Album: Celine Dion

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Celine Dion
Celine Dion (Front Cover)

Album details

Released: 31 March 1992 (North America)

21 May 1992 (Japan)
22 June 1992 (UK & Australia)
7 September 1992 (Australia re-relase)

Length: 65:37
Label(s): Columbia Records
Studio(s): Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Studio Morin Heights, Morin-Heights, Québec, Canada.

Charts, Certifications & Awards

Charts
America
Country: Chart Entry Date Peak Position Weeks in Chart
Canada: The Record Albums Chart 25 May 1992 3(1) 63
Canada: RPM Albums Chart 18 Apr. 1992 4 ?
USA: Billboard 200 18 Apr. 1992 34 76
 
Europe
Country: Chart Entry Date Peak Position Weeks in Chart
U.K.: Albums Chart 10 Sep. 1998 70 3
 
Asia/Pacific
Country: Chart Entry Date Peak Position Weeks in Chart
Japan: Oricon Albums Chart 1992 59 ?
Australia: ARIA Top 50 Albums 20 Sep. 1992 15 9
New Zealand: Albums Chart 18 Oct. 1992 31 1
Certifications
Institution, Country Date Certification
RIAA, USA 20 Jul. 1992 Gold (500,000)
RIAA, USA 12 Mar. 1993 Platinum (1 million)
RIAA, USA 3 Jul. 1996 Platinum x2 (2 millions)
Awards
This album has not received any awards in the USA

Singles released

The 6 singles released from this album didn’t contain a Prince contribution:

Celine Dion is the eleventh studio album (second English-language album) by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and was released in March 1992.

The album contained With This Tear, a track written by Prince. The song has no musical input from Prince, as Celine Dion re-recorded his version with her own band and kept Clare Fischer’s orchestral arrangement.

The tracklist of the LP and CD are slightly rearranged (likely due to space limitations on the LP). With This Tear is the 13th track (twelfth song) on the CD, but the eighth track (seventh song) on the LP.


Sessions and compiling

While specific recording dates for With This Tear are not known, basic tracking took place in January 1992 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song, at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, California. The song was initially intended for Jevetta Steele, but it is not known if she recorded a version of the track. It was submitted to Celine Dion shortly afterwards, and she recorded her own version on 12 January 1992, produced by Walter Afanasieff. The song was included on the album at the last minute, replacing a cover of the song Calling You made famous by Jevetta Steele in 1987.


Promotion

The album produced six singles, Beauty and the Beast, If You Asked Me To, Nothing Broken But My Heart, Love Can Move Mountains, Water From The Moon and Did You Give Enough Love. It only reached number 34 on the US Billboard Pop Chart, but reached number 3 on her native Canadian Albums Chart, and the album sold over 5 million copies worldwide, selling steadily over time. The album also won numerous awards (see here for details).



Track listing
CD LP/MC

Details given for Prince-related tracks only

  1. Introduction
  2. Love Can Move Mountains
  3. Show Some Emotion
  4. If You Asked Me To
  5. If You Could See Me Now
  6. Halfway To Heaven
  7. Did You Give Enough Love
  8. If I Were You
  9. Beauty And The Beast
  10. I Love You, Goodbye
  11. Little Bit Of Love
  12. Water From The Moon
  13. With This Tear (4:12) 1
  14. Nothing Broken But My Heart
  15. Where Does My Heart Beat Now
  • Side 1:
  1. Introduction
  2. Love Can Move Mountains
  3. Show Some Emotion
  4. If You Asked Me To
  5. If You Could See Me Now
  6. Halfway To Heaven
  7. Beauty And The Beast
  8. With This Tear (4:12) 1
  • Side 2:
  1. Did You Give Enough Love
  2. If I Were You
  3. I Love You, Goodbye
  4. Little Bit Of Love
  5. Water From The Moon
  6. Nothing Broken But My Heart

1 Written by Prince.



Personnel
Musicians
  • Celine Dion – vocals
  • Celine Dion - vocals
  • Walter Afanasieff - keyboards, synth, bass, synclavier, acoustic guitar
  • Ren Klyce - Synclavier, sampler
  • Gary Cirimelli - Synclavier, programming
  • Dan Shea - keyboards, programming
  • Clare Fischer - orchestral arrangement
Orchestral Players:
  • Violins - Israel Baker, Russ Cantor, Ron Clark, Edward Green III, Harry Scorzo, Francine Walsh, Pamela Gates, Bruce Dukov, Norma Leonard, Teruko Brooks, Paul Shure, Pamela Thompkins, Gary Gertzweig, Davida Johnson, Ralph Morrison, Betty Moor
  • Violas - Alan de Veritch, Jorge Moraga, Michael Nowak, David Stenske, Margot MacLaine, Marilyn Baker
  • Cellos - Fred Seykora, Earl Madison, Nils Oliver, Judith Johnson
  • Contrabass - James Hughart, Robert Stone


Production
  • Walter Afanasieff - producer
  • Dana Jon Chappelle - engineer and mixer
  • Arne Frager - additional engineer (strings)
  • Neil King - second engineer
  • Simon Pressey - second engineer
  • Mark Hensley - second engineer
  • Brian Pollack - second engineer
  • Larry Mah - second engineer
  • Mick Stern - second engineer
  • Barbara Stout - production coordinator


Thanks
  • To Prince: "With This Tear" is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and felt ... thank you for the honour.



Releases
LP, CD, Cassettes and Other versions
Country Format Cat. Number Comments Front Back Label 1 Label 2
This section is under construction

Variants, Special Editions and Reissues
Country Format Cat. Number Comments Front Back Label 1 Label 2
This section is under construction
 
Additional Information
Promotion (at time of release) Trivia
  1. Where Does My Heart Beat Now
  2. (If There Was) Any Other Way
  3. Unison
  4. The Last to Know
References
1992
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