Gems is the twelfth solo album by American

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 singer Patti LaBelle

Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...

, released on MCA Records

MCA Records

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 in 1994. The album is notable for the international pop hit, the Ann Nesby

Ann Nesby

Ann Nesby is an American R&B, gospel, and dance music singer and actress. She is the former lead singer of Sounds of Blackness; a songwriter with credits including hits sung by Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight; plus she co-starred in the 2003 romance musical The Fighting Temptations with Cuba...

 co-write, "The Right Kinda Lover", which brought LaBelle a new legion of fans thanks to its production by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B and pop-music songwriting and record production team...

 and its catchy video which had LaBelle performing a seductress who chooses "the right mate" through a machine and if one man rubbed her the wrong way, she'd use a button to get rid of them. The album also features a hip-hop-esque remake of DeBarge

DeBarge

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's 1983 hit, "All This Love", produced by Teddy Riley. The album peaked at number forty-eight on the Billboard Top 200 and went gold with sales shipping past the 500,000 mark.

Tracklisting

1. "I'm in Love" (LaBelle/McKinney/Rich/White) 4:16
2. "All This Love" (DeBarge) 5:01
3. "The Right Kinda Lover" (Bennett-Nesby/Harris/Lewis/Wright) 4:52
4. "This Word Is All" (Duboc/LaBelle/McKinney/Wright) 4:40
5. "Too Good to Be Through" (Harris/Lewis/Wright) 4:19
6. "I Never Stopped Loving You" (Brown/McKinney/Moore) 5:00
7. "Stay in My Corner" (Flemons/Gold/Miller/Strong) 5:21
8. "If I Didn't Have You" (Curry/Sigler) 4:58
9. "I Can't Tell My Heart What to Do" (McKinney/Shockley/Smith) 4:47
10. "Time Will Tell" (McKinney/Moore/Willis) 4:59
11. "Our World" (Ellison/LaBelle/McKinney/Willie) 5:00
12. "Come As You Are" (DalBello/McKinney) 4:17