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After Midnight (Janie Frickie album)

1987 studio album by Janie Frickie

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ110633803 ↗
Source-derived summary

After Midnight is a studio album by American country artist Janie Frickie. It was released in April 1986 via Columbia Records and contained ten tracks. It was the twelfth studio album issued in Frickie's music career and her second project produced by Norro Wilson. The album peaked in the top 40 of America's Billboard country LP's chart following its original release. Three singles were spawned from the album. Its highest-charting single was a duet with Larry Gatlin called "From Time to Time".

Background and content

Janie Frickie was considered among country music's most successful artists during the mid 1980s. She had a string of number one and top ten country singles in North America that ranged in musical style. Beginning with 1986's Black & White, Frickie teamed up with producer Norro Wilson and together they fused country with blues music. The pair would record in a similar fashion fior 1987's After Midnight.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “After Midnight (Janie Frickie album)” as 1987 studio album by Janie Frickie. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-04. The account is most persuasive where Midnight, Janie and Frickie can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1987 studio album by Janie Frickie. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q110633803. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “After Midnight (Janie Frickie album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.