1. I've Got to Use My Imagination - Joan Osborne, Goffin, Gerry
2. Ain't No Sunshine - Joan Osborne, Withers, Bill
3. Midnight Train to Georgia - Joan Osborne, Weatherly, Jim
4. Baby Is a Butterfly - Joan Osborne, Osborne, Joan
5. Breakfast in Bed - Joan Osborne, Fritts, Donnie
6. Cream Dream - Joan Osborne, Osborne, Joan
7. Natural High - Joan Osborne, McCormick, Charles
8. Heart of Stone - Joan Osborne, Osborne, Joan
9. Sara Smile - Joan Osborne, Hall, Daryl
10. Eliminate the Night - Joan Osborne, Osborne, Joan
11. Break Up to Make Up - Joan Osborne, Bell, Thom
12. I Know What's Goin' On - Joan Osborne, Osborne, Joan
13. Alone with You - Joan Osborne, Osborne, Joan
14. Kiss and Say Goodbye - Joan Osborne, Lovett, Winfred "Bl
15. Heat Wave - Joan Osborne, Dozier, Lamont
16. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [From Standing in the Shadows of Moto - Joan Osborne, Dean, James
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On Breakfast in Bed, her first release on Time Life Records (yes, that Time Life) Joan Osborne tackles a crop of hand-picked soul and R&B favorites with equal parts sass and sensitivity. Long an underappreciated artist, Osborne is a performer with the wisdom to exercise vocal restraint for an effect that's more Dusty Springfield than Christina Aguilera. Her fine previous outing interpreting soul standards was aptly titled How Sweet It Is, and witness her contribution to the terrific 2002 film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, where Osborne's astute readings of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" and "Heatwave" outshone performers like Ben Harper and Gerald Levert (happily, both songs are included here). The title track and Hall and Oates' "Sara Smile" are both canny choices that play to her strengths in delivering credible blue-eyed soul, and six new Osborne-penned songs fit neatly into the record. If her compositions pale a bit next to the classics she covers (with the sultry and slithery exception of the excellent "Eliminate the Night"), give Osborne credit for bravely placing herself side-by-side with songwriting luminaries like Holland-Dozier-Holland and Bill Withers. Breakfast in Bed makes for a leisurely listen on a sunny Sunday morning, so put up your feet and stay awhile. --Ben Heege
Album Description
Joan Osbourne's recently recorded album pays homage to the great Soul and R&B songs of the late '60s and early '70s. The album features a unique combination of unforgettable interpretations of timeless R&B classics. Her first single to radio will be "I've Got to Use My Imagination."
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Breakfast in Bed
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2007-05-22)
- Publisher: Time Life Records
- Label: Time Life Records
- Studio: Time Life Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 39 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #7237
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Summary: Joan's voice carries the songs 2008-11-30
Comment: None of these songs needed to be covered again. But, hanging out with Joan and her rich voice is great! Mellow, rich and very comfortable.
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Summary: A Timeless Homage to the 70's 2008-09-11
Comment: Joan Osborne has won me over again, this time as the singer of 70's soul covers and the writer of new songs to fall in love with. I strayed over to this looking for a wife gift, I tend to listen to more Jazz and Blues vocalists, yet I found her voice styling and her arrangements tight and complete. I can say proudly that my wife and I sang along with her on her covers of Kiss And Say Goodbye, Midnight Train To Georgia, Sara Smile, Break Up To Make Up and Kiss And Say Goodbye. And other than the overly maudlin Baby Is A Butterfly, Ms Osborne has given us a wonderful makeout album... oops cd.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: A mixed bag. 2008-08-05
Comment: Joan has a great soulful voice and she has proved her versatility in handling everything from melodic pop to twangy country.
Her love for Motown favorites can be felt on "Breakfast In Bed".
A homage to early soul songs from the late '60s, "Breakfast In Bed" shows Osborne wasn't a one trick pony with her huge single "(What If God Was) One of Us".
On her latest offering, she looks toward Motown, with worshipful, full-throated covers of R&B classics plus six original songs, each written with such R&B style that you first wonder if you've heard that tune before.
After last year's little-heard Pretty Little Stranger released only seven months before this one, she wraps her husky voice all the way around a bunch of classics such as "Ain't No Sunshine", "Midnight Train To Georgia" and Dusty Springfield's "Breakfast in Bed".
She's in fine voice throughout her debut album for Time Life, but the inclusion of her two phenomenal covers from Standing in the Shadows of Motown at the end of the collection actually highlights the album's shortcomings.
The album is a real mixed bag.
Her voice is excellent but her languid and almost emotion-free interptretations are pretty far from a specially adventurous and engaging record.
There are no ground-breaking elements here, nothing's memorable, rather the album sways towards mainstream R&B which is a shame as the soul tracks are excellent and her potentials are limitless.
It seems that she and the producer have chosen to favour the marketing and the charts over quality and originality.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great 2008-06-25
Comment: Great Kick back and relax music. Joan does a wonderful job on this album! My fav is Eliminate the Night
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Her Best 2008-04-15
Comment: It is my opinion that this if Joan's best work. It is very soulful, and the sound is great. I would highly recommend this cd to anyone. I have played it over and over again. I wish that I could get it in SACD.
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