Turn on Your Radio is the sixth and final studio album by the Italian/U.S. ensemble Change

Change (band)

Change was an Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi...

. It was released in 1985 and reached number sixty-four on the US Billboard Black Albums

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 chart, and number thirty-nine on the UK Albums Chart

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. Turn on Your Radio includes the singles

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 "Let's Go Together", "Examination" (in Italy only), "Oh What A Feeling" and "Mutual Attraction".

The band recorded the songs for album at Morning Studios, Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy

Italy

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. The sessions were then taken to Atlantic Recording Studios, New York City

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 to be mixed. Receiving negative reviews the album was originally released as an LP

LP album

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 in April 1985. The album was released with two different artwork designs. The UK version released on Cooltempo Records

Cooltempo Records

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 was designed by Greg Porto and the photography was by Robert Lewis.

Reception

Turn on Your Radio received negative reviews by the majority of critics. Ron Wynn reviewing for Allmusic marked the absence of a strong soulful-lead vocalist such as former Change collaborators Luther Vandross

Luther Vandross

Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...

 or James Robinson as a flaw. "The leads throughout this session, even on the lone successful single, "Let's Go Together," were more efficient than distinctive.. Wynn also noted that the production had faltered describing the arrangements of Jacques Fred Petrus

Jacques Fred Petrus

Jacques Fred Petrus was a French-Italian businessman and a pioneer of Italian Disco music.-Early years:...

 as "recycled" takes on what had "once made the group a major act".

Track listing

Personnel

• Jacques Fred Petrus
  Jacques Fred Petrus
  Jacques Fred Petrus was a French-Italian businessman and a pioneer of Italian Disco music.-Early years:...
  
   - Producer, Executive Producer (for Little Macho Music Co. Inc.)
• Timmy Allen - Co-Producer

• Timmy Allen - Bass, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Background Vocals
• Rick Brennen - Lead Vocals, Background Vocals
• Deborah Cooper
  Deborah Cooper
  Deborah Cooper is a female, part African American, professional dance music singer, award winning composer and entertainer, with several number one and top charting dance music and house music hits.-History:...
  
   - Lead Vocals, Background Vocals
• Vince Henry - Guitar, Saxophone
• Michael Campbell - Guitar, Assistant Rhythm Track Arranger

Recorded at Morning Studios, Milan, Italy.
Mixed at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York City.

• Carl Beatty - Mixing Engineer
• Dennis King - Mastering Engineer
• Robert Lewis - Photography
• Greg Porto - Cover Illustration (UK version)

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
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