''Set My Love In Motion'' is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter

Syreeta Wright Syreeta Wright (February 28, 1946 – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was an American singer-songwriter, best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights we ...

, released on October 21, 1981 by

Motown Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on June 7, 1958, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ''mot ...

. The album yielded three singles: "You Set My Love in Motion", "Can't Shake Your Love" and "Quick Slick". ''Set My Love in Motion'' did not score any commercial success, reaching the lower half of the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, where it peaked at No. 189, but fared much better on the

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chart, where it reached the top forty on that chart.

Track listing

Side one #"Quick Slick" (Norma Helms,

Hal Davis Harold Edward Davis (February 8, 1933 – November 18, 1998) was an American songwriter and record producer. Davis was a producer and writer for Motown Records for nearly thirty years, and was a key figure in the latter part of the Motown ...

, Mitchell Bottler) – 5:24 #"Move It, Do It" (Angelo Bond, Todd Cochrane, William Weatherspoon) – 3:54 #"You Set My Love in Motion" (Maureen Bailey, David Richard Cohen) – 3:29 #"There's Nothing Like a Woman in Love" (Brian Short, Gloria Sklerov) – 4:22 #"Can't Shake Your Love" (Norma Helms, Hal Davis, Mitchell Bottler) – 4:12 Side two #

"I Must Be in Love" (Kenneth Hirsch, Mark Mueller) – 3:52 #"Wish Upon a Star" (Syreeta Wright) – 3:45 #"Out the Box" (

Ollie E. Brown Ollie E. Brown (sometimes credited as simply Ollie Brown) (born April 20, 1953) is an American drummer, percussionist, record producer, and high-school basketball coach. A prolific session musician, Brown has performed on over a hundred albums in ...

, Paul M. Jackson, Jr., Syreeta Wright) – 5:44 #"I Know The Way To Your Heart" (Joe Blocker,

Marlo Henderson Marlo Henderson was an American guitarist and saxophonist, who played in mainly blues and R&B genres. As a session musician he played on albums such as ''Off the Wall'' by Michael Jackson, '' Them Changes'' by Buddy Miles, '' Face to Face'' by ...

) – 4:07 #"I Love You" (Paul Hines, James S. Stewart, Jr., Syreeta Wright) – 4:21

Personnel

*Syreeta – vocals *Barry Finnerty, Carlos Rios,

David T. Walker David T. Walker (born June 25, 1941) is an American guitarist, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued fifteen albums in his own name. Career David T. Walker was born to ...

Robert Palmer Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and wikt:sartorial, sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining Soul music, so ...

– guitar *

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 mus ...

– synthesizer, guitar *

Todd Cochran Todd Cochran (born September 3, 1951) is an American pianist, composer, keyboardist, essayist and conceptual artist. Early in his career he was also professionally known as Bayeté. Cochran started his career as a teenager with saxophonist John H ...

– keyboards, synthesizer *

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, Romeo Williams – bass guitar *

Clarence McDonald Clarence "Mac" McDonald (1944 or 1945 – July 21, 2021) was a Los Angeles-based American pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. McDonald was known for his musical diversity, enduring melodies and signature groove. His most famous composition ...

, John Barnes,

Sylvester Rivers Sylvester Rivers (born October 28, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, pianist and producer, based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, he has recorded with numerous major artists including Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson ...

– keyboards *

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 "Synthes ...

– synthesizer *

– guitar, sitar *Wayne Stalling, William Bryant Jr. – clavinet, piano, synthesizer *Eddie "Klunis" Summers,

James Gadson James Gadson ( James Edward Gadson; born June 17, 1939) is an American drummer and session musician. Beginning his career in the late 1960s, Gadson has since become one of the most-recorded drummers in the history of R&B. He is also a singer and ...

, Kenneth Elliott,

– drums *Melvin "Melmel" Webb,

, Paulinho da Costa – percussion *Gary Herbig,

Gerald Albright Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for 24/7 in 2012 and Slam Dunk in 2014 and has been nominated for New Beginnings in 2008 and for Sax for Stax in 2009. Biography Born in Los Angeles, Albright grew up in its ...

– saxophone *Andrea Robinson, Jeanette Hawes, Jim Gilstrap, Lynn Davis, Marti McCall, Patti Brooks, Suzanne Coston – backing vocals *

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 You'', ...

– horn arrangements *

Gene Page Eugene Edgar Page Jr. (September 13, 1939 – August 24, 1998) was an American conductor, composer, arranger and record producer, most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. His sound can be heard in the arrangements he did for Jeffe ...

– string arrangements

Chart performance

References

External links

* 1981 albums Syreeta albums Boogie albums Albums arranged by Gene Page Albums produced by Hal Davis Tamla Records albums {{1980s-R&B-album-stub