''Always'' is the second studio album by American recording artist Pebbles. It was released on September 11, 1990, by

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and spawned two Top 20 hits on the U.S. Hot 100, which also hit #1 on the R&B chart: " Giving You the Benefit" (US #4 pop, #1 R&B) and " Love Makes Things Happen" (a duet with Babyface, US #13 pop, #1 R&B), as well as the top-five R&B hit "

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" (featuring

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), and the top 20 R&B hit "Always".

Track listing

Production

* L.A. & Babyface – executive producers, producers (1–8) * Pebbles – executive producer, co-producer (8) * Daryl Simmons & Kayo – producers (9, 10) * Jon Gass – recording (1–9), mix engineer, mixing * Jimmy Dutt – recording (4, 10) * L.A. Reid – mixing * Ron Christopher, Ryan Dorn, Jimmy Dutt, Thom "TK" Kidd and Barney Perkins – additional engineers * Michael Alvord, Steve Battle, Mike Baumgartner, Kyle Bess, Rich Caughron, Jim Champagne, Milton Chan, Ross Donaldson, Fred Law, Ted Malia, Joe Shay, Donnell Sullivan, Michael White, Bill Zalin and Jim "Z" Zumpano – assistant engineers * Donnell Sullivan – mix assistant * Eddy Schreyer – mastering at Future Disc (Hollywood, California) * Donald Parks – production manager * Zetra Smith – production manager (4, 9) * Jeff Adamoff – art direction * September – art direction * Randee St. Nicholas – photography * Gallin Morey Associates – management

Personnel

* Pebbles – lead vocals, backing vocals, vocal arrangements * Babyface – keyboards (1–8), keyboard programming (1–8), rhythm arrangements (1–8), vocal arrangements (1–9), backing vocals (2, 3, 4, 8), lead vocals (3), Moog bass (4), Fender 5-string bass (5, 7), guitars (8), guitar solo (9) * Donald Parks –

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(1–4, 8, 10), Synclavier programming (1, 3, 8, 10), Synclavier (5, 6, 7, 9) *

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– keyboards (8) * Daryl Simmons – backing vocals (4, 9, 10), keyboards (9, 10), keyboard programming (9, 10), guitars (9), rhythm arrangements (9, 10), vocal arrangements (9, 10) * Kayo – Moog bass (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10), Fender 5-string bass (3), percussion (5, 7), backing vocals (9, 10), vocal arrangements (9, 10), keyboards (10, keyboard programming (10), drums (10) *

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– drums, percussion, backing vocals (1, 9), rhythm arrangements (1–8), vocal arrangements (1–4, 6, 8) *

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– backing vocals (1, 2, 6, 10) * Natisse "Bambi" Jones – backing vocals (1, 6, 8) *

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– raps (2) *

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– backing vocals (4, 8) * Karyn White – backing vocals (4) * Cherrelle – backing vocals (8)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 1990 albums MCA Records albums Pebbles (singer) albums Albums produced by L.A. Reid Albums produced by Babyface (musician)