Try My Love is an 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...

 studio album by Táta Vega

Tata Vega

Táta Vega is an American vocalist whose career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres.-Early life:...

. It is her third solo album and was released on Motown's Tamla label in late 1978. While not as critically acclaimed as her two previous albums, it received the greatest success on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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's Pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 and R&B album charts. The double-sided single "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby/Get It Up For Love" hit the Top 20 on Billboard's Dance Music charts. "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" was also a hit on Billboard's R&B charts. It was her most successful single during her Motown years.

Track listing

The following is the track listing from the original vinyl LP. , the album has not been commercially released on CD

Compact Disc

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. The 12-inch version of "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" was released on Motown's 1996 compilation CD

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

, Funkology, Vol. 3: Dance Divas. "Get It Up for Love" was a cover

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of the Ned Doheny

Ned Doheny

Ned Doheny is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Malibu, California who has recorded five albums as well as performing on many albums by other artists including Don Henley and Glenn Frey of the Eagles, J.D...

 song, which appeared on his 1976 album, Hard Candy

Hard Candy (Ned Doheny album)

Hard Candy was the second solo album by Ned Doheny. It features his version of "Love of Your Own" which was also recorded with Stuart's Average White Band the same year. It also includes the original version of “Get It Up for Love” which was covered by Táta Vega in 1979...

. "Whopper Bopper Show Stopper" was a cover

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of the title track of the 1976 album by Jr. Walker & the All-Stars. The latter was written by All-Stars keyboardist Danny Saunders.

Side One:

1. "Come On and Try My Love" (David Jones, Jr./Wade Brown, Jr./Michael Margerum) - 3:20
2. "I Need You Now" (Brian Holland
   Brian Holland
   Brian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...
   
   /Edward Holland, Jr.
   Edward Holland, Jr.
   Edward Holland, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter and record producer....
   
   ) - 3:34*
3. "Get It Up for Love" (Ned Doheny
   Ned Doheny
   Ned Doheny is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Malibu, California who has recorded five albums as well as performing on many albums by other artists including Don Henley and Glenn Frey of the Eagles, J.D...
   
   ) - 6:09*
4. "If Love Must Go" (Will Jennings
   Will Jennings
   Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...
   
   ) - 4:11
5. "Magic Feeling" (Don Grusin
   Don Grusin
   Don Grusin , is an American songwriter, producer and keyboardist. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado and for a period of his life taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as well as at Foothill College, California before deciding to enter the music...
   
   /Dave Griffin/Claudio Slon
   Claudio Slon
   Claudio Slon was a notable Brazilian jazz drummer born in São Paulo, Brazil. He performed in a variety of Latin music genres, including Latin pop, Latin jazz, Brazilian pop and Easy pop....
   
   ) - 3:51*

Side Two:

1. "Gonna Do My Best to Love You" (Brenda Russell
   Brenda Russell
   Brenda Russell is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, dance, jazz and adult contemporary...
   
   /Brian Russell
   Bryan Russell
   Bryan Russell is an American record producer. His credits include artists such as Straylight Run, Envy on the Coast, The Academy Is, and Anterrabae, and has also worked on records with Coldplay, Dream Theater, Paul Simon, Blue Wolf and Steely Dan. He is currently living and working out of New...
   
   /David Foster
   David Foster
   David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
   
   ) - 4:23*
2. "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" (Harold Johnson/Gwen Cathey) - 4:21
3. "Whopper Bopper Show Stopper" (Daniel Saunders) - 3:15*
4. "In The Morning" (Marlo Henderson) - 4:15*

Production

• Producer: Winston Monseque (except *co-produced by Andre Fisher)
• Arranger: Al Johnson (except *arranged by Andre Fisher)
• Recording Engineers: Humberto Gatica & Kelly Kotera
• Mixing Engineer: Kelly Kotera
• Design: Norm Ung
• Photography: Suzanne Nyergas
• Lettering: Vigon Nahas Vigon
• Executive Producer & Personal Management: Winston Monseque

Background vocals

• Stephanie Spruill
• Yolande Howard
• Patti Brooks
  Pattie Brooks
  Pattie Brooks is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era. She was born in Fort Riley, Kansas to a military family. Her first break came in 1968 when she auditioned for the chorus on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". In the next decade she became a sought-after backing...
  
   (courtesy of Casablanca Records & Filmworks)
• Brenda Russell
  Brenda Russell
  Brenda Russell is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, dance, jazz and adult contemporary...
  
  (courtesy of Rocket Records)