''What You See Is What You Sweat'' is the thirty-third

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singer

Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin ( ; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the " Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in '' Rolling Stone''s "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Wit ...

, released on June 25, 1991, by

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. It peaked at #153 on ''

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''s album chart, dropping off after seven weeks. This was Franklin's first new release in the

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era.

Track listing

Personnel

* Aretha Franklin – lead vocals, piano, background vocals *

Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musi ...

– guitar * Peter Schwartz – additional keyboards * Michel Legrand – synthesizer * Franck Thore – Pan pipes * Dean Parks – guitar *

Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Gr ...

– keyboards *

Marcus Miller William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. (born June 14, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work as a bassist. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandros ...

– bass guitar * Thierry Eliez – piano * Elliot Wolff – keyboards, drum programming * Teddy F. White – guitar * Al Turner – bass guitar * Buster Marbury – drums *

Michael Boddicker Michael Lehmann Boddicker (born January 19, 1953) is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. He is a three times National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (N.A.R.A.S.) Most Valuable Player "Synthe ...

– keyboards, programming * Larry Fratangelo – percussion * Hubert Eaves III – keyboards, drum programming * Charles Scales – synthesizer * Rick Iantosca – acoustic guitar * Oliver Leiber – keyboards, drum programming, guitar * Jason Miles – keyboards * Dominique Bertram – bass guitar * Joshua Thompson – keyboards, guitar, synthesizer * Vernon Black – guitar *

Randy Waldman Randy Waldman (born September 8, 1955, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor. In 2019, Waldman's arrangement of the " Spider-Man Theme" on his ''Superheroes'' album garnered the Grammy Award ...

– keyboards * Onita Sanders – harp * André Ceccarelli – drums * Louis Biancaniello – keyboards, programming * Larry Williams – programming *

David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...

– keyboards, programming * Paulinho da Costa – percussion * Candy Dulfer – saxophone * Guy Vaughn – drum programming * David Townsend – guitar *

Narada Michael Walden Narada Michael Walden ( ; Michael Walden; born April 23, 1952) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He acquired the nickname Narada from Sri Chinmoy. He began his career as a drummer, working primarily in the jaz ...

– drums, programming * Nat Adderley Jr. – keyboards * Bobby Wooten – keyboards, electric piano, drum programming, synthesizer * David Boruff – saxophone * Rudolph Stansfield – piano * Jean-Marc Benais – guitar * Gene Lennon – programming * Skip Anderson – keyboards * Cindy Mizelle – background vocals * Jesse Richardson – background vocals *

Sandra Feva Sandra Feva (born Sandra Arnold, May 14, 1947 – June 26, 2020), also known as Sandra Richardson, was an American soul singer, composer, and backing vocalist. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the oldest of five siblings, but grew up in D ...

– background vocals * Brenda Corbett – background vocals *

Fonzi Thornton Alfonso "Fonzi" Thornton is a U.S. 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 recordings of Aret ...

– background vocals * Diane Green – background vocals * Sherry Fox – background vocals * Portia Griffin – background vocals * Margaret Branch – background vocals * Jarvis Barker – background vocals * Nikita Germaine – background vocals * Skyler Jett – background vocals * Jeanie Tracy – background vocals * Tony Lindsay – background vocals *

Gwen Guthrie Gwendolyn Guthrie (July 9, 1950 – February 3, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter and pianist who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made f ...

– background vocals * Tawatha Agee – background vocals * Donna Davis – background vocals * Marj Harber – background vocals * Esther Ridgeway – background vocals * Gloria Ridgeway – background vocals * Gracie Ridgeway – background vocals

Charts

References

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