1100 Bel Air Place is a concept album of love songs largely composed by Albert Hammond, and performed by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, released on 10 August 1984 by CBS Records internationally and by Columbia Records in the United States. It was the first of Iglesias' albums to be performed largely in English, and it is generally considered his breakthrough album in English-speaking markets.
The album features Iglesias' only US top-40 singles, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", with Willie Nelson, and "All of You" with Diana Ross. The Beach Boys performed backing vocals on "The Air That I Breathe", a song from Albert Hammond's 1972 album It Never Rains in Southern California, which was also a major hit for the British band the Hollies in 1974. The album also features a re-working of Hammond's song "It Never Rains in Southern California", with new lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and re-titled "Moonlight Lady", with an interpolation of the original song as an uncredited reprise at the track's conclusion.
The album's title is the address, 1100 Bel Air PlaceâÂÂIglesias' former home in Los Angeles, which was owned by music producer Quincy Jones until September 2005.
Promotion
To promote 1100 Bel Air Place, Julio Iglesias began a world tour on 15 June 1984 in Puerto Rico. The tour totaled 124 concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia and the Orient. The tour was sponsored by Coca-Cola and sold around 1 million tickets.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the 1100 Bel Air Place liner notes:
Performance credits
Vocals
Keyboards, Rhodes, Synthesizers
Guitars
Drums
Bass
Percussion
Trumpets
Trombones
French Horns
Background Vocals
Violins
- Gerald Vinci
- Assa Drori
- Arnold Belnick
- Isabelle Daskoff
- Henry Ferver
- Reg Hill
- Kathy Lenski
- Haim Shtrum
- Marshall Sosson
- Mary Tsumura
- Bobb Sushel
- Bob Sanov
- Bill Nuttycombe
- Joe Goodman
- Shari Zippert
- Stanley Plummer
- Bill Hymanson
- Sheldon Sanov
Viola
- Dave Schwartz
- Allan Harshman
- Stan Ackerman
- Virginia Majewski
- Marilyn Baker
- Garey Nuttycombe
- Myer Bello
- Pamela Goldsmith
Cello
- Fred Seydora
- Ray Kelley
- Douglas Davis
- Jacqueline Lustgarten
- Larry Corbett
- Ron Cooper
- David Speltz
Horns
Saxophone solo
Technical credits
- Richard Perry â producer
- Michel Colombier â arranger (tracks, strings)
- Randy Kerber â arranger (tracks, strings)
- Robbie Buchanan â arranger (tracks)
- â arranger (tracks), producer
- John Barnes â arranger (tracks)
- Jeremy Lubbock â arranger (strings)
- Erich Bulling â arranger (horns)
- Jules Chaikin â contractor
- John Rosenberg â contractor
- Andres Victorin â copyist
- Art Von Schloss â copyist
- Suzie Katayama â copyist
- Humberto Gatica â engineer, mixer
- Terry Christian â engineer
- Gabe Veltri â additional engineer
- Bill Scheniman â additional engineer (Diana's voice)
- Larry Greenhill â additional engineer (Willie's voice)
- Stuart Furusho â additional engineer
- Tom Fource â additional engineer
- Larry Fergusson â additional engineer
- Michael Brooks â additional engineer
- David Dubow â assistant engineer
- Bobby Gerber â assistant engineer
- Wally Traugott â mastering engineer
- Albert Hammond â associate producer
- Harry Langdon â cover photos
- Javier Paz â design
- Julie Adams â dialect coach for the album
- Lillian Glass â dialect coach for ("To All The Girls I've Loved Before")
Recording and mixing locations
- Studio 55, Los Angeles â recording
- Sunset Sound, Los Angeles â recording, mixing
- Lion Share, Los Angeles â recording
- Record Plant, Los Angeles â recording
- Ocean Way, Los Angeles â recording
- Lighthouse, Los Angeles â recording
- Pedernales, Austin â recording
- The Power Station, New York â recording
- The Hit Factory, New York â recording
- Capitol Records â mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
References
Bibliography