Gayle Moran's I Loved You Then, from 1979

 

Gayle Moran is Mrs. Chick Corea. She did sing on some of his albums with RtF, but not all of them -- I believe. Their first one of course featured Flora Purim, recall.  (I much prefer their hard-assed fusion sound rather than the vocal songs with Spanish influence.)

Anyways it's surprising she didn't release more albums, and her songs are definitely lacking any of that, being more based in classical music, evidently she plays the piano too. Her husband plays on some tracks, and Stanley Clarke, his formidable fusioneer bassist, appears as well. Other luminaries on here: Bunny Brunel, Al Jarreau, trumpeter Al Vizutti, Melissa Manchester. They are probably all scientologists, because surprisingly the little-known actress ex-wife of Tom Cruise, Mimi Rogers, does some finger snapping on one track too, perhaps trying to wake up L. Ron?  The music is definitely not fusion, it's just as you'd expect with classical-based piano-accompanied songwriting, but it tries very hard to be interesting and original with tenderness-- and succeeds often.

In any case, the title track just absolutely blew me away-- as a progressive songwriting type of epic it's almost as gorgeously transcendent as Joni Mitchell's masterpiece, Paprika Plains that I've mentioned so many times in these pages:

I was really sad to see there were no other albums apart from this one, but you could say it wasn't meant to come out in this year, 1979, it belongs to an earlier more naive time perhaps.  Now let's hope the church of scientology doesn't sue me. All hail Xenu.