Fragile (Cherrelle album)

Fragile
Studio album by Cherrelle
Released	April 8, 1984
Recorded	1983-84 at Creation Audio (Minneapolis) Larabee Sound & Studio Masters (Los Angeles) III Mile-John Lodge Studios & Fiddler Studios (Los Angeles)[1]
Genre	R&B soul dance-pop synthpop
Length	43:22
Label	Tabu CBS
Producer	Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis Michael Everitt Dunlap Isaac Suthers
Cherrelle chronology
Fragile (1984) High Priority (1985)

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allmusic	[2]

Fragile is the debut album by American singer Cherrelle. It was released on April 8, 1984 by Tabu Records and was the first of four records for the label (she would leave Tabu after the release of 1991's "The Woman I Am").

The album was mostly written, arranged and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (a/k/a Flyte Time Productions), and, under their guidance, she scored a smash R&B hit with "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On". The song reached number eight on the US R&B chart and number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

1. "Fragile...Handle With Care" (Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis) 6:02
2. "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (Jam, Lewis) 7:03
3. "Like I Will" (Jam, Lewis) 7:24
4. "I Will Wait For You" (Maxi Anderson, Isaac Suthers, Michael Everitt Dunlap) 3:44
5. "Who's It Gonna Be" (Harris, Lewis) 4:36
6. "Stay With Me" (Anderson, Dunlap, Bill Champlin) 4:03
7. "When You Look In My Eyes" (Harris, Lewis) 4:53
8. "I Need You Now" (Suthers, Danlap, Champlin, Dante) 4:58

Personnel and production^[3]

Tracks 1-3, 5 & 7

• Arranged & Produced By Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis For Flyte Tyme Productions
• Engineered & Mixed By Steve Wiese & Taavi Mote
• Additional Recording Engineers: Judy Clapp & Steve Hodge
• Jimmy Jam: Synthesizers, Synth Programming, Acoustic Piano, Drum Programming, Percussion, Backing Vocal
• Terry Lewis: Keyboards, Synthesizers, Electric Bass, Drum Programming, Backing Vocal
• Monte Moir: Synthesizers, Percussion, Backing Vocal
• David Eiland: Tuba, Saxophone
• Randy Jenkins, Lucia Newell, Gwendolyn Traylor: Backing Vocals

Tracks 4, 6 & 8

• Arranged & Produced By Michael Everitt Dunlap & Isaac Suthers, with additional vocal arrangements by Maxi Anderson
• Engineered By Robert Biles
• Assistant Engineers: Michael Gilbert, Dennis Woods & Kelvin Dixon
• Mixed By Mike Evans & Taavi Mote
• Michael Everitt Dunlap: Electric, Acoustic & Bass Guitars, Acoustic Piano, Drums, Backing Vocal
• Isaac Suthers: Synthesizers
• Eric Sylvester Daniels: Synthesizers, Fender Rhodes
• Ellis Smith: Electric & Acoustic Guitars
• Terry Santiel: Percussion
• Maxi Anderson, Bill Champlin, Tamara Champlin, Phyllis St. James, Randall Jenkins, Gwenche Macho: Backing Vocals

References

1. "Fragile" recording details
2. allmusic review
3. "Fragile" at discogs