Chemistry (Johnny Gill album)
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| Studio album by Johnny Gill | |||||
| Released | 1985 | ||||
| Recorded | 1984 - 1985 | ||||
| Genre | R&B | ||||
| Length | 36:03 | ||||
| Label | Atlantic | ||||
| Producer | Linda Creed | ||||
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"The Ballads of Johnny Gill" |
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Chemistry is the second solo album by singer Johnny Gill and features a fan favorite, "Half Crazy," written by noted Philadelphia songwriter/producer Linda Creed.
Richard Harrington of the Washington Post wrote, "Gill is 18. He just sounds older. On his recent hit single "Half Crazy," Gill's husky, powerful baritone would lead to you to think he'd been around the love wars long enough to do some postgraduate work. But the cover photo for his "Chemistry" album and the "Half Crazy" video show a slightly-built kid with a soft, innocent stare, looking like he just got out of high school. Which he has...For his new album he was teamed with veteran producer and songwriter Linda Creed, who had worked with Thom Bell on the Delfonics', Stylistics' and Spinners' recordings but dropped out of the business for five years to raise her family...That new combination, he feels, is going to put him that much closer to his dream: 'to sell 40 million copies like Michael and then get into the movies.' Luckily Gill's strengths as a ballad singer coincide with commercial radio's currently receptive attitude toward medium tempo, romantic material...But will the world go along with a ballad singer who's so young? 'That's what we've all got to find out very soon,' Gill says evenly. 'I know this one may not go gold. But I'm going to spray paint it.'"
--Excerpted from "The Ballads of Johnny Gill," Washington Post, June 22, 1985
[edit] Track listing
- Half Crazy
- Can't Wait Til Tomorrow
- Don't Take Away My Pride
- One Small Light
- The Way That You Love Me
- Because of You
- Chemistry
- I Found Love
[edit] Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1985 | Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums | 51 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Song | Chart | Position |
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| 1985 | Can't Wait Til Tomorrow | Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks | 59 |
| 1985 | Half Crazy | Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks | 26 |
| 2002 | Half Crazy | Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks | 69 |
[edit] Album Credits
- Johnny Gill – Vocals, Main Performer
- Linda Creed – Vocals (Background), Producer
- Scott MacMinn – Assistant Engineer
- Michael Mason – Overdubs, Drum Programming, Assistant Engineer
- Dennis Matkosky – Synthesizer, Rhythm Arrangements, Producer
- Reggie McBride – Bass
- Sy Mitchell – Engineer
- Bill Neale – Guitar, Conductor, Guitar (12 String), Producer, Rhythm Arrangements
- Ray Neapolitan – Bass
- Darryl Phinnessee – Vocals (Background)
- Marc Russo – Saxophone
- Danny Sembello – Synthesizer
- Monty Seward – Synthesizer, Vocals (Background)
- Neil Stubenhaus – Bass
- Joe Tarsia – Engineer
- Howard Lee Wolen – Mixing
- Richard Wolf – Songwriter
- Casey Young – Synthesizer
- Jay Willis – Assistant Engineer
- Thom Wilson – Engineer, Mixing
- David Koenig – Assistant Engineer
- Clyde Kaplan – Assistant Engineer
- Joe Borja – Assistant Engineer
- Frank Moscati – Photography
- Zal Schreiber – Mastering
- Robert Lagarza – Assistant Engineer
- Glen McKee – Assistant Engineer
- Audrey Satterwhite – Art Direction
- Rob Weaver – Assistant Engineer
- Barry Craig – Assistant Engineer
- Lonnie Jordan – Vocals (Background)
- Gene Page – Conductor, String Arrangements
- Jeff Baxter – Guitar, Guitar (Synthesizer)
- Les Brockman – Engineer
- Paulinho Da Costa – Percussion
- Lynn Davis – Vocals (Background)
- Don Renaldo – Concert Master
- Russell Ferrante – Piano, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Jim Gilstrap – Vocals (Background)
- Kevin Grady – Synthesizer
- Gary Grant – Trumpet
- Jerry Hey – Trumpet, Horn Arrangements
- Alan Hirshberg – Engineer
- Paul Jackson, Jr. – Guitar
- Louis Johnson – Bass
- Abraham Laboriel – Bass
- Ricky Lawson – Drums
- Edie Lehmann – Vocals (Background)
- Gene Leone – Engineer
- Stewart Levine – Synthesizer
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – Trombone
