Just The Beginning... (Voices album)
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Just The Beginning... is the only album released by the American
R&B group Voices. The album was not commercially successful, though it did yield three singles: "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!", "M.M.D.R.N.F. (My Mama Didn't Raise No Fool)", and "Cloudy With a Chance of Tears".
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R&B group Voices. The album was not commercially successful, though it did yield three singles: "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!", "M.M.D.R.N.F. (My Mama Didn't Raise No Fool)", and "Cloudy With a Chance of Tears".
Track Listing
- "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" - 4:33 (Allowyn Price)
- "Wait For The Beeeep (Interlude)" - 1:09 (Hami, LaToya McMoore, LaPetra McMoore, Monique Wilson, Arike Rice)
- "Library Card" - 5:05 (Geprge Blaine III, Stephen Brown)
- "M.M.D.R.N.F. (My Mama Didn't Raise No Fool)" - 4:36 (Hami)
- "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tears" - 5:04 (Hami, Alex Brown)
- "Always" - 4:37 (Thaddis L. Harrell Jr., Christopher Stewart, Gloria Stewart)
- "We Are Voices" - 4:15 (Hami)
- "I'll Wipe All Your Tears Away" - 4:27 (Price)
- "The Love You Save" - 4:04 (Berry Gordy Jr., Alphonso Mizell, Freddie PerrenFreddie PerrenFrederick "Freddie" Perren was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor best known for as a co-songwriter and co-producer of such mega-hits as "Boogie Fever" by the Sylvers, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches &...
, Deke Richards) - "Studio Chatter (Interlude)" - 1:08
- "Love Lives Right Next Door" - 4:11 (Karen Manno, Jonathan Rosen)
- "Blessed (The Praise Song)" - 3:46 (Alex Brown, Fred White)
- "Just The Beginning..." - 4:05 (L. Rice)
Voices
- LaToya McMoore: Vocals
- LaPetra McMoore: Vocals, RapRappingRapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
- Monique Wilson: Vocals
- Arike Rice: Vocals
Additional Personnel
- Baby Boy: Keyboards, Drum Programming
- Dion Dobson: Sequencing
- Abdul "Hami" Hamid, Les Pierce: Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming
- Bill Johnston: SaxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Kevin Maloney: SynclavierSynclavierThe Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT. The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of...
& Keyboard Programming - Jo Marie Payton: Narration
Production
- Allowyn Price - Producer on track 1
- Elvin Bridges - Co-producer on tracks 1 and 3
- Michelle LeFleur- Co-producer on tracks 1 and 3
- Alex Brown - Producer on track 12, co-producer on tracks 3, 5 and 6
- Baby Boy - Producer on track 3
- Geo - Producer on track 3
- Fred White - Co-producer on track 12