Tigers and Fireflies

Tigers and Fireflies is an album released by Lynsey de Paul in 1979. Recorded at Long View Farm Studios and produced by Rupert Holmes, the album features lead single "Hollywood Romance" (co-written by de Paul and David Jordan) which was well received and became a radio hit and the follow-up single "Tigers and Fireflies". Other tracks include "Losin' the Blues for You" and "Melancholy Melon", both co-written by de Paul and the actor James Coburn, "'Twas" was a piano bar song with a blue-sy feel co-written with the album's producer, Rupert Holmes. De Paul teamed up with former Eurovision singing partner Mike Moran for the uptempo "Without You". The album also featured an updated, rerecoding of her earlier hit single "My Man and Me", giving it a more blues style than the original ballad. Tom "Bones" Malone played brass, reeds and flutes on the album. Jesse Henderson was the engineer and mixed the album. Six of the tracks, including the title track and "Melancholy Melon", were finally released on CD on de Pauls' anthology CD Into My Music in March 2013 In his 1986 biography, Justin de Villeneuve, de Paul's manager at the time wrote "I gave Rupert Holmes a call in New York. He agreed to see me if I flew to America. Polydor, with the prospect of the involvement with Holmes, agreed to up the budget".

Contents

• Track listing
• Songs
• References