Red Hot Rhythm & Blues

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Red Hot Rhythm & Blues
Red Hot Rhythm & Blues cover
Studio album by Diana Ross
Released May 1987
Recorded 1986-1987
Genre R&B/soul
Length N/A
Label RCA
Producer(s) Diana Ross, Luther Vandross
Diana Ross chronology
Eaten Alive
(1985)
Red Hot Rhythm & Blues
(1987)
Working Overtime
(1989)


Red Hot Rhythm & Blues is a 1987 album released by Diana Ross on the RCA label. The album was the last contractual album the singer released on RCA before heading back to Motown Records the end of the following year. The album yielded the top 20 R&B hit, "Dirty Looks" and included the Luther Vandross-produced "It's Hard for Me to Say". The album also included cover versions of several R&B classics, including The Bobbettes' "Mr. Lee" (which charted as a single in the UK), Jackie Ross' "Selfish One," Etta James' "Tell Mama," and The Drifters' "There Goes My Baby."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Cross My Heart"
  2. "Dirty Looks"
  3. "It's Hard for Me to Say"
  4. "Mr. Lee"
  5. "Selfish One"
  6. "Shine"
  7. "Shockwaves"
  8. "Stranger in Paradise"
  9. "Summertime"
  10. "Tell Mama"
  11. "Tell Me Again"
  12. "There Goes My Baby"