Johnny Gill (1983 album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Johnny Gill
Type = studio
Artist = Johnny Gill


Released = 1983
Recorded = 1983
Genre = R&B
Length = 41:02
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Freddie Perren
Reviews = "A New Teen-Age Titan of Pop Arrives"
Mike Joyce, Washington Post 8/4/83
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Last album = -
This album = "Johnny Gill"
(1983)
Next album ="Perfect Combination"
(1984)

Johnny Gill is the debut album of the R&B singer Johnny Gill.

Mike Joyce of the Washington Post wrote "Gill's recording of 'Superlove' has just broken through the Top 40 barrier on Billboard's Black Singles chart, and bigger things clearly await him if he can fulfill the promise of his debut album...Matching Gill's voice with his face initially may prove difficult for listeners; most of the time, he doesn't sound anything like a 16-year-old. In fact, there are moments when it sounds as if Gill has been singing soul music for at least as long as he's been alive...Throughout the album, his voice moves confidently between a gritty baritone and a sweet tenor, a range that allows him to handle both the sturdy Stax soul of Sam and Dave and a lightly romantic Lionel Richie-esque ballad such as 'You'...much of the success of the album can be attributed to producer Freddie Perren...Perren came up with just the right balance of material: a combination of thoroughly danceable and easily programmable pop tunes that should win Gill plenty of exposure and a variety of ballads that display the singer's extraordinary maturity. It all adds up to a most impressive debut."

--Excerpted from "A New Teen-Age Titan of Pop Arrives," Washington Post, August 4, 1983

Track listing

#Super Love
#Thank You
#Show Her Love
#Guilty
#When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
#Every Radio
#I'm Sorry
#I Love Makin' Music
#You
#Half Steppin'

Charts

Album - "Billboard" (United States)

Singles - Billboard (United States)

Album credits

*Johnny Gill – Main Performer, Vocals (Background), Bass and Lead Guitar, Drums, Bongos
*Freddie Perren – Arranger, Producer, Synthesizer Bass, Rhythm Arrangements, Drum Programming
*Clarence McDonald – Piano
*Cornelius Mims – Bass
*Carmen Twillie – Vocals (Background)
*Eddie Watkins – Bass
*Elliot Wolff – Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, Arranger
*Dennis King – Mastering
*Maxine Waters – Vocals (Background)
*Julia Waters – Vocals (Background)
*Ric Wyatt Jr. – Synthesizer, Arranger, Piano, Synthesizer Bass, Producer, Vocals (Background), Keyboards
*David Michael Kennedy – Photography
*Ed Biggs – Engineer, Remixing
*Ronald Adkins – Vocals (Background)
*Larry R. McIntosh – Vocals (Background)
*Harold Ferguson – Vocals (Background)
*James Goforth – Engineer
*Gene Page – String Arrangements
*Wade Marcus – String Arrangements
*Bob Brown – Remixing
*Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs – Synthesizer Strings
*John Barnes – Fender Rhodes
*Robert Bowles – Guitar Programming
*Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – Drums
*Charles Fearing – Guitar