Be Yourself (Patti LaBelle album)

Be Yourself
Studio album by Patti LaBelle
Released June 26, 1989
Recorded 1988–1989
Genre Soul, pop, new jack swing, R&B, dance-pop
Length 53:38
Label MCA
Producer Full Force, Prince, Narada Michael Walden, Carole Bayer Sager, Burt Bacharach, Stewart Levine
Patti LaBelle chronology
Winner in You
(1986)		 Be Yourself
(1989)		 This Christmas
(1990)
Singles from Be Yourself
  1. "If You Asked Me To"
    Released: June 12, 1989
  2. "Yo Mister"
    Released: July 1989
  3. "I Can't Complain"
    Released: 1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Chicago Tribune[2]
Rolling Stone[3]
Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews[4]

Be Yourself marked Patti LaBelle's ninth solo album and her first since 1986's platinum hit, Winner in You, released in 1989 on the MCA label, her second album with the company. The album featured the popular singles, "If You Asked Me To" (a US R&B top 10 single by LaBelle, later covered by Celine Dion), which was also featured on the James Bond soundtrack to the movie, Licence to Kill and the top ten Prince-written hit, "Yo Mister". The album marked LaBelle's forays into new jack swing music with the tracks, "I Got It Like That", produced by Full Force and the aforementioned "Yo Mister".

Track listing

  1. "If You Asked Me To" – 3:58 (Diane Warren)
  2. "I Can't Complain" – 5:08 (Sami McKinney, Raymond Jones)
  3. "Be Yourself" – 5:40 (Bunny Hull, Thelma Houston, Jeff Hull)
  4. "Yo Mister" – 5:08 (Prince)
  5. "I Got It Like That" – 5:38 (Full Force)
  6. "Love 89" – 5:09 (Prince, Sheena Easton)
  7. "Still in Love" – 4:36 (Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen)
  8. "I'm Scared of You" – 4:46 (Allan Dennis Rich, Alan Roy Scott)
  9. "Can't Bring Me Down" – 4:13 (Tena Clark, Gary Prim)
  10. "Need a Little Faith" – 4:00 (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager)
  11. "I Can Fly" – 5:22 (Theodore McLean, Budd Ellison, Patti LaBelle)

Personnel & Production[5]

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Chicago Tribune review
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone score list
  4. ↑ Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews review
  5. ↑ Personnel & Production at discogs
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