Moving On is an album by the American vocalist, pianist and songwriter Oleta Adams

Oleta Adams

Oleta Adams is an American soul, jazz, and gospel singer and pianist.-Biography:Adams was born the daughter of a preacher and was raised with gospel music. In her youth her family moved to Yakima, Washington, which is sometimes shown as her place of birth.Before gaining her opportunity to perform,...

 and was released in 1995.

History

Moving On saw Adams move to a more straightforward R&B sound. Working with established R&B producers Vassal Benford

Vassal Benford

Vassal Gradington Benford III is an American record producer, executive and music industry executive. His body of work has included 57 Platinum Records awarded by the RIAA certified, 8 Grammy Nominations, 11 Film Scores, 4 Television Syndications, Awards include a Grammy, several R&B awards, and a...

 (Rebbie Jackson

Rebbie Jackson

Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Brown is an American singer professionally known as Rebbie Jackson . Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, she is the eldest child of the Jackson family of musicians...

, Jade

Jade (U.S. band)

Jade was an R&B group active during the early to mid 1990s. The group consisted of Tonya Kelly, Joi Marshall, and Di Reed. During their brief yet successful career, Jade released two studio albums, one live album, and a string of popular R&B singles.-History:...

, Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton

Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide...

) or Michael J. Powell

Michael J. Powell

Michael J. Powell is an American R&B musician, record producer and arranger who is best known for his work as producer for eight time Grammy Award-winning soul / R&B vocalist Anita Baker....

 (Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford

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, Anita Baker

Anita Baker

Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....

, Regina Belle

Regina Belle

Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...

) helped mix her trademark soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

, adult contemporary and gospel

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 with R&B. Adams wrote or co-wrote six of the twelve songs on the album, and for the first time produced two of the songs.

Four singles were released from the album. The lead single, "Never Knew Love", was the most R&B-sounding song on the album, and gave Adams her fourth top 40 hit in the UK. The second single, a re-recorded and remixed song from her first album, "Rhythm Of Life" (only included in some editions of the album), gave her her last top 40 hit in the UK to date. The last two singles, the ballads "We Will Meet Again" and "Life Keeps Moving On", performed less well.

The album itself had limited success, peaking at #59 in the UK charts and at #194 in the US Billboard 200, and staying only one week on both. This was her last charting album on both countries' main chart. This underperformance led to this being her last studio album released through Fontana Records

Fontana Records

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.

Track listing

Three editions with different track listings were released:

USA CD

1. "Never Knew Love" (Kathy Wakefield, Oleta Adams, Vassal Benford) – 3:22
2. "Once In A Lifetime" (Wakefield, Adams, Benford) – 5:24
3. "I Knew You When" (Donny Kees, Shawna Harrington-Burkhart) – 4:20
4. "You Need To Be Loved" (Adams) – 4:41
5. "Slow Motion" (Ed Fox, Evan Pace) – 5:13
6. "We Will Meet Again" (Allan Rich, Brenda Russell) – 4:47
7. "This Is Real" (Curtiss Boone, Michael J. Powell) – 5:02
8. "Life Keeps Moving On" (Adams) – 5:32
9. "Long Distance Love" (Lowell George) – 4:15
10. "Love Begins At Home" (Allan Rich, Jud Friedman, Adams) – 4:51
11. "If This Love Should Ever End" (Boone, Powell) - 4:45
12. "New Star" (Adams) - 4:17

European CD

1. "Never Knew Love" (Kathy Wakefield, Oleta Adams, Vassal Benford) – 3:22
2. "Once In A Lifetime" (Wakefield, Adams, Benford) – 5:24
3. "I Knew You When" (Donny Kees, Shawna Harrington-Burkhart) – 4:20
4. "You Need To Be Loved" (Adams) – 4:41
5. "Slow Motion" (Ed Fox, Evan Pace) – 5:13
6. "We Will Meet Again" (Allan Rich, Brenda Russell) – 4:47
7. "This Is Real" (Curtiss Boone, Michael J. Powell) – 5:02
8. "Life Keeps Moving On" (Adams) – 5:32
9. "Long Distance Love" (Lowell George) – 4:15
10. "Love Begins At Home" (Allan Rich, Jud Friedman, Adams) – 4:51
11. "If This Love Should Ever End" (Boone, Powell) - 4:45
12. "New Star" (Adams) - 4:17
13. "Between Hello And Goodbye" (George Lyter, Michael O'Hara, Denise Rich) - (6:11)
14. "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
    Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
    "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is the first single from British musician Elton John's 1974 album Caribou; it was released that year during the latter half of May in the United Kingdom, and on 10 June in the United States.-Lyrics and music:...
    
    " (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - (5:53)^*

^*Originally released in 1991 on the album Two Rooms and released as a single, but never included on an Adams album to that point.

European reissue CD

1. "Never Knew Love" (Kathy Wakefield, Oleta Adams, Vassal Benford) – 3:22
2. "Once In A Lifetime" (Wakefield, Adams, Benford) – 5:24
3. "I Knew You When" (Donny Kees, Shawna Harrington-Burkhart) – 4:20
4. "You Need To Be Loved" (Adams) – 4:41
5. "Slow Motion" (Ed Fox, Evan Pace) – 5:13
6. "We Will Meet Again" (Allan Rich, Brenda Russell) – 4:47
7. "This Is Real" (Curtiss Boone, Michael J. Powell) – 5:02
8. "Life Keeps Moving On" (Adams) – 5:32
9. "Long Distance Love" (Lowell George) – 4:15
10. "Love Begins At Home" (Allan Rich, Jud Friedman, Adams) – 4:51
11. "If This Love Should Ever End" (Boone, Powell) - 4:45
12. "New Star" (Adams) - 4:17
13. "Rhythm Of Life" (Phil Coxon Edit) (Nicky Holland, Roland Orzabal) - 5:17
14. "Never Knew Love" (Phil Coxon Edit) (Wakefield, Adams, Benford) - 4:04

Charts

Chart	Date	Position
Billboard album 200	1995	#194
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	1995	#49
Dutch album chart	1995	#14
UK album chart	1995	#59