This album featured hit singles "Love Me Down" and "Circles". The album also contained the Sam Dees composition "Your Love Finally Ran Out", which was previously recorded by their then labelmate Les McCann under the title "So Your Love Finally Ran Out For Me" on his 1979 album Tall, Dark & Handsome.
Atlantic Starr hit its commercial peak in the late '80s, when the bland, insipid adult contemporary ballad "Always" soared to number one on both the pop and R&B charts.
That song put Atlantic Starr in the Whitney Houston/Lionel Richie realm -- in other words, people who associate Atlantic Starr with "Always" think of them as a crossover act.
But from an R&B standpoint (as opposed to a pop/adult contemporary standpoint), Atlantic Starr provided their best work in the early '80s, when Sharon Bryant was still on board and the East Coast residents were being produced by James Carmichael.
Released in 1982, Brilliance was the second of three albums that Carmichael produced for Atlantic Starr -- and it is also one of the band's finest and most essential releases. There is nothing not to like about this LP.
The soul ballads "Your Love Finally Ran Out" and "Let's Get Closer" are excellent, and so are up-tempo funk/dance numbers like "Sexy Dancer" and "Love Moves" (which features Wayne Lewis on lead vocals and has a Slave/Steve Arrington/Aurra type of appeal).
Brilliance, however, is best known for Bryant's soaring performance on the smash hit "Circles," which is one of those songs that is great on the dancefloor but is equally appealing if you want to simply sit down and listen to it.
Bryant also excels on the single "Love Me Down," which wasn't as big a hit as "Circles" (it reached number 14 on Billboard's R&B singles chart), but is still a fine medium-tempo item.
Side A
A1. Love Me Down - 4:50
A2. Sexy Dancer - 4:51
A3. Love Moves - 5:00
A4. Your Love Finally Ran Out - 4:47
Side B
B1. Circles - 4:52
B2. Let’s Get Closer - 5:23
B3. Perfect Love - 4:39
B4. You’re The One - 4:12
Personnel
- Clifford Archer – Bass
- Sharon Bryant – Lead & Backing Vocals
- James Anthony Carmichael – Producer
- Porter Carroll, Jr. – Drums, Backing Vocals
- Dave Cochran – Guitar
- Koran Daniels – Saxophone
- Calvin Harris – Engineer
- Albert Jones – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
- David Lewis – Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals
- John Mancebo Lewis – Trombone
- Wayne Lewis – Keyboards, Lead & Backing Vocals
- Greg Phillinganes – Synthesizer
- Joe Phillips – Percussion
- Damon Rentie – Tenor saxophone
- William Sudderth III – Trumpet
Notes
Release: 1982
Format: LP
Genre: Soul / Funk
Label: A&M Records
Catalog# AMLH 64883
Prijs: €10,00
Vinyl: Very Good
Cover: Very Good
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