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. It was released in 1988 via

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. Recording sessions for this ten-track album took place at fourteen various recording studios in California. Production was primarily handled by Hewett, along with Monty Seward, Vincent Brantley,

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, Tom Keane, Jerry Knight and

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. The album peaked at number 110 on the us ''Billboard'' 200 album chart and at number 30 on the

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chart. It was supported by three hit

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: "Strange Relationship", "Once, Twice, Three Times" and "Forever and Ever". "Strange Relationship" and "Once, Twice, Three Times" made it to the

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chart, reaching number 9 and number 15 respectively.

Track listing

Personnel and credits

Musicians *

– lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 3, 5–8, 10), vocal arrangements (1-5, 7-10), music arrangements (3) * Monty Seward – keyboards (1, 3, 6), vocal arrangements (6), synthesizer programming (1, 3-6, 10), music arrangements (1, 3-6, 10), vocal arrangements (6) * Vincent Brantley – keyboards (2), keyboard bass (2), music arrangements (2) * David Zeman – keyboards (2), synthesizer programming (2) * Jeff Carruthers – synthesizer programming (2) *

– keyboards (3), Synclavier strings (3),

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(8), music arrangements (8) * Rex Salas – keyboards (4) * Tom Keane – keyboards (7), backing vocals (7), music arrangements (7), vocal arrangements (7) *

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– synthesizer programming (7) * John Keane – synth bass (7), drum programming (7) * Jerry Knight – all instruments (9), backing vocals (9), music arrangements (9) *

– all instruments (9) *

Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American Jazz fusion, fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. In addition to being a recording artist in his own right, Jackson is also a session player, with a career ...

– guitars (1, 3) * Ray Fuller – guitars (2, 4, 6, 8) *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchel ...

– guitars (5, 7) * Norman Merter – guitars (6) * Kevin Chokan – guitars (10) * Jim Blair –

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overdubs (1, 2), cymbal overdubs (3), drums (4) *

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– drums (3, 10) *

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– percussion (2, 5) *

Gerald Albright Gerald Albright (born August 30, 1957) is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for the albums ''24/7 (Gerald Albright and Norman Brown album), 24/7'' in 2012 and ''Slam Dunk'' in 2014 and was nominated for ''New Beginnings (Gerald Albr ...

– saxophone solo (2, 3, 4) * Ronnie Laws – saxophone solo (8) * Lynn Davis – backing vocals (1, 5, 8) * Josie James – backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 8, 9) * Karyn White – backing vocals (2, 5, 7) * Kimaya Seward – backing vocals (3, 6) * Alex Brown – backing vocals (5) * Carl Caldwell – backing vocals (5) *

James Ingram James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. After beginning his career ...

– backing vocals (5, 9) *

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– backing vocals (5) * Marva King – backing vocals (9) Production * Tommy Vicari – mixing, recording (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10) * Reginald Dozier – recording (2) * Gary Skardina – recording (2, 4, 5, 6, 9) * Joel Soyffer – recording (2) * Sabrina Buchanek – recording (3) * David Rideau – recording (3) * Jeffrey 'Woody' Woodruff – recording (7) * Mitch Gibson – recording (8) * Erik Zobler – recording (8) * Gary Wagner – recording (9) * Gregg Barrett – additional engineer (1), assistant engineer (3–6) * Cliff Jones – additional engineer (1), assistant engineer (3, 5, 7, 10), recording (6) * Pat MacDougau – additional engineer (1), assistant engineer (3, 5, 6, 7) * Linda Pina – additional engineer (1), assistant engineer (4, 6, 7, 10) * Walter Spencer – additional engineer (1), assistant engineer (3, 4, 5) * Lori Fumar – assistant engineer (2, 4, 8) * Toni Greene – assistant engineer (5) *

Brian Gardner Brian Knapp Gardner, also known as Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, is an American mastering engineer. He has worked on a number of recordings since the mid-1960s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B, hip hop, pop punk and dance-p ...

– mastering at

Bernie Grundman Mastering Bernie Grundman (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chri ...

(Hollywood, California) * Dina Andrews – production coordinator * Carol Bobolts – design * Randee St. Nicholas – photography

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1988 albums Elektra Records albums Albums produced by George Duke Albums produced by Aaron Zigman Albums produced by Jerry Knight