Guaranteed (album)
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Guaranteed, released in 1992, is the third solo album by R&B singer Morris Day
. Released five years after his previous album, Guaranteed is a notable step away from previous efforts. Focusing on hip-hop, the album has much more input from outside producers and composers. Day even cut off his trademark permed hair to focus on appealing to a younger crowd. The experiment was a failure and the album fared poorly. It would be the only Morris Day album released in the 1990s, and last album for the next 12 years.
Morris Day
Morris E. Day is an American musician and composer. He is best known as the lead singer of The Time.-1970s and 1980s:...
. Released five years after his previous album, Guaranteed is a notable step away from previous efforts. Focusing on hip-hop, the album has much more input from outside producers and composers. Day even cut off his trademark permed hair to focus on appealing to a younger crowd. The experiment was a failure and the album fared poorly. It would be the only Morris Day album released in the 1990s, and last album for the next 12 years.
Track listing
- "Gimme What'cha Got" – 5:28 composed by Bernard BelleBernard BelleBernard Belle is an American composer, producer and musician. After starting his career as an R&B guitarist, Belle became known as a songwriter for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and a producer of gospel music.- Career :...
- "Circle of Love" – 4:17 composed by Sharon Barnes/Morris Day/Michael Stokes
- "Deeper" – 4:05 composed by Patrick Adams/Stanley Brown/Morris Day
- "My Special" – 3:42 composed by Patrick Adams/Skeff Anselm/Morris Day/Emmanuel Rahiem LeBlanc/James Mosley
- "Everlasting" – 5:01 composed by Sharon Barnes/Morris Day/Michael Stokes
- "Guaranteed" – 5:50 composed by Bernard Belle/Greg Curtis
- "Angels Don't" – 4:15 composed by Benjamin Belfield/Bernard Belle/Morris Day/Michael Stokes/Clint Stokes III
- "Changes" – 5:26 composed by Morris Day/Michael Stokes
- "Meant to Be Together" – 4:05 composed by Stanley Brown
- "Who's That Girl" – 4:33 composed by Sharon Barnes/John Bokowski/Morris Day/Michael Stokes
Personnel
- GuitarGuitaristA guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
– Charles Fearing, Emmanuel Rahiem LeBlanc, Kewko Vanderpuy - EngineeringAudio engineeringAn audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
– Frank Byron, F. Byron Clark, Foley Folie, Dante Gioia, Rich July, Brian Kinkay, Dennis Mitchell, Bruce Moore, John Parthum, Paris Robinson, Clint Stokes III, Michael Stokes, Boon Tan - KeyboardsKeyboardistA keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
– Houston Bowen, Josh Milan, Clint Stokes III, Michael Stokes, Gordon Williams - MasteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
– Bernie Grundman - MixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
– Bernard Belle, Frank Byron, F. Byron Clark, Brian Kinkay, Dennis Mitchell, John Parthum, Thom Russo, Boon Tan, Dave Way, Willie Will - Producer – Morris Day, Bernard Belle, Stanley Brown, Karen Jones, Benny Medina, Michael Stokes
- ProgrammingDrum machineA drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
– Skeff Anselm, John Bokowski, Gordon Williams - RapRappingRapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
– Big Daddy KaneBig Daddy KaneAntonio Hardy better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MC's in Hip Hop... - Vocals - Morris Day (lead), Patrick Adams, Judi Day, Alice Echols, Rick Nelson, Louis Price, Marsha Sapp, Linda Stokes, Spencer Washington