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Released
  
May 10, 1988

Joy (1988)
  
Truly Blessed (1991)

Release date
  
10 May 1988

Genre
  
Rhythm and blues

Length
  
45:18

Artist
  
Teddy Pendergrass

Label
  
Elektra Records

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Recorded
  
QCA Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio; Kajem/Victory Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California

Producers
  
Teddy Pendergrass, Miles Jaye, Nick Martinelli

Similar
  
Teddy Pendergrass albums, Rhythm and blues albums

Joy is the tenth studio album by R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, released in 1988 on the Elektra label. Production credits on the album were split between Reggie and Vincent Calloway, Nick Martinelli, Miles Jaye and Pendergrass himself.

Contents

Joy peaked at #54 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the R&B chart, Pendergrass' highest placing on this chart since 1979's #1 album Teddy. The album also spawned two top three R&B singles in the chart-topping title track (Pendergrass' second solo R&B #1, following "Close the Door" in 1978) and "2 A.M." (#3). It was also the only solo Pendergrass album to reach the top 50 in the UK.

Teddy pendergrass joy


Track listing

  1. "Joy" (Reggie Calloway, Vincent Calloway, Joel Davis) - 6:18
  2. "2 A.M" (James S. Carter, Kevin J. Askins, Marvin Hammett) - 5:25
  3. "Good to You" (Miles Jaye) - 5:13
  4. "I'm Ready" (Jaye) - 5:12
  5. "Love Is the Power" (R. Calloway, V. Calloway, Davis) - 6:16
  6. "This Is the Last Time" (Gabriel Hardeman, Annette Hardeman) - 6:27
  7. "Through the Falling Rain (Love Story)" (Carter, Askins, Hammett) - 4:58
  8. "Can We Be Lovers" (Carter, Freddie Williams) - 5:29

Personnel

  • Teddy Pendergrass - lead vocals
  • Charlene Hollaway, Cynthia Biggs, Annette Hardeman, Elizabeth Hogue, Tenita Jordan - backing vocals
  • Gene Robinson, Jeff Lee Johnson, Randy Bowland, William "Doc" Powell - guitar
  • Miles Jaye - bass guitar, percussion, synthesizers, violin
  • Joel Davis - keyboards
  • Jerry Hey, Gary Grant - trumpet
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. - trombone
  • Marc Russo - saxophone
  • Daryl Burgee, J. T. Lewis - drums
  • Randy Cantor - synthesizers, strings
  • Douglas Grigsby III, Tom Barney - bass guitar
  • Donald Robinson - Rhodes, piano
  • John "Skip" Anderson - electric piano

    • Songs

    1Joy6:22
    22 AM5:27
    3Good to You5:16

    References

    Joy (Teddy Pendergrass album) Wikipedia
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