''Other Voices'' is the fourth studio album by English singer

Paul Young Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s. H ...

. Released in June 1990, the album peaked at No. 4 on the

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and has been certified gold by the

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for UK sales in excess of 100,000 copies. The album contains four UK singles: " Softly Whispering I Love You" (UK #21), "Heaven Can Wait" (UK #71), " Calling You" (UK #57), and a cover of the Chi-Lites' hit " Oh Girl" (UK #25, U.S. #8). The album followed the pattern of Young's first three albums combining cover versions with original songs. However, with the songwriting partnership of Young and keyboard player Ian Kewley breaking up, this album returned to the dominance of cover versions seen on Young's debut '' No Parlez''. However, there were three original songs composed by Young with new keyboard player

Martin Page Martin George Page (born 23 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and bassist. Page has collaborated with artists such as Paul Young, Starship, Robbie Robertson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Heart (band), Heart, Robbie Williams and Go West (b ...

Track listing

Other Voices was re-released as a 2 x CD album in 2012 under licence on Cherry Pop and contained a second CD containing 12" remixes and b-sides. #"Heaven Can Wait" (Paul Rutter) – 4:12 #" A Little Bit of Love" ( Paul Rodgers, Andy Fraser, Paul Kossoff, Simon Kirke) – 3:52 #" Softly Whispering I Love You" ( Roger Cook,

Roger Greenaway Roger John Reginald Greenaway (born 23 August 1938) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook and Tony Burrows. His compositions have included " You've Got Your Troubles" and the ...

) – 4:14 #"Together" (Paul Young,

) – 4:33 #"Stop on By" (

Bobby Womack Robert Dwayne Womack ( ; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's ...

, Terry Thomas) – 5:23 #"Our Time Has Come" (Paul Young, Martin Page) – 4:39 #" Oh Girl" ( Eugene Record) – 3:36 #"Right About Now" (Paul Young, Martin Page) – 5:11 #"It's What She Didn't Say" (

Peter Wolf Peter Wolf (born March 7, 1946) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of The J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist. Early life and education Wolf was born Peter Walter Blankfield on March 7, 1946, in the Bronx ...

, Ina Wolf) – 5:04 #" Calling You" ( Bob Telson) – 5:08 #"Dolcemente Mormoro Ti Amo (Softly Whispering I Love You) - 5:10 (note: not on standard CD) CD2 Listing # " Softly Whispering I Love You (Extended Version)" # "Leaving Home" # "Lovers Cross" # "You're the One" # "'Til I Gain Control Again" # "Trying to Guess the Rest" # "Back Where I Started" # "Heaven Can Wait (12" Remix)" # "That's How It Is (Remix)" # "Everything Must Change (Live)"

Personnel

– lead vocals, acoustic guitar (3), backing vocals (6) * Richard Cottle – keyboards (1, 5),

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(3) * Paul Wickens – acoustic piano (1, 3, 4, 8),

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(1), Hammond organ (4) * Richard Hilton – programming (2) *

Nile Rodgers Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. The co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 750 million albums and 1 ...

– programming (2), guitars (2) *

Warne Livesey Warne Livesey (born 12 February 1959) is a British/Canadian music producer, mixing engineer, songwriter and musician. He has produced Midnight Oil, The The, Matthew Good Band and Deacon Blue. Life and career Warne Livesey started his career in L ...

– synthesizers (3), synthesizer programming (3), acoustic guitar (3), keyboards (4, 8), programming (4), bass (8) *

Steve Winwood Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock. Though primarily a guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist prominent for his dis ...

– Hammond organ (5) *

– keyboards (6, 8), percussion (6), backing vocals (6), additional guitar (8), bass (8) *

Larry Williams Lawrence Eugene Williams (May 10, 1935 – January 7, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist from New Orleans. He is best known for writing and recording some rock and roll classics from 1957 to ...

– keyboards (6), programming (6), saxophone (6) *

Pete Wingfield William Peter Wingfield (born 7 May 1948) is an English record producer, Keyboardist, keyboard player, songwriter, singer, and music journalism, music journalist. Career Whilst at Sussex University, Wingfield and three other students formed ...

