Album: Don't Cry Out Loud (1978)

Charted: 10

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• Baby cried the day the circus came to town
  'cause she didn't want parades just passin' by her
  So she painted on a smile and took up with some clown
  While she danced without a net upon the wire
  I know a lot about 'er 'cause, you see
  Baby is an awful lot like me
  
  Don't cry out loud
  Just keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings
  Fly high and proud
  And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all
  
  Baby saw that when they pulled that big top down
  They left behind her dreams among the litter
  The different kind of love she thought she'd found
  There was nothin' left but sawdust and some glitter
  But baby can't be broken 'cause you see
  She had the finest teacher-that was me-I told 'er
  
  Don't cry out loud
  Just keep it inside and learn how to hide your feelings
  Fly high and proud
  And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all
  
  Don't cry out loud
  Just keep it inside and learn how to hide your feelings
  Fly high and proud
  And if you should fall, remember you almost made it
  
  Don't cry out loud
  Just keep it inside and learn how to hide your feelings
  Fly high and proud
  And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all
  Writer/s: CAROLE BAYER SAGER, PETER ALLEN
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Dave from Modesto, CaI think this song says things can go well but remember anything can crash at any time. Instead of feeling as if you have failed look how far you have come and move on. I'm not saying its easy; just that its what you should do.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 3rd 1979, Melissa Manchester performed "Don't Cry Out Loud" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time the song was at #24 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and seven weeks later on March 25th, 1979 it peaked at #10 {for 1 week} and spent 23 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #9 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and also #9 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart...
  Ms. Manchester will celebrate her 64th birthday in twelve days on February 15th {2015}.
• Charles from Charlotte, NcManchester was discovered by Barry Manilow and Bette Midler. Manilow was Midler's musical arranger for many years.
• Sara from Silver Spring, MdThe song is also on the album I Could Have Been a Sailor recorded around the same time as Melissa Manchester's version of the Peter Allen song. The reason he wasn't big as a singer was that his songs were made famous by other singers then himself. Rita Coolidge recorded a song called "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" which Allen also sang on I Could Have Been a Sailor after doing a single (?) version of "Don't Cry Out Loud".
• Doug from Oakland, CaThe Moments did this great song in 1976 on the album,Moments With You.
• Onnie from High Point, NcArtist: Melissa Manchester (peak Billboard position # 10 in 1978-79)
  Words by Carol Bayer Sager and Music by Peter Allen
• Sara from Silver Spring, MdPeter Allen recorded this first in 1976. It was used in the Australian musical "The Boy From Oz"
  which starred Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen.

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