Johnny Gill (1990 album)
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Johnny Gill is an album by R&B
singer Johnny Gill
. While it is his third album overall, it is technically his first as a solo artist post-New Edition
era after signing with Motown.
The self-titled album was in competition with Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
by MC Hammer
and Poison
by fellow New Edition
members turned Bell Biv DeVoe
for the number one spot on the Billboard
R&B album chart
in 1990. It finally peaked at that position that June where it stayed for three nonconseutive weeks. "Let's Spend the Night," included on the 2005 cd "Love Songs
," although not mentioned in this review has been noted by fans and critics as one of Gill's greatest vocal performances to date. Johnny Gill spun off four singles, with three of them reaching number one on the R&B chart as singles: "Rub You the Right Way," "My, My, My," "Wrap My Body Tight" and "Fairweather Friend (#2 R&B).
---Excerpted from AllMusic.com review by Jason Birchmeier
In October 2004, Rub You The Right Way (Remix) appeared in popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
, playing on fictional New Jack Swing
radio station CSR 103.9.
The popular live version of "My, My, My
," although not widely distributed, can be heard on the a page at MySpace (see Johnny Gill
).
(United States)
Singles - Billboard (United States)
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
singer Johnny Gill
Johnny Gill
Johnny Gill is an American R&B singer-songwriter. He is the sixth and final member of the R&B supergroup New Edition, and was also a member of another supergroup called LSG; with Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat. His signature song "My, My, My" has been included on numerous romantic...
. While it is his third album overall, it is technically his first as a solo artist post-New Edition
New Edition
New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
era after signing with Motown.
The self-titled album was in competition with Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em is the third and most popular album by MC Hammer, released between January 1, 1990 - February 12, 1990 by Capitol Records. There were different release dates for this album, some sources also claiming February 20, 1990...
by MC Hammer
MC Hammer
Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage name MC Hammer , is an American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s...
and Poison
Poison (album)
-Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Chart procession and succession:-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic and Discogs.*arranging – Carl Bourelly, Roney Hooks, Hank Shocklee*art direction – Bell Biv DeVoe...
by fellow New Edition
New Edition
New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
members turned Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe is an American R&B musical group which branched off from New Edition. It consists of three of New Edition's previous members, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe...
for the number one spot on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
R&B album chart
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
in 1990. It finally peaked at that position that June where it stayed for three nonconseutive weeks. "Let's Spend the Night," included on the 2005 cd "Love Songs
Love Songs (Johnny Gill album)
Love Songs is a compilation album of love songs by singer Johnny Gill, which includes material from "Johnny Gill" , "Provocative" , "Let's Get The Mood Right" , as well as New Edition's "Heartbreak" , and the soundtracks for "New Jack City" and "Mo' Money" .-Track listing:#My, My, My#Lady...
," although not mentioned in this review has been noted by fans and critics as one of Gill's greatest vocal performances to date. Johnny Gill spun off four singles, with three of them reaching number one on the R&B chart as singles: "Rub You the Right Way," "My, My, My," "Wrap My Body Tight" and "Fairweather Friend (#2 R&B).
Reception
"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...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)...While nothing else on Johnny Gill quite rivaled (these songs), 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...To the continual frustration of the singer, he would be forever dogged by this unduplicatable success, an album so massive, so epochal it would become, in a sense, his ultimate legacy. And a fine legacy it is, indeed."---Excerpted from AllMusic.com review by Jason Birchmeier
In October 2004, Rub You The Right Way (Remix) appeared in popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a 2004 open world action video game developed by British games developer Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the third 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise, the fifth original console release and eighth game overall...
, playing on fictional New Jack Swing
New jack swing
New jack swing or swingbeat is a fusion genre spearheaded by Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle which became extremely popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s. Its influence, along with hip-hop, seeped into pop culture and was the definitive sound of the inventive Black New York club scene...
radio station CSR 103.9.
The popular live version of "My, My, My
My, My, My
"My, My, My" is a number-one R&B single by Johnny Gill. As the second single from Gill's self-titled album, the hit song, with backing vocals performed by After 7, spent two weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart, and made the number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In 1991 the song won a...
," although not widely distributed, can be heard on the a page at MySpace (see Johnny Gill
Johnny Gill
Johnny Gill is an American R&B singer-songwriter. He is the sixth and final member of the R&B supergroup New Edition, and was also a member of another supergroup called LSG; with Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat. His signature song "My, My, My" has been included on numerous romantic...
).
Track listing
Charts
Album - BillboardBillboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
(United States)
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Billboard 200 | 8 |
| Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums | 1 |
Singles - Billboard (United States)
| Year | Song | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Rub You the Right Way | BillBoard Hot 100 | 3 |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 | ||
| Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 6 | ||
| Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 16 | ||
| My, My, My | BillBoard Hot 100 | 10 | |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 | ||
| Fairweather Friend | Billboard Hot 100 | 28 | |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 2 | ||
| Wrap My Body Tight | Billboard Hot 100 | 84 | |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 | ||
| Wrap My Body Tight | Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 8 | |
| Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 48 |
Personnel
- Johnny Gill - Percussion, Background Vocals, Vocals
- Jimmy Jam - Percussion, Drum & Keyboard Programming, Arranger
- Terry LewisJimmy Jam and Terry LewisJames Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B and pop-music songwriting and record production team...
- Percussion, Background Vocals, Arranger - Babyface - Keyboards
- Cirocco - Keyboards, Synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, Sound Effects
- Jim Demgen - Keyboards
- Randy Ran - Keyboards, Drum & Keyboard Programming, Vocal Backing, Arranger
- Steve Kroon - Percussion
- O'Jania, Daryl Simmons, Tony Tolbert, The Waters Sisters, Lance Ellington, After 7After 7After 7 is an R&B group founded in 1988 by brothers Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, and Keith Mitchell. The Edmonds brothers are the siblings of popular pop and R&B singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds"...
, Linda Brown, Pebbles, Karyn WhiteKaryn WhiteKaryn White was a new jack swing singer who became popular during the late 1980s.-Biography:White was born in Los Angeles,to the parentage of Vivian and Clarence White. She is the youngest of five children...
- Vocal Backing - George Wadenius - Guitars
- Kayo, Lucio Hopper - Bass
- Buddy Williams - Drums, Percussion
- L.A. Reid - Drums, Percussion, Mixing
- Kenny GKenny GKenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...
- Saxophone
Production
- Peter McCabe - Mixing
- Steve Meltzer - Artwork
- Louis Padgett - Engineer
- Donnell Sullivan - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
- John VanNest - Mixing
- Chris Cuffaro - Photography
- Beth Yenni - Design
- Zetra Smith - Production Coordination
- John Payne - Assistant Engineer
- Michael Alvord - Assistant Engineer
- Jheryl Busby - Executive Producer
- Jim Dutt - Engineer
- Brian Gardner - Mastering
- Jon Gass - Engineer, Mixing
- Steve Hodge - Engineer, Mixing