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Love Child (Sweet Sensation album)

Love Child is the second album released by the New York-based Latin freestyle trio Sweet Sensation. The album was released on April 15, 1990, by Atco Records and Atlantic Records. It is the follow-up to the group's platinum-selling 1988 debut album, Take It While It's Hot. Like its predecessor, Love Child had an up-tempo feel, but also included lavish R&B-styled ballads.

The album's title track is a cover version of the hit song by the Supremes. Sweet Sensation's version went to No. 15 on the Billboard dance chart and No. 13 on the Billboard pop chart. However, it was the album's second single that gave the group its biggest hit, "If Wishes Came True", a power ballad featuring vocals by Betty Lebron. The song spent one week at number one on Billboard's pop chart in September 1990, while reaching the top ten on Billboard's adult contemporary chart. The album spawned two more hit singles: "Each and Every Time" (No. 59) and "One Good Man". The album peaked at No. 78 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified platinum in 1991 by the RIAA.

Track listing

Personnel

Sweet Sensation

  • Betty LeBron – vocals
  • Margie Fernandez – vocals
  • Sheila Vega – vocals

With:

  • Audrey Wheeler – backing vocals, vocal arrangements (3, 5, 7)

Musicians

  • Mac Quayle – keyboard programming (1), arrangements (1)
  • Andy Marvel – additional keyboards (1), arrangements (1)
  • Phil Ashley – keyboards (2, 6), drum programming (2, 4, 9), keyboard programming (4, 9), arrangements (4, 9), programming (6)
  • Ken Cedar – keyboards (2), drum programming (2), arrangements (2)
  • Gary Henry – keyboards (2), drum programming (2), sweetening (3, 5), programming (7)
  • Bobby Khozouri – keyboards (3), programming (3), keyboard programming (5), drum programming (5)
  • Robbie Kilgore – sweetening (3, 5)
  • Jim Klein – additional keyboards (6), acoustic guitar (6)
  • Richard Joseph – programming (7)
  • Romeo J.D. – keyboard programming (8), drum programming (8)
  • Peter Schwartz – keyboard programming (8), drum programming (8)
  • Werner F. – guitars (1), acoustic guitar (4)
  • John Hart – guitars (1), acoustic guitar (8)
  • Russ De Salvo – all guitars (2, 9), electric guitars (4), guitar solo (7)
  • Bashiri Johnson – percussion (1, 6, 8)
  • Steve Thornton – percussion (1)
  • Charlie Dee Diaz – loops (3, 5)
  • Emedin Rivera – percussion (7)
  • Graham Hawthorne – percussion (9)
  • Barry Rogers – trombone (1)
  • King Shameek – scratches (3, 5)
  • Steve Peck – arrangements (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9)
  • Arnie Roman – arrangements (2)
  • Tony Terry – vocal arrangements (3, 5)
  • Andre Smith – vocal arrangements (7)

Production

  • Produced by Ted Currier and Steve Peck
  • Additional production by Charlie Dee Diaz
  • Executive producer: Cherrie Shepard
  • Engineers: Paul Berry, Richard Joseph, Steve Peck
  • Mixing: Ted Currier, Rod Hui, Jim Lyons, Steve Peck, Charlie Dee Diaz
  • Mastering: Ted Jensen

Charts

References