Johnny Gill

Artist: Johnny Gill
Label: Motown
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 737463628327
EAN: 0737463628327
ASIN: B000001AK5

Release Date: 1992-03-09

Johnny Gill

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Tracks:

Rub You The Right Way
Fairweather Friend
Wrap My Body Tight
Feels So Much Better
Never Know Love
My, My, My
Lady Dujour
Just Another Lonely Night
Giving My All To You
Let's Spend The Night
My, My, My (Reprise)

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It's telling when an artist releases two self-titled recordings a mere seven years apart. Gill has a great voice, but for the most part he remains in search of good material and effective production. This eponymous effort for Motown (the first was for Atlantic in '83) is his best effort. Gill was simply the finest voice to pass through the New Edition aggregation. His impassioned baritone gives lust a rare urgency and repentance an unusual poignancy (if not outright credibility). The teams of L.A. Reid and Babyface or Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced the best tracks on this record, and "Rub You the Right Way," is a minor classic. Gill has yet to match this disc, but in the right company, he will. <I>--Martin Johnson</I>

Customer Reviews:

Badly underrated album that deserves to be heard.......2006-10-23

Not to be confused with his signature 1990 album, Johnny Gill's 1983 debut album might disappoint fans of New-Jack Swing, but certainly not those who love the bubblegum-type sound of early New Edition (which didn't feature Gill when this album was released). It did yield one minor R&B hit "Super Love", is well-produced throughout, and features two great songs in "Guilty" and "Half-Steppin." This album is difficult to find (even on tape) so if you see it, grab it.

Dynamic R&B album that Johnny Gill made in 1990.......2006-03-11

Johnny Gill's first album for Motown Records after a few albums for Cotillion Records was a superbly done, vocally strong album. Johnny's hits were unbelievable, about 5 within a year's time from this album. I didn't know that Johnny had it in him in the ultra funky Rub You The Right Way. Johnny's gruffs and the jacked up rhythms and beats clash so very well together in the song's electrifying 5 minutes! I still love the underrated hit Fairweather Friend, which has such a cool yet aggressive kind of groove and rhythm. This album had Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis as well as LA and Babyface-produced songs, though there were some other names that were involved with this album. You can tell which ones are which with their distinctive sounds. But the performances are unbelievable, as Johnny sings with so much soul on songs like the sexy, romantic My, My, My, Lady DuJour, Never Know Love. I really like the album version of Wrap My Body Tight than that sloppy remix version that they made for the radio. The album version is funkier than that remix. It sounds very close to Bobby Brown's songs, but this is a Johnny song. Johnny's later '90s albums are good, but they are no match to this album, a sonic display of raw talent and vocal growth.

MY,MY,MY WHAT A GREAT ALBUM.......2005-09-12

THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE ALBUM FROM START TO FINISH. YOU DON'T RUN INTO GOOD ALBUMS LIKE THESE ANYMORE. JOHNNY GILL HAS SUCH A STRONG VOICE. EVERY SONG ON THIS ALBUM IS GOOD. JUST PUT THE CD IN AND ENJOY. YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED. THE ALBUM WAS WELL PRODUCED. THIS IS A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR R&B CD COLLECTION.
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The thrid time is the charm.......2005-04-12

After releasing two unsuccesful solo CD's, Johnny Gill came into promise when he joined New Edition for their 1988 4x plantium CD Heartbreak. Johnny Gill re-established himself as a solo artist in 1990, and he did so in tremendous fashion, recording an astonishing self-titled debut for Motown that brought together the hitmaking duos Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and L.A. & Babyface to produce an album chock-full of hits. The combination of these two duos was unprecedented. Along with Teddy Riley, they had dominated late-'80s urban radio, utterly and absolutely, churning out hit after hit after hit and co-defining the burgeoning new jack swing movement in the process. Gill likewise had recently experienced enormous success during the late '80s when, following two flat solo albums for Atlantic, he joined New Edition for its Heart Break album and its long run of hits, including "Can You Stand the Rain," a number one hit that featured him prominently. Thus it was only fitting that Motown's visionary teaming of these artists at their respective primes culminated in a set of wonderful songs, chief among them "Rub You the Right Way" (a Jam & Lewis production) and "My, My, My" (L.A. & Babyface). The former was a high-energy, pleading chart-stormer that infiltrated urban radio with brute force and sent Gill straight up the charts in the process; the song furthermore became a coast-to-coast club favorite - and remained so for years upon years afterward, standing tall as one of the definitive new jack swing anthems of the era. The latter was the yin to "Rub You the Right Way"'s yang; it became a quiet storm favorite and even crossed over to the pop and smooth jazz markets, reprising many of the same qualities that had made Babyface's own "Whip Appeal" single such an across-the-board chart-topper only a year earlier. While nothing else on Johnny Gill quite rivaled "Rub You the Right Way" and "My, My, My," the remainder of the album still had more than its fair share of highlights. There was a second round of singles ("Fairweather Friend" was another new jack stepper, "Wrap My Body Tight" another slow jam), as well as a couple of excellent album tracks ("Feels So Much Better" and "Giving My All to You") that could have been hits for anyone else

My, My, My.......2005-04-08

What could you say about New Edition member self-titled album. While 15-years later, this album still has its effects as it's release date. "Feels So Much Better" written and co-produced by the great Babyface falls inbetween the more dance tracks to prepare you for tracks 6 and on which contain all slow love songs for constant play. With help from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis every song that Johnny sang on this album is a single. It's so good that even track 11, "My, My, My (reprise)", is a keeper as an instrumental interlude that last only 1:11. Johnny Gill could set the mood right for any intimate evening.

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