Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Johnny Gill (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, programming); Stevie Wonder, Roger Troutman (vocals); Ronnie DeVoe (rap); Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, R. Kelly (various instruments); Tony Rich (acoustic guitar, programming, background vocals); Keith Andes (piano, synthesizer, programming); Al B. Sure! (keyboards, programming, background vocals); Troy Taylor (keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, background vocals); Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds (synthesizer, programming, background vocals); Jerome Jefferson, The Characters, Billy Steele (programming); Joseph Powell (programming, background vocals); Nathan East, Marc Jefferson, Nathan Watts (bass); Marc Nelson, Melvin Edmonds, Big Bub (background vocals). | | Producers include: Johnny Gill, R. Kelly, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Al B. Sure! | | Able to leap flawlessly from one vocal register to the next, Johnny Gill is his generation's Teddy Pendergrass. His sultry music evokes the soul that dominated R&B radio in the 1970s, and it returns a sense of maturity to the genre. Gill added a near-gospel flavor to HOME AGAIN, the reunion album by his old band, New Edition, and LET'S GET THE MOOD RIGHT, which arrived in stores less than a month later, finds him mastering the simple love song. | | There are old-school soul touches all over Gill's romantic crooning on this one. "Touch" is based on the O'Jays' "Cry Together," from which it heavily samples, and Gill ends up inhabiting the O'Jays' old turf. On "Simply Say I Love U," he duets with his friend Stevie Wonder. Producers Tony Rich, Babyface and R. Kelly surround Gill--who also plays guitar, bass and keyboards--with a gentle R&B sound that highlights Gill's talents that much more. |
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