It's Real is the title of the third full-length recording from R&B singer-songwriter James Ingram

James Ingram

James Ingram is an American soul musician. He is best known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards...

. It was released in 1989 on Quest/Warner Bros. Records, and features the smash hit single "I Don't Have the Heart", which peaked at number 1 for 1 week. It also features a remake of the classic song "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

(You Make Me Feel like) a Natural Woman

" A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her...

, re-written with different lyrics and entitled "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man".

Track listing

1. "It's Real" (Frank, Griffin, Hankerson, Ingram) 5:13
2. "I Wanna Come Back" (Gordon, Levert) 4:51
3. "Call On Me" (Ingram, Taylor) 4:03
4. "So Fine" (Ingram, Taylor) 4:04
5. "Love Come Down" (Griffin, Ingram) 5:40
6. "Baby Be Mine" (Bell, Ingram) 5:00
7. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man
   (You Make Me Feel like) a Natural Woman
   " A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her...
   
   " (Gerry Goffin
   Gerry Goffin
   Gerry Goffin is an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriting partner and first wife, Carole King. he has co-written six Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers.-Career:Goffin enlisted with the Marine Corps Reserve after graduating from...
   
   , Carol King
   Carol King
   Carol King may refer to* Carole King, American singer, songwriter and pianist* Carol Weiss King , progressive American human rights lawyer* Carol King, one of the murder victims of Charles Starkweather...
   
   , Jerry Wexler
   Jerry Wexler
   Gerald "Jerry" Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s...
   
   ) 5:04
8. "Love One Day At a Time" (Ingram, Seward) 4:31
9. "I Don't Have the Heart
   I Don't Have the Heart
   "I Don't Have the Heart" is the title of a #1 hit song that was written by Allan Rich and Jud Friedman and recorded by American pop-R&B singer James Ingram....
   
   " (Friedman, Rich) 4:14
10. "Someday We'll All Be Free" (Hathaway, Howard) 4:10
11. "When Was the Last Time the Music Made You Cry" (Ingram, Matosky, Wakefield) 4:57

Production

• Produced By Gene Griffin, Gerald Levert
  Gerald Levert
  Gerald Levert was an American R&B singer. Gerald Levert sang with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon in the R&B trio LeVert. He was also a part of LSG, an R&B supergroup comprising Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, and Levert...
  
  , Marc Gordon, James Ingram, Bernard Taylor, Thom Bell, Michael J. Powell, Monty Seward & Matkosky
• Engineered & Mixed By Dave Way, Mike Tarsia, Paul Ericksen, Steve Van Arden, Sidney Burton, Winston Johnson, Robert Loftus, Barney Perkins & Dennis Matkosky
• Mastered By Bernie Grundman

Personnel

• Drums: James Ingram, Ricky Lawson, Bernard Taylor
• Percussion: Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
  
• Bass: Thom Bell
  Thom Bell
  Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.-Biography:...
  
  , Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
  , Abe Laboriel, Freddie Washington
  Freddie Washington (bassist)
  "Ready" Freddie Washington is an American session bassist who has played with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Al Jarreau, Aaron Neville, Lionel Richie, Anita Baker, B.B...
  
  
• Guitars: Paul Jackson, Jr.
  Paul Jackson, Jr.
  Paul Jackson, Jr. is a fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musician...
  
  
• Keyboards: Thom Bell, Vernon D. Fails, Jud J. Friedman, James Ingram, Dennis Matosky, Monty Seward, Bernard Taylor, Aaron Zigman
• Keyboard Programming: Robbie Buchanan
  Robbie Buchanan
  Robbie Buchanan is a Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer.Buchanan began playing the piano at the age of 6. He acquired his first paying gig as a pianist at the age of 12 playing 6 nights a week in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. While still a teenager, Buchanan joined a band...
  
  
• Sequencing: Jim Salamone
• Saxophone: Gerald Albright
  Gerald Albright
  Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist.Albright has sold over 1,000,000 albums in the U.S. alone. His self-produced music features him on bass guitar, keyboards, flutes, drum programming, and background vocals.- Biography :...
  
  , Ernie Watts
  Ernie Watts
  Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...
  
  
• Horns: Jerry Hey
  Jerry Hey
  Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Thriller and the distinctive flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit Longer....
  
  , Dan Higgins, Larry Andrew Williams
• Strings arranged and conducted by Thom Bell
• Horn arrangements by Thom Bell & Jerry Hey
• Horns conducted by Thom Bell
• Backing Vocals: Bernard Bell, Reginald Bell, Carl Calwell, Jim Gilstrap
  Jim Gilstrap
  Jim Gilstrap is an American singer best known for his work as a session musician and his 1975 solo hit single "Swing Your Daddy", as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series Good Times.-Career:...
  
  , James Ingram, Josie James, Marva King, Marsha McClurkin, Monty Seward, Bernard Taylor