Hi-Five (album)

Hi-Five is the debut album by the American R&B vocal group Hi-Five. Released on September 25, 1990, The album peaked at number thirty eight on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Driven by the hit singles "I Just Can't Handle It" (R&B #10), "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" (#1 R&B/Pop), "I Can't Wait Another Minute" (R&B #1, Pop #8) and "Just Another Girlfriend" (R&B #41), the album received an RIAA platinum certification. Also, Hi-Five is the only album to feature original Hi-Five member Toriano Easley, who was later arrested for both first-degree murder (after a confrontation with an acquaintance) and manslaughter. Also, Easley had previously marked his both only single cover and music video appearances from the debut album with the group, "I Just Can't Handle It" before his expulsion from the group. Toriano is the co-lead singer on "The Way You Said Goodbye," "Rag Doll," "I Can't Wait Another Minute," and "I Know Love."^[2] In the video for "I Can't Wait Another Minute", Treston Irby (who is Easley's replacement) co-leads with Tony.

Background

The song, "Too Young" (in a single edit version), also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz N the Hood. It is the first recorded appearance of Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy who was 15 when this song was released, which he revealed in his book My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"I Just Can't Handle It"	Bernard Bell, Teddy Riley	Bell, Riley	4:32
2.	"Just Another Girlfriend"	Eric Foster White	White	4:01
3.	"I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)"	Riley, Bell, Dave Way	Riley, Bell, Way	5:49
4.	"Rag Doll"	Alvin Moody	Moody	4:39
5.	"I Can't Wait Another Minute"	White	White	5:03
6.	"Too Young"	Carl & Jean-Paul Bourelly, Roz Davis	Carl & Jean-Paul Bourelly	5:13
7.	"Merry-Go-Round"	Carl Bourelly, Kevin Johnson	C. Bourelly, Kevin Johnson	5:11
8.	"The Way You Said Goodbye"	White	White	4:41
9.	"Sweetheart"	Bourelly, Bourelly, Richards, Davis,	C. Bourelly	4:09
10.	"I Know Love"	William Walton	Watson, Frankie Smith	3:54
11.	"Just Another Girlfriend (Remix)"	White	White	4:07

Personnel

Hi-Five

Tony Thompson – harmony and backing vocals
Roderick Clark – harmony and backing vocals
Marcus Sanders – harmony and backing vocals
Toriano Easley – harmony and backing vocals
Russell Neal – harmony and backing vocals

Additional singers

Bernard Bell – backing vocals
Tim Cashion – backing vocals
Roiz Davis – backing vocals
Gordon Dukes – backing vocals
LaGaylia Frazier – backing vocals
Frederick Gordon – backing vocals
Dave Hollister – backing vocals
John James – backing vocals
Alvin Moody – backing vocals
Teddy Riley – backing vocals
Sean LaBreeze – backing vocals

Musicians

Carl Bourelly – keyboards, drum programming
William Walton – keyboards, drum programming
Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitars, keyboards
Fritz Cadet – guitar
Josh Grau – guitar
Frankie Smith – guitar
Vincent Henry – harmonica, saxophone
Kevin Johnson – keyboards, drums, percussion
Sean Richards – drum programming
Eric Foster White – keyboards, drum programming, trombone
DeVante Swing – mixing

References

↑ "Hi-Five". 25 September 1990 – via Amazon.
↑ "Marcus Sanders revisits Hi-Five's debut album - Return To The Classics - SoulCulture".
↑ Johnson, A.; Checkoway, L. (2012). My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy. Touchstone. p. 36. ISBN 9781439103197. Retrieved 2015-06-24.

External links

Hi-Five
Marcus Sanders Treston Irby Shannon Gill Faruq Evans Billy Covington Tony Thompson Terrence Murphy Russell Neal Roderick Clark Toriano Easley Deion Braxton Darrell Payne Dre Ramseur
Albums	Hi-Five Keep It Goin' On Faithful The Return
Compilations	Greatest Hits
Singles	"I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" "I Can't Wait Another Minute" "She's Playing Hard to Get" "Unconditional Love"

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