Melissa Manchester-"Don’t Cry Out Loud"

Here is one for the "who did it first" department:

Melissa's version of this song is actually a cover. The first time this song was released on a 45 was in 1977 by the R&B vocal group the Moments (who had a hit with their cover of "Love On A Two-Way Street" in 1970).
Their version of "We Don't Cry Out Loud" on the Stang label only reached #79 on Billboard's soul singles chart and went nowhere pop.

Todd Ireland wrote: This might be slightly off topic, but I've been wondering... If an LP master is made up of a compilation of "single" master tapes, then the finished LP master would be considered a second generation tape source, right? So does this mean then that the sound quality of an LP master is inherently inferior to a "single" master?

It generally depends on the album but actually, no. An LP master is often a grouping of first generation mixdowns that have been spliced onto one
master reel. This would be the first generation 'master' for any given album. However, in the analog days, an LP master would actually be a
generation up from that first generation tape (which would be referred to as a 'work part' to some) as they would create an LP cutting master with
all the EQ and processing 'baked in' to create the vinyl parts from.

Single masters, if they were the same as the LP, would probably be either a copy of that first generation copy or a copy of that LP cutting master.