– acoustic piano (7) *

– keyboards (9, 10) * Steve Bolton – guitar (1) *

David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour ( ; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink F ...

– lead guitar (1), guitar solo (2) * Robbie McIntosh – electric guitar (3), guitars (4) * Dominic Miller – nylon guitar (3), guitars (8) * Neil Hubbard – guitars (5) * Dann Huff – guitars (6) * Robert Ahwai – guitars (7) * David Williams – guitars (9) * Dori Caymmi – guitars (10), backing vocals (10) *

Pino Palladino Giuseppe Henry "Pino" Palladino (born 17 October 1957) is a Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer. A session bassist, he has played bass for a number of acts such as the Who, the John Mayer Trio, Gary Numan, Paul Young, Don Henle ...

– bass (1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10) * Julian Crampton – bass (7) * Neil Conti – drums (1) * Andres Levin – drum samples (2) *

Manu Katché Manu Katché (born 27 October 1958) is a French drummer and songwriter of Ivorian descent. He has worked extensively as a session musician, notably with Sting and Peter Gabriel, and his solo albums as a bandleader are largely in the jazz fusio ...

– drums (3, 4, 5, 8) *

Vinnie Colaiuta Vincent Peter Colaiuta (born February 5, 1956) is an American drummer known for his technical mastery who has worked as a session musician in many genres. He was inducted into the ''Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 1996 and the ''Classic Drumme ...

– drums (6, 9, 10) * Graham Ward – drums (7) * Danny Cummings – percussion (4, 5) *

Anne Dudley Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genre ...

– strings (3, 7) * Guy Barker –

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(4) *

Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris (; Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th c ...

–

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solo (7, 10) *

Chaka Khan Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan ( ), is an American singer. Known as the " Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of ...

– harmony vocals (1, 5) * Jimmy Chambers – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 7) * George Chandler – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 7) * Ava Cherry – backing vocals (1, 8) * Belva Haney – backing vocals (1, 8) * Jimmy Helms – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 7) * Beverley Skeete – backing vocals (1, 8) * Michelle Cobbs – backing vocals (2) * Lamya – backing vocals (2) *

Fonzi Thornton Alfonso "Fonzi" Thornton is an American vocalist, songwriter, producer and vocal contractor. In a career spanning 40 years, Thornton has sung backing vocals for top artists across many genres of music. His vocal credits can be found on the re ...

– backing vocals (2) * Robert Carr – backing vocals (3) * Paul Lee – backing vocals (3) * Merlin Sutherland – backing vocals (3) * Carol Thompson – backing vocals (3) * Joan Todd – backing vocals (3) * Liliana Chachian – Spanish chorus (4) *

Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), '' The Old Gringo'' (1985) and '' Christop ...

– Spanish chorus (4) * Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals (6) * Joe Pizzulo – backing vocals (6, 9) * Phyllis St. James – backing vocals (6) *

Phillip Ingram Phillip Ingram (born 1958) is an American musician. He is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of the Motown Group Switch and is the younger brother of James Ingram. Biography Ingram was raised in Akron, Ohio. He came from a musica ...

– backing vocals (9) * Darryl Phinnessee – backing vocals (9) * Oren Waters – backing vocals (9) * Ina Wolf – backing vocals (9)

Production

* Paul Young – executive producer * Wayne Livesey – producer (1, 3, 4, 5, 8) * Nile Rodgers – producer (2) * Martin Page – producer (6) * Pete Wingfield – producer (7) * Peter Wolf – producer (9, 10) * Patrick Dillett – engineer * Bino Espinoza – engineer, mixing (9) * Ted Hayton – engineer * Steve Jackson – engineer * Joe Scott – recording * Mark Chamberlain – overdub recording * Mike Ross-Trevor – strings engineer (3, 7) * Bob Clearmountain – mixing (1, 3, 7) * Michael H. Brauer – mixing (2, 4, 5, 6, 8) * Paul Erickson – mixing (10) * Stylorouge – art direction, design * Douglas Brothers – photography * Ged Doherty – management

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

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