Chapter 8 (album)

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Chapter 8

Studio album by Chapter 8

Released

1979

Recorded

1979

Derek Dirckson and Michael J. Powell

Chapter 8 chronology

Chapter 8
(1979)

This Love's for Real
(1985)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Chapter 8 is the 1979 debut album by the Detroit, Michigan-based group Chapter 8. It was their only album to include lead vocals from Anita Baker before she went on to solo stardom. The album for the company that was little noticed, except for the Baker-led single "Ready for Your Love".^[2]^[3]

Track listing

"Don't You Like It" - (Michael J. Powell) 4:46
"Ready For You Love" - (David Washington) 4:34
"Come On Dance With Me" - (Derek Dirckson) 3:43
"We Need Love" - (Powell) 5:46
"I Go Disco" - (Dirckson) 5:15
"I Just Wanna Be Your Girl" - (Powell) 5:07
"Come And Boogie" - (Powell, Washington) 3:54
"Let's Get Together" - (Powell) 3:38

Charts

Chart (1979)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs & Tape^[4]	132
Top Soul LPs (Billboard)^[4]	40

Singles

Year	Single	US R&B^[5]
1979	"I Just Wanna Be Your Girl"	81
1979	"Ready for You Love"	38
1980	"Don't You Like It"	55

Samples

"I Just Wanna Be Your Girl" in "1st of tha Month" by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony on their E 1999 Eternal album.^[6]

References

↑ "Chapter 8". Allmusic. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
↑ The soulful divas David Nathan - 1999 Page 348 "Chapter 8 spent the next few years playing gigs in and around the Motor City, building a solid reputation for its heady ... hit the streets in the fall of 1979 and yielded two R&B chart singles, "Ready for Your Love" and "I Just Want to Be Your Girl." "
↑ Stars of soul and rhythm & blues Lee Hildebrand - 1994 " In 1978, Baker joined a ten-piece club band called Chapter 8. ... album for the company that was little noticed, except for the Baker-led single "Ready for Your Love," which checked in at a modest number 38 on TOP ALBUMS Rapture (Elektra, ..."
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Chapter 8 US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
↑ "Chapter 8 US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
↑ "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1st of Tha Month sample of Chapter 8's I Just Wanna Be Your Girl". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2012-02-09.

External links

Chapter 8-Chapter 8 at Discogs

v t e Anita Baker

Studio albums	The Songstress Rapture Giving You the Best That I Got Compositions Rhythm of Love My Everything

Compilation albums	The Best of Anita Baker Sweet Love: The Very Best of Anita Baker

Holiday albums	Christmas Fantasy

Singles	"No More Tears" "Angel" "You're the Best Thing Yet" "Feel the Need" "Watch Your Step" "Sweet Love" "Caught Up in the Rapture" "Same Ole Love (365 Days a Year)" "No One in the World" "Ain't No Need to Worry" (with The Winans) "Giving You the Best That I Got" "Just Because" "Lead Me Into Love" "Talk to Me" "Soul Inspiration" "Fairy Tales" "Body and Soul" "I Apologize" "It's Been You" "You're My Everything" "How Does It Feel" "Serious" "Lately"

Tours	A Night of Rapture Tour Giving You the Best World Tour The Heat: Luther & Anita Tour Compositions World Tour Rhythm of Love World Tour Anita Live! An Evening with Anita Baker

Related topics	Discography Michael J. Powell Chapter 8 Chapter 8

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