Joy (Teddy Pendergrass Album)
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''Joy'' is a studio album by the American singer
Teddy Pendergrass Theodore DeReese Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American Soul music, soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pendergrass lived most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initial ...
, released in 1988 on
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. It was nominated for a
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, in the "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male" category. ''Joy'' peaked at No. 54 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and No. 2 on the
R&B chart The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by '' Billboard''. Rankings are based on a measure of radio airplay, sales data, and streaming activity. The chart had 100 ...
, Pendergrass's highest placing on the chart since 1979's No. 1 album ''
Teddy Teddy is an English language given name, usually a hypocorism of Edward or Theodore or Theodora. It may refer to: People Nickname * Teddy Atlas (born 1956), American boxing trainer and fight commentator * Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olym ...
''. It peaked at No. 45 on the
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.


Production

The album was produced by Reggie and
Vincent Calloway Calloway is an R&B duo of Cincinnati, Ohio brothers Reggie (born January 23, 1955) and Vincent (born January 5, 1957) Calloway. They had a major hit in 1990 with " I Wanna Be Rich". Biography The brothers grew up around music with a father wh ...
,
Nick Martinelli Nicholas J. Martinelli (born 5 July 1952) is an American R&B and pop record producer. During the 1980s he worked with many R&B and pop music artists, some of them based in the UK. Acts he has worked with include Loose Ends, Phyllis Hyman, Fiv ...
,
Miles Jaye Miles Jaye Davis (born November 12, 1957), known professionally as Miles Jaye, is an American R&B and jazz singer, jazz violinist, songwriter, and record producer. He had several hits on the US R&B chart in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the b ...
, and Pendergrass. It was mostly recorded at Victory Studios, in Philadelphia.


Critical reception

The ''
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'' called the album "an accomplished meditation on romantic love and perhaps an exercise in imagination." ''
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'' praised the "dusky purr on slow-groove songs like '2 A.M.' and 'Love Is the Power'." The ''
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'' wrote that Pendergrass's "smoldering style has been replaced by a sleek, sophisticated sound that recalls the urbane elegance of Luther Vandross' best work."


Track listing

#"
Joy Joy is the state of being that allows one to experience feelings of intense, long-lasting happiness and contentment of life. It is closely related to, and often evoked by, well-being, success, or good fortune. Happiness, pleasure, and gratitu ...
" ( Reggie Calloway,
Vincent Calloway Calloway is an R&B duo of Cincinnati, Ohio brothers Reggie (born January 23, 1955) and Vincent (born January 5, 1957) Calloway. They had a major hit in 1990 with " I Wanna Be Rich". Biography The brothers grew up around music with a father wh ...
, Joel Davis) - 6:18 #"2 A.M." (James S. Carter, Kevin J. Askins, Marvin Hammett) - 5:25 #"Good to You" (Miles Jaye) - 5:13 #"I'm Ready" (Jaye) - 5:12 #"Love Is the Power" (R. Calloway, V. Calloway, Davis) - 6:16 #"This Is the Last Time" (
Gabriel Hardeman Gabriel S. Hardeman Jr. (December 13, 1943 – June 23, 2012), was an American gospel musician, pianist, and leader of the Gabriel Hardeman Delegation that included his wife Annette. He started his music career in 1976, with the release of ''Gabr ...
, Annette Hardeman) - 6:27 #"Through the Falling Rain (Love Story)" (Carter, Askins, Hammett) - 4:58 #"Can We Be Lovers" (Carter, Freddie Williams) - 5:29


Personnel

*Teddy Pendergrass -
lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...
*Charlene Hollaway, Cynthia Biggs, Annette Hardeman, Elizabeth Hogue, Tenita Jordan -
backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
*Gene Robinson, Jeff Lee Johnson, Randy Bowland, William "Doc" Powell -
guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
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Miles Jaye Miles Jaye Davis (born November 12, 1957), known professionally as Miles Jaye, is an American R&B and jazz singer, jazz violinist, songwriter, and record producer. He had several hits on the US R&B chart in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the b ...
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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...
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synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...
s,
violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
*Joel Davis - keyboards *
Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's '' Thriller'', '' Rock with Y ...
, Gary Grant -
trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...
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Bill Reichenbach Jr. William Frank Reichenbach Jr. (born November 30, 1949) is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He is the son of Bill Reichenbach, who was the drummer for Charlie Byrd from 1962 to 1973. He is best known as a session musician for television, ...
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trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...
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Marc Russo The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band from San Jose, California. Formed in the fall of 1970, the group was originally a quartet that featured lead vocalist and guitarist Tom Johnston, guitarist and second vocalist Patrick Simmons, bass ...
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saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...
*Daryl Burgee, J.T. Lewis -
drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
*Randy Cantor - synthesizers,
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*Douglas Grigsby III, Tom Barney - bass guitar *Donald Robinson -
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piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...
*John "Skip" Anderson -
electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joy (Teddy Pendergrass Album) Teddy Pendergrass albums 1988 albums Elektra Records albums