Midnight Café

Released

April 1976

Recorded

Whitney Recording Studios
(Glendale, California)

Length

43:29^{[nb 1]}

Smokie chronology

Changing All the Time
(1975)

Midnight Café
(1976)

Greatest Hits
(1977)

Singles from Midnight Café

Midnight Café is the third studio album by the English rock band Smokie, released in April 1976.^[2]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Something's Been Making Me Blue"	Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman	2:59
2.	"Wild Wild Angels"	Chinn, Chapman	3:55
3.	"Poor Lady (Midnight Baby)"	Chris Norman, Pete Spencer	4:41
4.	"When My Back Was Against the Wall"	Norman, Spencer	3:34
5.	"Make Ya Boogie"	Alan Silson, Norman, Spencer, Terry Uttley	5:12

2007 remastered edition bonus tracks^{[nb 2]}
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
10.	"Train Song"	Silson	3:44
11.	"The Loser"	Norman, Spencer	3:02
12.	"I'll Meet You at Midnight"	Chinn, Chapman	3:17
13.	"Miss You"	Norman, Spencer	3:36
14.	"Living Next Door to Alice"	Chinn, Chapman	3:28
15.	"Run to You"	Silson, Uttley	3:46
Total length:			62:00

2016 remastered edition bonus tracks^{[nb 3]}
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
16.	"What Can I Do" (Alan Silson home demo)	Silson	3:52
Total length:			66:05

"I'll Meet You At Midnight" is the 12th track on the 2007 and 2016 remastered editions, lifting "Train Song" and "The Loser" up to 10-11, and bumping the remaining bonus tracks to 13-16.

Credits are adapted from the album's 1976^{[nb 4]} and 2016^{[nb 3]} liner notes.

Chris Norman – lead vocals, back vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, piano
Alan Silson – lead guitar, back vocals, acoustic guitars, lead vocals (on "What Can I Do")
Terry Uttley – bass guitar, back vocals
Pete Spencer – drums, percussion, back vocals

Chart (1976)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[3]	6
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[4]	12
Chart (1977)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	173

^ "What Can I Do" was recorded at Audio International Studios (London, England).

↑ Guarisco, Donald A. Smokie: "Midnight Café" > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ Hendriks, Phil (2007). Midnight Café (booklet). Smokie. London: 7T's Records (GLAM CD 38). p. 3.
↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Smokie – Midnight Café" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Smokie – Midnight Café". Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

Smokie

Terry Uttley Martin Bullard Steve Pinnell Mike Craft Mick McConnell Past members: Alan Silson Chris Norman Clarence Dawson Ron Kelly Arthur Higgins Pete Spencer Alan Barton

Studio albums	Pass It Around Changing All the Time Midnight Café Bright Lights & Back Alleys The Montreux Album The Other Side of the Road Solid Ground Strangers in Paradise Midnight Delight All Fired Up Boulevard of Broken Dreams Whose Are These Boots? Chasing Shadows Burnin' Ambition The World and Elsewhere Light a Candle - The Christmas Album Wild Horses – The Nashville Album Uncovered Uncovered Too On the Wire Take a Minute

Live albums	Greatest Hits Live Live in Concert 1995-1997 - Who the Fuck is Alice

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits The Very Best of Smokie - 14 Hit Singles The Very Best of Smokie

Singles	"Pass It Around (1975) "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" (1975) "Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll to Me" (1975) "Living Next Door to Alice" (1976) "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone" (1977) "Needles and Pins (1977)

Related articles	Smokie discography

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