title: I Don't Want to Cry!
text: # I Don't Want to Cry!
  
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  I Don't Want to Cry! is Chuck Jackson's debut studio album, released in 1961. The album is completely devoted to songs about crying.
  
  Jackson co-wrote the title track. It became a Top 40 Pop hit and a Top 5 R&B hit.
  
  The album's design and photography was by Jules Maidoff.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  AllMusic wrote that the "hit title cut serves as a springboard to explore 11 other tear-stained tunes, forming a concept record detailing the many subtle gradations of melancholy and heartbreak."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side 1
  
  * "I Don't Want to Cry" (Luther Dixon, Chuck Jackson)
  * "Tears on My Pillow" (Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford)
  * "My Willow Tree" (Bob Elgin, Kay Rogers)
  * "In Between Tears" (Bob Elgin, Kay Rogers, Luther Dixon)
  * "Tear of the Year" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell)
  * "I Cried for You" (Abe Lyman, Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim)
  
  ### Side 2
  
  * "Lonely Teardrops" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Tryan Carlo)
  * "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (Joe Greene)
  * "Salty Tears" (Lincoln Chase)
  * "I Wake Up Crying" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  * "A Tear" (Luther Dixon, Willie Denson)
  * "A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry" (Frankie Laine, Irving Reid, Norman Gimbel)
  