Sony
1978
Stay The Night
About This Album
Bill Carpenter called Stay the Night "a subtle, sensitive try at the Top 40," and he was absolutely right. This is Jane Olivor's strongest effort to climb the charts since she and producer Jason Darrow almost reached adult contemporary fame with "One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round." That Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield composition got moderate middle-of-the-road airplay and was followed up two years later by the Neil Sedaka/Phil Cody song "Solitaire," a wonderful reading on Stay the Night. Since Karen Carpenter took that song to the Top 20 in 1975 (number one adult contemporary), it becomes a nice cover version on this album. Jane Olivor's real strength, however, comes when she takes on her own composition, "The Right Garden," where she lets go with all her talent and vocal expression. One can understand her need to reach a wider audience, and her single version of the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" is wonderful, but she was competing with Kristy McNichol and her brother, Jimmy McNichol, and their version actually charted in Cashbox. Artistically, the more comfortable zone for Olivor is the title track, "Stay the Night" (not the Ben Orr hit from 1987), her own "Let's Make Some Memories," or producer Jason Darrow's "Honesty.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4 and 10)

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