MARIAH CAREY - BUTTERFLY - NM - Vinyl LP

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MARIAH CAREY

"BUTTERFLY"

Vinyl LP

1997 original release vinyl LP on the COLUMBIA record label Cat n#  4885371-1

Made in HOLLAND

The album cover is in  NM condition. no splits or tears. The inner lyric/credits sleeve is also in NM condition

The vinyl itself is in NM condition. there a couple of very light papercuts/scuffs visible under a 1500watt strong light which will give an occasional low level click/pop when the LP is played.

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Full track list

Side One

1  Honey  5:02 
2  Butterfly  4:35 
3  My All  3:52 
4  The Roof  5:14 
5  Fourth of July  4:22 
6  Breakdown  4:44

Side Two

7  Babydoll  5:07 
8  Close My Eyes  4:21 
9  Whenever You Call  4:21 
10  Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)  3:49 
11  The Beautiful Ones  6:59 
12  Outside  4:45

The Band

Vocals: Mariah Carey, Dru Hill, Krayzie Bone

Background Vocals: Mariah Carey, Trey Lorenz, Melonie Daniels, Kelly Price, Krayzie Bone, Mary Ann Tatum

Guitar: Michael Ciro, Artie Reynolds

Keyboards: Dan Shea, Stevie J., Corey Rooney

Organ: Gary Montoute Hammond

Drums: Nathaniel Townsley

Keyboards: Walter Afanasieff, Peter "Ski" Schwartz, Donald Parker

Piano: Donald Parker

Technical Credits

Producer : David Morales, Mariah Carey, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Satoshi Tomiie, Stevie J., Corey Rooney, Poke & Tone

Arranger: David Morales, Mariah Carey, Satoshi Tomiie, Walter Afanasieff

Engineer: Dana Jon Chappelle, Bill Esses, David Gleeson, Franklin Grant, David Sussman, Richard Travali, Doug Wilson, Glen Marchese, Walter Afanasieff, Mike Scott, Ron Grant

Programming: Dan Shea, Walter Afanasieff

Drum Programming: Dan Shea, Stevie J., Poke & Tone . 

Butterfly is the sixth studio album by American pop/R&B singer Mariah Carey, released on September 16, 1997 in the U.S on Columbia Records. Butterfly has sold 3,719,000 copies in the U.S.[2] and was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. In the booklet of her 2009 album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, Carey stated that she considered Butterfly her magnum opus, and that it was a serious turning point in her life.
Reception
Butterfly debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with 236,000 copies sold in its first week; it remained there for one week, in the top twenty for twenty-one weeks and on the chart for fifty-five weeks (making one re-entry). The album sold more in both its fourteenth week and fifteenth week of release than in its opening week, peaking at 283,000 copies in its fifteenth (when it was at number 8). It has been certified 5x platinum by the RIAA and produced two number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "Honey" and "My All". "Honey" became the sixth single (and the third by Carey) to debut at number 1 on the Hot 100. The album also yielded the airplay-only singles "Butterfly" and "Breakdown". "The Roof (Back in Time)" and "Whenever You Call" received limited release in some countries.

Rolling Stone described Butterfly as "a transitional album" for Carey, who placed herself firmly in the "milieu of modern hip-hop-inflected R&B," while Allmusic stated that "it is one of her best albums, illustrating that Carey continues to improve and refine her music which makes her a rarity among her '90s peers."[3]

"Honey" was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song, while "Butterfly" was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The album won a Japan Gold Disc Award in category International Pop Album of the Year. For Butterfly, Carey won the American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist in 1998. The album also helped her win the BMI Pop Awards for "Songwriter of the Year" and the "Songwriter" awards for "Honey," "Butterfly" and "My All". Additionally, Carey won the Top Female Artist Blockbuster Entertainment Award.

Butterfly was selected as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[4]

The album received a Platinum certification in Europe

ROLLING STONE REVIEW
On what is something of a transitional album, the recently separated Mariah Carey moves still further away from the warmed-over Whitney Houston of Carey's early recordings and firmly into the milieu of modern, hip-hop-inflected R&B. The surprise is that she does it rather well.

Carey couldn't have wished for a better start than "Honey," the latest in the apparently unending series of Sean "Puffy" Combs-produced chart toppers this year. Built around the piano riff from the World's Famous Supreme Team's infectious 1984 hit, "Hey DJ," it's an undeniably catchy pop record that revamps her sound and image.

It's not as if Carey has totally dispensed with her old saccharine, Houston-style balladry. The tracks co-produced by the singer with her accomplice Walter Afanasieff mostly conform to the slushy formulas of past hits like "Hero." But the predominant mood of Butterfly is one of coolly erotic reverie. "We floated away," she sings on "Fourth of July," "delicately lay entwined/In an intimate daze." On "Babydoll," a track co-written with Missy Elliott, Carey finds herself "zoning out, thinking about/You and me between the sheets."

Essentially, Carey has found a comfortable perch between the music of Puff Daddy and Babyface. Guests on Butterfly include Dru Hill, who duets on a version of the Artist's "The Beautiful Ones," and Wish and Krayzie Bone, who lend their inimitable vocal interpolations to "Breakdown." All very 1997. Indeed, when the grand piano and drum kit make their entrance on the closing "Outside," along with Carey's old faux-gospel emoting, it all comes as a bit of a surprise. "Outside" aside, Carey has spread her wings, and she's ready to fly.
BARNEY HOSKYNS

(Posted: Oct 30, 1997) .

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