Emotional is the fourth album by R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 musician Jeffrey Osborne

Jeffrey Osborne

Jeffrey Linton Osborne is an American funk and R&B musician, songwriter, lyricist, and former lead singer of the band, L.T.D.-Early life and career:...

. Produced by Rod Temperton, Richard Perry, T. C. Campbell, and George Duke.

Emotional contains his biggest pop hit, "You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)". The track peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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, and number two on both the R&B and Adult Contemporary (AC) charts. Other tracks that charted include "In Your Eyes" (#15 AC, #82 R&B), "Soweto" (#11 Dance, #18 R&B), and "Room with a View" (#29 R&B). The album reached number five on the Billboard R&B Albums chart and number 27 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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Jason Elias of Allmusic.com (who praised previous albums by Osborne) called it "quite a disappointment".

Track listing

1. "We Belong to Love" (Rod Temperton
   Rod Temperton
   Rodney Lynn "Rod" Temperton is an English songwriter, record producer and musician most famous for writing a number of songs performed by Michael Jackson, including the title track of Jackson's Thriller, the biggest-selling album of all time.-Biography:As Temperton remembers music was in his bones...
   
   ) 4:35
2. "You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)
   You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)
   "You Should Be Mine " is a 1986 song by Jeffrey Osborne from the album Emotional. "The Woo Woo Song" is the title in parentheses because his little daughter did not know the exact title, she identified the song saying "Daddy, sing "The Woo Woo Song!" Jeffrey thus affectionately nicknamed the track...
   
   " (Andy Goldmark, Bruce Roberts
   Bruce Roberts (singer)
   Bruce Roberts is a singer and songwriter. In 1995 he released the album Intimacy which featured musical and vocal contributions by many notable artists...
   
   ) 4:26
3. "Soweto" (Elizabeth Lamers, Frank Musker, Hamish Stuart) 4:54
4. "In Your Eyes" (Dan Hill, Michael Masser
   Michael Masser
   Michael Masser , a former stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He attended the University of Illinois College of Law, but left to pursue his interest in music...
   
   ) 3:16
5. "Room With a View" (Adrienne Anderson, Eddie Schwartz) 4:07
6. "Who Would Have Guessed" (Osborne) 5:02
7. "Emotional" (David Bryant, Diane Warren
   Diane Warren
   Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
   
   ) 4:36
8. "A Second Chance" (George Duke
   George Duke
   George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...
   
   , Randy Goodrum
   Randy Goodrum
   Randy Goodrum is an American songwriter. Goodrum has written numerous popular songs, including Anne Murray's #1 hit "You Needed Me" and "Broken Hearted Me" , Michael Johnson's "Bluer Than Blue" , England Dan & John Ford Coley's "It's Sad to Belong" , Steve Perry's "Oh Sherrie" , DeBarge's "Who's...
   
   , Osborne) 4:38
9. "Love's Not Ready" (T.C. Campbell, Osborne) 4:01
10. "Come Midnight" (T.C. Campbell, Osborne) 4:56