Track Listing
1. Safe
2. As a Matter of Fact
3. Rest of the Night, The
4. Miss You Like Crazy
5. I Do - (featuring Freddie Jackson)
6. Good To Be Back
7. Gonna Make You Mine
8. Starting Over Again
9. Don't Mention My Heartache
10. I Can't Cry
11. Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Freddie Jackson | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Natalie Cole, Freddy Jackson (vocals); Teddy Castellucci, Bob Cadway, Paul Jackson Jr., Dean Parks, Michael Thompson (guitar); Tom Scott (alto saxophone); Jimmy Roberts (tenor saxophone); David Woodford (baritone saxophone); Rick Braun (trumpet); Garrett Adkins (trombone); Robbie Buchanan (piano, Fender Rhodes); Charles Floyd (piano, synthesizer); Lee Curreri (piano, keyboards, programming); Jeff Scott (piano); Booker T. Jones (Hammond B-3 organ); Claude Goudette, Roman Johnson (keyboards, synthesizer); Walter Afanasieff (keyboards, synthesizers, bass, programming); Don Boyette (keyboards, synthesizer, bass); Rich Tancredi (keyboards); Ren Klyce, David Joyce (synthesizer); Paul Robinson, James Johnson, Mike Porcaro, Neil Stubenhaus (bass); Jeff Porcaro (drums, percussion); Rick Wake, Joe Franco, Armand Grimaldi, John Robinson (drums); Luis Conte, Paulhino DaCosta (percussion); Greg "Gigi" Gonaway (cymbals); Andre Fischer (brushes); Sam Ward, Steve Lindsey, Phil Shenale, Jeffrey Rona (programming); Eddie Cole (fingersnaps, background vocals); Katrina Perkins, David Joyce, Sandra Simmons, Shelly Peiken, Billy T. Scott, Jamillah Muhammad, The "N" Sisters (background vocals).
Producers include: Andre Fischer, Ric Wake, Michael Masser, Narada Michael Walden, Eddie Cole.
1989 Grammy winner for vocal performance.
Before Natalie Cole crossed over to a more mainstream audience by performing jazz-pop in the manner of her legendary late father Nat King Cole, she spent many years making music in a contemporary R&B vein. Her Grammy winning GOOD TO BE BACK (1989) is a fine example of Cole's skills as an R&B singer. The album's four singles--the buoyant "As a Matter of Fact" and the ballads "Starting Over Again," "Miss You Like Crazy," and the Freddie Jackson duet "I Do"--make the album a winner all on their own. The overall sound, which features prominent keyboards and drum programming, is vintage `80s, but will be warmly familiar to fans of that era's pop-oriented R&B.
Editorial Reviews
Which CD Performance 8 / Sound 9
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