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Candy Rain (album)

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Released
  
March 28, 1995

Length
  
44:47

Recorded
  
1994 - 1995

Label
  
Uptown/MCA

Genre
  
R&B, Hip hop soul, New jack swing

Producer
  
Andre Harrell (exec.), Heavy D (exec.), Trackmasters, Kenny Greene, Dave Cintron

Candy Rain is the debut studio album from American R&B group Soul for Real, released March 28, 1995 on Uptown Records and distributed through MCA Records.

Contents

The album peaked at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200 chart. By August 1995 it was certified platinum in sales by the RIAA after sales exceeding one million copies in the United States.

Release and reception

Candy Rain peaked at twenty-three on the United States Billboard 200 and number five on the R&B Albums chart. The album was certified platinum by August 1995.

While Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic did call the group "undoubtedly fine singers," he didn't feel they were strong enough to make some of the weaker material on the album very convincing.

Singles

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Personnel

Information taken from Allmusic.

  • arranging – Heavy D, Terri Robinson
  • art direction – Brett Wright
  • assistant engineering – Ben Arindell, Chris Curran, Steve Sisco, Matt Tuffli
  • assistant mixing – Steve Sisco, Matt Tuffli
  • bass – Terri Robinson
  • composing – Pete Belasco
  • drum programming – Poke
  • engineering – Bill Esses, Mikael Ifuersen, Richard Travali
  • executive production – Andre Harrell, Heavy D
  • guitar – James E. Rohlehr
  • keyboards – Dave Cintron, Alexander Richbourg
  • loops – Poke
  • make-up – Melanie Harris
  • mastering – Michael Sarsfield
  • mixing – Bill Esses, Tony Maserati, Richard Travali
  • photography – Mark Contratto
  • production – Heavy D, Poke, Red Hot Lover Tone
  • production coordination – Debra Young
  • saxophone – Sylvester Scott
  • vocal arrangement – Kenny Greene
  • vocals – Andre Dalyrimple, Brian Dalyrimple, Christopher Dalyrimple, Jason Dalyrimple, Terri Robinson
  • vocals (background) – Desiree Dalyrimple, Nicole Dalyrimple, Kenny Greene, Red Hot Lover Tone, Terri Robinson
  • vocoder – Dave Cintron, Darin Whittington
  • References

    Candy Rain (album) Wikipedia