Mission to Please is a 1996 album by The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

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 on Island Records

Island Records

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. This album was a return to commercial glory for the band in the years following their last platinum-certified album, 1983's Between the Sheets as it also was certified platinum based on the strength of the charted singles "Let's Lay Together", their first R. Kelly

R. Kelly

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 collaboration after the success of their duet together, "Down Low", the Babyface-composed ballad, "Tears", the Ronald

Ronald Isley

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 and Angela Winbush

Angela Winbush

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-duet collaboration, "Floatin' On Your Love", and the mid-'90s quiet storm radio staple, "Mission to Please You". Some of the success came off the fact that Ronald had cultivated a new image as the video villain, "Mr. Biggs", in a series of R. Kelly videos starting with "Down Low" helping to re-introduce the music of the Isley Brothers to a new generation of R&B fans. This is also noted as being the last album to feature youngest brother, Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley

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, as he would leave the group a year later due to diabetes and die on June 6, 2010.

Track listing

1. "Floatin' On Your Love" (duet with Angela Winbush
   Angela Winbush
   Angela Winbush is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter who rose to fame first in the 1980s R&B duo René & Angela, also scoring hits as a solo artist.-Early life and career:...
   
   ) – 4:09
2. "Whenever You're Ready" – 4:50
3. "Let's Lay Together" – 4:32
4. "Tears" – 4:45
5. "Can I Have a Kiss (For Old Time's Sake)?" – 4:46
6. "Mission to Please You" – 4:27
7. "Holding Back the Years" – 5:30
8. "Make Your Body Sing" – 4:06
9. "Let's Get Intimate" – 5:57
10. "Slow is the Way" – 4:55

Personnel

• Marvin Isley
• Ernie Isley
• Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley
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• Angela Winbush
  Angela Winbush
  Angela Winbush is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter who rose to fame first in the 1980s R&B duo René & Angela, also scoring hits as a solo artist.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Kenneth Edmonds
• Keith Sweat
  Keith Sweat
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• R. Kelly
  R. Kelly
  Robert Sylvester Kelly , better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play...
  
  
• 112
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   on floatin on your love (remix)
• Lil Kim on floatin on your love (remix)