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Bossa Nova Hotel is the 1983 debut album of rock singer/guitarist Michael Sembello. The album was a continuation of the work that Sembello began with producer Phil Ramone on "Maniac," which became a number one US pop hit after it was featured in the film Flashdance and on its soundtrack album. Bossa Nova Hotel peaked at number 80 on the US album chart and included the soundtrack hit in addition to two more chart entries, "Automatic Man" and "Talk."

Bossa Nova Hotel
Standard artwork
Studio album by
Michael Sembello
ReleasedSeptember 1983
Recorded1983
Studio
  • Rumbo (Los Angeles)
  • Soundcastle (Los Angeles)
  • Westlake (Los Angeles)
  • EFX Studios
Genre
  • Rock
  • pop rock
  • hi-NRG
Length39:53
LabelWarner Bros.
Producer
Michael Sembello chronology
Bossa Nova Hotel
(1983)		 Without Walls
(1986)
Singles from Bossa Nova Hotel
  1. "Maniac"
    Released: May 1983
  2. "Automatic Man"
    Released: September 1983
  3. "Talk"
    Released: January 1984
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Background


Songwriters Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky recorded a demo of a song titled "Maniac" that they had written after Matkosky watched a news report about a serial killer, and the tape landed in the hands of Phil Ramone, who was looking for songs to use in the film Flashdance.[2] After changing the lyrics, a new version of "Maniac" recorded by Sembello was released on the soundtrack album and went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1983.[3] The singer-songwriter chose to work with Ramone on his debut album because he felt they were a good match. Having worked with so many producers over the years as a session musician, he knew how inflexible they could be, but Ramone was different.[4] "Phil is just about as nuts as I am and will try anything, which is great."[5] On the material itself, he said, "I wanted to take some of the elements of Brazilian music and fuse them with pop,… kind of the way The Police have done with reggae."[5]


Release


Bossa Nova Hotel was released by Warner Bros. Records in September 1983[6] and made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LPs & Tape chart in the issue dated October 8 to start a 10-week run there, during which time it reached number 80.[7] "Automatic Man", the first official single from the album, debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue of the magazine dated September 24, 1983, and peaked at number 34 over the course of 10 weeks.[8] The second single, a duet with his wife Cruz called "Talk", started its 10 weeks on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart in the February 4, 1984, issue and got as high as number 25.[9]

The album was re-issued in 2007 on CD by Wounded Bird Records.


Track listing


No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Automatic Man"David Batteau, Michael Sembello, Danny Sembello4:13
2."First Time"Batteau, Don Freeman, M. Sembello3:04
3."Cowboy"Batteau, M. Sembello, D. Sembello3:35
4."It's Over"Alfred Rubalcava, M. Sembello4:56
5."Maniac"Dennis Matkosky, M. Sembello4:18
6."Godzilla"Phil Ramone, M. Sembello, D. Sembello3:50
7."Talk"M. Sembello, D. Sembello3:26
8."Cadillac"M. Sembello4:11
9."Lay Back"M. Sembello4:02
10."Superman"M. Sembello4:36
Reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Summer Lovers"M. Sembello, Batteau, Matkosky4:11
12."Maniac" (Live)Matkosky, M. Sembello4:51
13."Automatic Man" (Live)Batteau, M. Sembello, D. Sembello5:00

Charts


Chart (1983) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 80

Personnel


Technical

References


  1. "Bossa Nova Hotel - Michael Sembello". AllMusic. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  2. Matkosky, Dennis (2020). Maniac Men (bonus feature from Maniac: 4K Ultra HD + Special Features Blu-Ray) (DVD). Blue Underground.
  3. Bronson 2003, p. 576
  4. Grein, Paul (September 17, 1983). "Talent & Venues: Michael Sembello Maps More Assaults on Charts". Billboard. New York: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 39. I was a session man for years and have worked with just about everybody," he says. "I can say for a fact that 80% of producers are structured and rigid. They have their own ideas about things and won't bend a lot to the artist's ideas.
  5. Grein, Paul (September 17, 1983). "Talent & Venues: Michael Sembello Maps More Assaults on Charts". Billboard. New York: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 39.
  6. Grein, Paul (September 3, 1983). "Fall Prospects: Pre-Holiday Deluge of Compilations Begins". Billboard. New York: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 4.
  7. Whitburn 2010, p. 694.
  8. Whitburn 2009, p. 869.
  9. Whitburn 2007, p. 246.

Bibliography




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