London Warsaw New York is the second studio album

Studio album

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 by Polish jazz

Jazz

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 and pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer–songwriter Basia

Basia

Basia Trzetrzelewska is a Polish singer-songwriter and record producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s and the late 2000s and 2010s, particularly in the United...

, released in the United States on October 23, 1989 by Epic Records

Epic Records

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. The album's title comes from a line in the song "Copernicus" (included on the album): "Our love will take this globe by storm/If it's London

London

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, Warsaw

Warsaw

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, or New York

New York City

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". Basia performed this song live on Late Night with David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman

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on Thanksgiving night on November 22, 1990.

The album earned a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America

Recording Industry Association of America

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 on August 11, 1992 for sales of over one million copies in the United States. It produced five singles: "Baby You're Mine", "Cruising for Bruising", "Brave New Hope", a cover version

Cover version

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 of "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

"Until You Come Back to Me " is the name of a song written by Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, and Stevie Wonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version did not appear on an album until 1977's Anthology...

", and "Copernicus". "Cruising for Bruising" peaked at number twenty-nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

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, Basia's second U.S. Top 40 hit and third (and last to date) entry on the Hot 100. Three singles entered the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

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 chart, including "Cruising for Bruising" (which reached number five, tying with "New Day for You" from Basia's previous album, Time and Tide, as her most successful entry on that chart); "Until You Come Back to Me" and "Baby You're Mine" also charted AC though they failed to make the Hot 100. The video for "Until You Come Back to Me" contains footage shot in Seattle, with scenes including the ever debated Alaskan Way Viaduct

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 and the landmark Paramount Theatre

Alaskan Way Viaduct

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.

Track listing

All songs written by Basia Trzetrzelewska and Danny White, except where noted.

1. "Cruising for Bruising
   Cruising for Bruising
   "Cruising for Bruising", is a 1990 single by Basia. The reception to this song was very warm, helping it become the bands' most successful single to date. "Cruising for Bruising" peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.-Charts:...
   
   " – 4:08
2. "Best Friends" – 4:01
3. "Brave New Hope" – 4:06
4. "Baby You're Mine" – 3:34
5. "Ordinary People" – 4:58
6. "Reward" – 5:08
7. "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
   Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
   "Until You Come Back to Me " is the name of a song written by Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, and Stevie Wonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version did not appear on an album until 1977's Anthology...
   
   " (Stevie Wonder
   Stevie Wonder
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   , Clarence Paul
   Clarence Paul
   Clarence Otto Pauling , better known as Clarence Paul, was a songwriter and record producer for Detroit's Motown Records....
   
   , Morris Broadnax) – 3:51
8. "Copernicus" – 3:51
9. "Not an Angel" – 4:23
10. "Take Him Back Rachel" – 4:18

Musicians

• Basia Trzetrzelewska – vocals
  Singing
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• Peter White – guitar
  Guitar
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  , accordion
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• Ronnie Ross
  Ronnie Ross
  Albert Ronald "Ronnie" Ross was a jazz baritone saxophonist.Ross moved to England in 1946 and began playing tenor saxophone in the 1950s with Tony Kinsey, Ted Heath, and Don Rendell. During his tenure with Rendell he switched to baritone saxophone...
  
   – baritone saxophone
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  , bass saxophone
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• Bud Beadle – saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Julian Crampton – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Marc d'Aieur – guitar
  Guitar
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• Andy Gangadeen – drums
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• Steve Gregory
  Steve Gregory
  Steve Gregory is an English jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor, alto, soprano and baritone saxophone as well as the flute.Steve Gregory was born in the UK. At St. Paul's School he learned guitar and piano and played clarinet in the school orchestra. He turned down a place at the...
  
   – saxophone
• Robin Jones – percussion
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• Andy Lafone – bass
• Kevin Robinson – trumpet
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• Andy Ross – guitar
• Snowboy – percussion, conga
  Conga
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  , berimbau
  Berimbau
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  , shaker
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• Danny White – drums, keyboards
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• Gavyn Wright
  Gavyn Wright
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   – strings
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• Mike Dignam – cymbal
  Cymbal
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• Danny "Balance" White – keyboards

Production

• Basia Trzetrzelewska – producer
  Record producer
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  , vocals arranger
• Paul Cox – photography
  Photography
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• Phil Harding – mixing
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• Paul Hulme – engineer
  Audio engineering
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• Tony King – mixing
• Fiachra Trench
  Fiachra Trench
  Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench is a musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland....
  
   – string arrangements
• Danny White – arranger
  Arrangement
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  , producer, drum programming
  Drum machine
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• Tim Young – mastering
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• Mike Dignam – engineer
• Donal Hodgson – assistant engineer
• Richard Barraclough – assistant engineer
• Mark Borthwick – photography
• Danny "Balance" White – arranger, programming
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  , producer
• Les Sharma – mixing

Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	28
Japanese Albums Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	33
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	68
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	20
U.S. Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums	1

Certifications

Country	Certifier	Certification	Sales
France	SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	Gold	100,000
United States	RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...	Platinum	1,000,000

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions
		U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	U.S. AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
1990	"Baby You're Mine"	—	18
	"Cruising for Bruising"	29	5
	"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) "Until You Come Back to Me " is the name of a song written by Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, and Stevie Wonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version did not appear on an album until 1977's Anthology... "	—	33
	"Copernicus"	—	-