Jeffrey Osborne (album)
Jeffrey Osborne is the self-titled debut album from Jeffrey Osborne, released in 1982 on A&M after leaving L.T.D. for a solo career.
Reception
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The album reached number 49 on the Billboard 200 albums chart along with two singles, "On The Wings Of Love" and "I Really Don't Need No Light", peaking at numbers 29 and 39 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Jeffrey Osborne wrote the lyrics for the former; Peter Schless composed the music. "On the Wings of Love" also reached number 23 on the Cash Box Top 100, number 7 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart, and number 11 in the UK. [2]
Track listing
- "New Love" (4:10) (Geoffrey Leib)
- "Eenie Meenie" (4:23) (Raymond Lee Pounds, Michael Sembello)
- "I Really Don't Need No Light" (3:40) (Jeffrey Osborne, David "Hawk" Wolinski)
- "On The Wings of Love" (4:00) (Osborne [lyrics], Peter Schless [music])
- "Ready for Your Love" (3:59) (Osborne, Ron Kersey)
- "Who You Talkin' To?" (3:51) (Osborne, Tony Maiden)
- "You Were Made to Love" (3:11) (Osborne, Len Ron Hanks)
- "Ain't Nothin' Missin" (4:09) (Osborne, Leib, Michael Dorian)
- "Baby" (4:18) (Osborne, Jamaal Franklin)
- "Congratulations" (2:56) (Osborne, Jeffrey Kerr)
Personnel
- Jeffrey Osborne - lead vocals (All tracks), background vocals (tracks 2-10), vocoder (6), vocal arrangements (All tracks), handclaps (5-6, 8), horn arrangements (5, 8), rhythm arrangements (1, 4-5, 7-10)
- Larry Williams - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 5-6, 8), All flutes (including piccolo- 10)
- George Duke - piano (tracks 1, 4, 8, 10), synthesizer (2-3, 7), piano solo (2), handclaps (5), vocoder (6), bells (7), horn arrangements (5, 8, 10), rhythm arrangements (1, 4, 8, 10) *Larry Graham - bass (tracks 6, 9)
- Bobby Lyle - Electric Piano (track 3)
- Bobby Martin - French horn (tracks 2, 10)
- David T. Walker - guitar (tracks 7, 9)
- Michael Sembello - guitar (tracks 1-4, 10), rhythm arrangements (2)
- John Barnes - electric piano (tracks 2, 7), organ (5)
- Paulinho Da Costa - percussion (tracks 2-3, 5-6, 8), handclaps (6, 8), cowbell (1)
- Lynn Davis - background vocals (tracks 3, 8-9)
- Charles Fearing - guitar (tracks 3, 5)
- Terry Smith - drums (All tracks)
- Gary Grant - trumpet (tracks 1, 5-6, 8, 10)
- Jerry Hey - trumpet (tracks 1, 5-6, 8, 10), horn arrangements (1, 5-6, 8)
- Louis Jordan - bass (tracks 1-3, 5, 7-8)
- Abraham Laboriel, Sr. - bass (tracks 4, 10)
- Arif Mardin - orchestration (track 10)
- Lew McCreary - trombone (tracks 1, 5-6, 8)
- Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone solo (track 1)
Charts
| Year |
Album |
Chart positions[3] |
| US |
US
R&B |
| 1982 |
Jeffrey Osborne |
49 |
3 |
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Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart positions[4] |
| US |
US
R&B |
US
Dance |
| 1982 |
"I Really Don't Need No Light" |
39 |
3 |
42 |
| "On The Wings Of Love" |
29 |
13 |
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