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Girl You Know It's True

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Released
  
7 March 1989

Length
  
42:10

Artist
  
Milli Vanilli

Producer
  
Frank Farian

Recorded
  
1988

Label
  
Arista ARCD-8592

Release date
  
7 March 1989

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Girl You Know It's True (1989)
  
All or Nothing The U.S.-Remix Album (1989)

Genres
  
Pop music, Dance music, Hip hop music, Dance-pop, New jack swing

Awards
  
Juno Award for International Album of the Year

Similar
  
Milli Vanilli albums, Dance music albums

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Girl You Know It's True is a 1989 album that was the U.S. debut of German pop group Milli Vanilli.

Contents

In 1989, several songs from Milli Vanilli's Europe-only release All or Nothing were repackaged and retitled Girl You Know It's True. The album was a major success in America, producing five top-five hits, of which three hit the top position of the Billboard Hot 100. On January 1990, Girl You Know It's True was certified 6x platinum by the RIAA after spending eight weeks atop the Billboard Top 200. The album was also certified Diamond in Canada, denoting shipments of over a million units there. The success of the album earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Following the scandal that revealed that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan did not sing on their album exposed by Los Angeles Times journalist Chuck Philips, Arista Records dropped the act from its roster and deleted their album and its masters from their catalog, making it one of the largest-selling albums to ever be taken out of print. In addition, their Grammy was revoked, marking the first time a Grammy was ever rescinded from an artist.

In addition to including many of the tracks that originally appeared on All or Nothing in Europe, Girl You Know It's True featured several new tracks that did not make it onto the European album, including the hit single "Blame it on the Rain." In Europe, this tune instead appeared (albeit in an extended version) on the album All or Nothing - The U.S. Remix Album.

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Errors

The track order on the U.S. release is out of sequence with the listing printed on its cover art, and several tracks are listed with the wrong time. A few of the writers' credits are inconsistent with what is listed in external sources. The decision to replace some of the tracks for the U.S. release was made by Arista Records president Clive Davis, and Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus are incorrectly credited with the vocals.

Personnel

  • Rob Pilatus, Fab Morvan (aka "The Brothers of Soul") - visual performance
  • Jodie Rocco, Linda Rocco, Joan Faulkner, Felicia Taylor, The Jackson Singers, John Davis, Charles Shaw, Charles Christopher, Herbert Gebhard, Bimey Oberreit, Peter Rishavy, Brad Howell - vocals
  • P.G. Wilder, Pit Loew, Volker Barber - keyboards
  • Frank Farian - Roland Jupiter 8 and synthesizer programming
  • Peter Weihe, Jens Gad, Bruce Ingram - guitars
  • Mel Collins - saxophone
  • Curt Cress - drums, percussion
  • Dino Solera, Felice Civitareale, Franz Weyerer - horns; arranged by Dino Solera
  • Production

  • All music arranged by P.G. Wilder and Pit Loew
  • Produced by Frank Farian for Far Music Productions
  • Recorded and mixed by Tobias Freund, Bernd Berwanger, Norbert Janicke and Jens Seekamp at Far Studios
  • Songs

    1Girl You Know It's True4:13
    2Baby Don’t Forget My Number4:11
    3More Than You’ll Ever Know4:32

    References

    Girl You Know It's True Wikipedia