• Ed Seay – producer, engineer
• Tommy Cooper – engineer
• Jim Loyd – mastering
• Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
• Donn Davenport – art direction
• Neal Pozner – design
• Tom Biondo – photography

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