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The new jack-meets-gospel production style of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis helped Sounds of Blackness place three singles ("Optimistic," "The Pressure," "Testify") from 1991's Evolution of Gospel high on the pop charts, and truthfully, that album still stands as the best introduction to the Sounds of Blackness collective. Which is not meant to disparage anthologies such as this one, which collects all three of the big hits as well as interesting revisits to Sly Stone's "You Can Make It if You Try" and Gamble & Huff's "Love Train," but as a group dedicated to presenting the full spectrum of African-American music, Sounds of Blackness got it exactly right on Evolution of Gospel. Start there.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer, ComposerLyricist - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Prof t., MainArtist - Gary Hines, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Gary Hines, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 A&M Records
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Gary Hines, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 A&M Records
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Carrie Harrington, ComposerLyricist - Gary Hines, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 A&M Records
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer, Executive Producer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, Executive Producer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist - Gary Hines, Producer
℗ 1991 A&M Records
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist - Gary Hines, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 A&M Records
Leroy Bonner, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Jones, ComposerLyricist - Ralph Middlebrooks, ComposerLyricist - Marvin Pierce, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Noland, ComposerLyricist - Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Gregory A. Webster, ComposerLyricist - JIMMY JAM, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist - Juni Morrison, ComposerLyricist - Norman Bruce Napier, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer, Executive Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, Executive Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - James Quenton Wright, ComposerLyricist - Ann Bennett-Nesby, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer, Executive Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, Executive Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer, Executive Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, Executive Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Craig Mack, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Billy Steele, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Levi Seacer Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Darren Rust, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Levi Seacer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Travelli, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Loomis, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Billy Steele, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Levi Seacer Jr., Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Alan Hughes, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Vinicius De Moraes, ComposerLyricist - António Carlos Jobim, ComposerLyricist - Gary Hines, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Patricia Lacy, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kenneth Gamble, ComposerLyricist - Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - LEON HUFF, ComposerLyricist - Billy Steele, Producer - Levi Seacer Jr., Producer - Joe Powell, Producer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - Sly Stone, ComposerLyricist - Gary Hines, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist - Carrie Harrington, Producer - Jimmy Wright, ComposerLyricist - Ann Bennett-Nesby, ComposerLyricist - Jamecia Bennett, ComposerLyricist - Bradley Yost, Producer
℗ 1992 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sounds of Blackness, MainArtist - JIMMY JAM, Producer - TERRY LEWIS, Producer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES HARRIS, ComposerLyricist - Gary Hines, Producer - Frankie Knuckles, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The new jack-meets-gospel production style of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis helped Sounds of Blackness place three singles ("Optimistic," "The Pressure," "Testify") from 1991's Evolution of Gospel high on the pop charts, and truthfully, that album still stands as the best introduction to the Sounds of Blackness collective. Which is not meant to disparage anthologies such as this one, which collects all three of the big hits as well as interesting revisits to Sly Stone's "You Can Make It if You Try" and Gamble & Huff's "Love Train," but as a group dedicated to presenting the full spectrum of African-American music, Sounds of Blackness got it exactly right on Evolution of Gospel. Start there.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:15
- Main artists: Sounds of Blackness
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Spectrum
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2003 Spectrum Music This Compilation ℗ 2003 Spectrum Music
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